John Adams code poet

Becoming the CTO of Bringhub has offered me a lot of opportunity to set the technical direction of the company. Having been built on antiquated tech, we decided to expand our companies adoption of contemporary technology by converting fully to a Go based shop. Rewriting all of our services in a composable and scalable manner has allowed us to not only scale with incredible efficiency, but has also cut our costs by over 50%. Working with my bi-coastal team of developers has shown me that distance in a team is far from an inefficiency, but a huge benefit so long as you communicate :).

After contributing to the pre-seed proof of concept, I got the opportunity to not only join Bringhub, but to build out my own team here in sunny St. Petersburg, FL. Since joining up with Bringhub, my team has produced multiple products for Bringhub, from the SmartCart, to the SmartAd and Marketplace. Currently we're working on some pretty amazing projects with some pretty amazing partners.

Yes, I ended up back at PowerChord, though this time in a slightly different role. After consulting on a relatively large release, I was offered the position of Director of Engineering at PowerChord. This has been a great change, as it's enabled me to focus on creating a product-centric team with our new CTO Peter Quintas (formerly of Nomi). I was able to play with all the cool technologies, and successfully migrated my team away from the .Net stack. The new stack (fondly referred to as GAMA), consisted of golang, angular, mongo, and aws. This stack was proven to be a lot more fun and performant to develop in, and I thoroughly enjoyed working in it.

After deciding to take a break from PowerChord, and flex my muscles elsewhere, I spent a few months working with some friends on various pet projects. During this time I was introduced to some amazing technologies, equally amazing projects, and some unbelievably amazing people.
At first I spent some time with Fenario Group, serving as their Director of Engineering on a couple of product jobs. There we leveraged Windows Azure to create a solution to enable a client with a rather large application stack to offer their product as a SaaS solution. We also were responsible for creating a quick and easy time management application (then we discovered Harvest, lol).
I then had the opportunity to work with a great company called 64 labs. There I worked with their development team to create a mobilized version of Skullcandy, as well as Tractor supply company. In order to do this quickly and efficiently, all while having absolutely no access to their source, we leveraged Moovweb's awesome platform. This was my first introduction to what would eventually become my favorite language (golang).
I've kept on a couple of clients, mainly C1Bank and Bringhub. I try to keep things casual, but can't help getting excited about what both companies are doing in the product development world.

As Sr. Software Architect, my responsibilities include overseeing and directing the architecture of the company's various product lines. My role in research & development includes the creation of a digital signage platform, administered from an MVC/HTML5 web portal, and distributed to a network of computer-attached displays. Other projects include the creation of a mobile Business Intelligence web application, targeting iOS and Android devices, as well as working heavily with Google Analytics to implement custom KPIs and remarketing campaigns.

Responsibilities included managing onshore and offshore resources in order to consolidate four divergent code lines into a unified, unit-testable payments platform. Worked with remote teams and management to consolidate services as well as web applications. Utilized Microsoft's Unity to allow for easy decoupling of service and application tiers.

E-commerce framework development utilizing an entity based localization framework, integrated http modules for device detection, as well as bootstrapping requests and injecting dependencies. Framework was used to build SaaS solutions for multiple international clients.

Served as the lead Sr. Web Developer on the new client team. Developed marketing oriented sites for Dell, Walmart, and CVS. Developed a custom web-scraping platform to better integrate with the marketing teams from various clients. All applications were high traffic and public facing and required cross domain solutions to allow for shopping cart sharing.

Lead developer on airline business intelligence platform. Primary responsibilities included creating an administrative and reporting application, dealing with extremely high volumes of data to perform real time analysis of market, sales, and revenue data.

Served as one of two web developers tasked with converting legacy FoxPro applications to a web platform. Utilized jQuery UI, a custom Model-View-Adapter implementation, and SQL Server 2005 to create a rapid application development framework. Service tier was able to target WPF, ASP.Net, HTML, and Silverlight clients. Separation of concerns was implemented using PostSharp & Ninject.

Worked on two teams: Financial & Regulatory Systems (FARS) and Trading Systems. While on FARS, I served as a hybrid Business Analyst/Developer. I was responsible for maintaining a Funds Disbursements system written in Classic ASP, as well as being the lead Crystal Reports developer/admin. On the Trading Systems team, I was tasked with developing and maintaining custom trading platforms for both Fixed Income and the trade desk.