Hello There!
In a professional nutshell, I am a Software Engineer. I am a creative thinker. I am a problem solver. In the most recent years of my life I have formally been the Vice President of Programmatic Engineering for a company called Ads By Nimbus and the creator and designer of the Nimbus Ad Exchange. I am now currently the CTO of said company.
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If the above has left you with only a vague impression of who I am, here is a bit more historical context. I graduated from Susquehanna University on May 12 of 2013. I majored in Biology and Philosophy and graduated with honors in biological research. During my time at Susquehanna University I worked as Dr. Jack Holt's research assistant. I completed my senior research with Dr. Jack Holt on May 2013. The primary focus of the research was to describe the Susquehanna River's upper main stem located near Byers Island. My research focused on the types of algal communities present in the Susquehanna River. More specifically, I worked with phytoplankton and diatom-periphyton to access water quality. Taxonomic groups were classified to species level via the use of a light microscope and scanning electron microscope.
Afterwards I taught Python, Java, MIT app inventor, MIT Scratch, and robotics (Arduino) at Launch Math and Science Center located on 81st street and Amsterdam NY, NY. I was also responsible for developing a new Java curriculum. Outside of teaching I did research at the Museum of Natural History as a volunteer in molecular systematics biologist (bioinformatics mostly). I am proud to say that I worked closely with Dr. Ward C Wheeler and Dr. Prashant Sharma. Papers were published in the journal of Evolution and development of which I am second author. Those papers are linked in Linkedin.
In September 2015 I started my venture into Adtech at a little known SSP called PubGears. After the company was acquired I moved on to Timehop as a backend engineer for the mobile app itself. Shortly after joining I was tasked with helping the company monetize via ads and thus Nimbus was born.
If this still doesn’t give you a complete picture of who I am, that’s okay! Please reach out to me on Linkedin :-)
Areas of Expertise
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AdTech
Real Time Bidding (RTB), Supply Side Providers (SSP), Demand Side Provider (DSP), Exchanges, IAB
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Software Engineering
My GOTO languages; Go, Python, & C#
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Systems Architecture
Knowledgable in cloud based systems such as AWS, creating and maintaining pipelines, databases (SQL/No SQL), caching layers, micro service abstractions. I would say my forte is keeping things simple while building systems to scale efficiently.