Work Experience & Projects

CivicPlus (https://www.civicplus.com)

Developed municipal geospatial issue management and civic engagement software on the web team, building core SaaS products with a strong emphasis on Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development, and sustainable architecture.

Senior Software Engineer II

• Architected MCP server enabling autonomous chat agents to query and mutate production data through tool-based interfaces, reducing manual support workflows.
• Designed pgvector-based semantic search pipeline for RAG-powered municipal Q&A, integrating OpenAI embeddings with PostgreSQL for sub-second retrieval across thousands of public records.
• Drove multi-phase schema enforcement initiative across legacy Rails codebase, eliminating implicit type coercions and tightening data integrity constraints.
• Led Ruby 3.3.5/Rails 7.2.2 upgrade across multiple services, resolving breaking changes and ensuring backward compatibility.
• Reduced tech debt by deprecating legacy systems and migrating critical paths to modern service patterns.

Lead Software Engineer

• Set technical direction for 5-engineer team building civic engagement platform, conducting code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and driving sprint planning.
• Defined roadmap for Rails 7.0/Ruby 3.0 migrations, coordinating cross-team dependency upgrades and establishing rollout procedures.
• Architected data-processing pipelines for municipal GIS integrations using PostGIS and background job infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

• Built greenfield constituent messaging system supporting email, SMS, and in-app notifications with delivery tracking and template management.
• Developed municipal 311 issue management features including geospatial submission, routing, and resolution tracking with PostGIS-backed spatial queries.

Riley & Grey (https://www.rileygrey.com)

Developed with and led a team of three developers and two designers on features involving website template design, back-end services development/maintenance (API, payments, DevOps), website hosting, CI/testing/deployment and bug support (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Heroku).

Technical Lead

• Architected, developed and successfully launched the company's first physical product – a template-based paper stationery printing service, featuring in-browser stationery editor, proofing/shipping/e-commerce systems and back-end integration with paper printing provider (Ruby on Rails, ReactJS).

Software Engineer

• Developed company's core products: website hosting, domain provisioning, website templates, and RSVP/guest management.
• Developed internal customer support tools to automate various time-consuming support related tasks.
• Maintained, patched and upgraded all services/systems used in the company's technology stack (Ruby, Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.).

Friends & Family Foundry (https://www.friendsfamily.co)

Friends & Family is a socially conscious NYC based digital foundry that helps both large and small brands build and test new digital ideas extremely quickly, enabling companies to stay ahead of a rapidly changing digital world while empowering them toward a more innovative culture.