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Full-Stack Software Engineer

Software Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
5+ years
Experience level
Mid-level
Available for
Full-time
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Customer focused software engineer and team leader with 5+ years of software development experience, as well as expertise in project management, software releases, Trust and Safety compliance and direct customer communication skills. Full-Stack Engineer adept with legacy PHP codebases. Listens to problems from customers and other developers and builds cross-functional teams and relationships to deliver solutions that improve both end-user and developer experiences.

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Employment History

Software Engineer III - Trust and Safety at Vimeo 2025 - 2026
● Maintained and developed internal moderation infrastructure for core Vimeo PHP platform, serving 200M+ users. ● Increased proactive detection layer by designing roadmap and implementing ThreatExchange via Hasher-Matcher-Actioner (HMA), an open source moderation tool designed to hash match violative content. ● Integrated third party moderation tool Cinder to improve moderation workflow and response times. ● Worked across legal and compliance teams to maintain DSA, GDPR, and other regulatory agency compliance. ● Developed and maintained microservices such as classifiers written in Go and hash matchers in Google Kubernetes Engine. ● Led weekly developer training focused on data structure and algorithms, technology trends, and developing team leadership skills.
Software Engineer, Trust and Safety at Automattic 2024 - 2025
Maintained and developed internal moderation tooling, user reporting flows, and backup systems for large legacy PHP codebase. ● Developed React-based internal moderation tool for Tumblr and WordPress.com which handled hundreds of reports each day. ● Wrote new API endpoints and extended backup systems used for account preservation during backups required for NCMEC reporting.
Engineering Manager, DevOps at Automattic 2023 - 2024
● Led team of five software engineers, including two apprentices, working on infrastructure for Jetpack’s suite of plugins in an open source WordPress plugin monorepo. ● Planned and led large-scale infrastructure project that reduced code and deployment duplication ensuring feature and dependency parity across platforms.
Software Engineer, DevOps at Automattic 2020 - 2023
● Improved developer experience for Jetpack developers by using Bash and Node.js scripting to create single-command repository set-up/installation process, setup new monorepo project templates, and automate changelog creation on pre-commit hooks. ● Improved plugin deployment velocity by overhauling release process from weekly to continuous delivery and improving deployment monitoring via Slack.
Technical Support Engineer at Automattic 2017 - 2020
● Handled hundreds of customer support requests monthly from WordPress.com users via live chat, email ticketing and video calls, specializing in domains and DNS issues. ● Led in-person workshops to train users in WordPress, HTML/CSS and accessibility. ● Developed Zendesk ticket integration by surfacing more relevant site information for support engineers.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Cinema at Binghamton University 2010 - 2013