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resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Vincent Ryan Taverna",
    "label": "Senior Staff Software Engineer",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(631) 312-4543",
    "url": "https://vincenttaverna.com",
    "image": "https://en.gravatar.com/userimage/8804025/dccab345e09b4e4327a9c66ef5bbd7f0.jpeg",
    "summary": "Senior engineering leader with extensive experience in full-stack development, infrastructure, and team leadership. Proven track record of scaling products, building teams from ground up, and driving technical initiatives. Expert in modern web technologies, cloud infrastructure, and engineering best practices. Skilled at balancing technical excellence with business objectives while mentoring engineers and establishing high-performing teams.",
    "location": {
      "city": "New York",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "New York"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "github",
        "username": "vinnymac",
        "url": "https://github.com/vinnymac"
      },
      {
        "network": "website",
        "url": "https://vincenttaverna.com"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Pointhound",
      "position": "Founding Staff Engineer",
      "startDate": "2024-04-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Built company engineering foundation from ground up, establishing best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment.",
        "Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with end-to-end testing and automated deployments.",
        "Unified infrastructure architecture across all services with monitoring and observability solutions.",
        "Designed and built AI-powered personalized email system delivering curated flight deals to customers.",
        "Trained machine learning models on flight deal data to identify and score high-value opportunities.",
        "Developed real-time flight alert system with SMS notifications for user-customized deal criteria.",
        "Built resilient web scrapers bypassing security measures to collect real-time flight deal data.",
        "Implemented comprehensive security measures to protect product from malicious scraping and abuse."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SeatGeek",
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2022-09-01",
      "endDate": "2024-04-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Led Infrastructure Web team, managing engineers and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.",
        "Spearheaded internationalization initiative, enabling SeatGeek website expansion into global markets.",
        "Led accessibility compliance project, ensuring website met A11y standards and WCAG guidelines.",
        "Collaborated with Lead Designer to architect and implement Uniform design system, unifying web development standards.",
        "Coordinated cross-company initiatives improving Core Web Vitals, reducing page load times and enhancing user experience.",
        "Drove API performance optimization efforts, reducing latency and improving overall system responsiveness.",
        "Established metrics and monitoring for critical funnel performance tracking."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vesta Home (acquired Feather)",
      "position": "Senior Staff Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2021-10-01",
      "endDate": "2022-09-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Enhanced CI/CD pipeline significantly improving developer experience and deployment velocity.",
        "Architected cloud environment provisioning system providing isolated stacks for each developer.",
        "Authored RFC and led migration from legacy ORM to modern development workflow.",
        "Planned and executed complete database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL with zero downtime.",
        "Established outage management and triage processes with automated alerting and on-call rotation.",
        "Introduced Go language to TypeScript-focused team with comprehensive RFC and prototype.",
        "Provided strategic technical guidance across all teams, aligning execution with product vision.",
        "Led code review forums establishing team standards and best practices.",
        "Mentored engineers on architecture design and career development."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Feather Home",
      "position": "Lead Operations Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-10-01",
      "endDate": "2021-10-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Implemented comprehensive role-based access control system across all user types.",
        "Deployed monitoring, observability, and alerting infrastructure for production systems.",
        "Established security best practices for engineering team and company-wide operations.",
        "Migrated legacy infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code running on AWS Fargate ECS.",
        "Built mobile application for warehouse operations enabling efficient inventory management.",
        "Implemented worker queue infrastructure with caching layer for improved performance.",
        "Won three consecutive company hackathons with innovative solutions.",
        "Migrated CI services achieving 4x improvement in build and deployment times.",
        "Improved team velocity through process optimization and rapid iteration cycles.",
        "Designed fair technical assessment process for engineering candidates.",
        "Integrated with Third Party Logistics providers enabling nationwide market expansion.",
        "Led GraphQL adoption initiative with code generation and improved developer workflow.",
        "Mentored team members through end-to-end project ownership and stakeholder engagement."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Life Biosciences",
      "position": "Platform Manager",
      "startDate": "2018-06-01",
      "endDate": "2019-10-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Successfully integrated Lua Technologies engineering team following acquisition.",
        "Delivered weekly technical presentations, workshops, and meetups while managing engineering team.",
        "Scaled platform horizontally achieving 1000x increase in concurrent user capacity.",
        "Defined product vision and technical roadmap for Life Biosciences platform.",
        "Established engineering best practices ensuring consistent and reliable development workflow.",
        "Automated laboratory workflows including PK Analysis from Mass Specs and cell plate readings using ETL pipelines.",
        "Audited laboratory software vendors and established AI partnerships including Berg in Boston.",
        "Migrated decade-old codebase from Ruby to Elixir and jQuery to React, modernizing platform for future development."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lua Technologies",
      "position": "Platform Manager",
      "startDate": "2016-10-01",
      "endDate": "2018-06-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Automated CI workflow for Electron desktop, frontend, and backend applications.",
        "Represented company at conferences advancing technology goals and team education.",
        "Prototyped React Native implementation assessing mobile development opportunities.",
        "Built CLI tools enhancing developer operations and engineering practices.",
        "Containerized application infrastructure enabling seamless CI and Kubernetes integration.",
        "Developed HIPAA-compliant video streaming single page application with mobile support.",
        "Integrated with Hospital Electronic Medical Records systems enabling secure communication for healthcare providers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lua Technologies",
      "position": "Lead Web Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-01-01",
      "endDate": "2016-10-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Upgraded Backbone and Marionette framework with comprehensive Jasmine test coverage.",
        "Migrated five single page applications to React with Redux state management.",
        "Resolved memory leaks and performance bottlenecks through systematic profiling.",
        "Implemented full-text search using ElasticSearch API.",
        "Optimized image processing with Web Workers for improved performance.",
        "Redesigned admin tools with enhanced user experience.",
        "Established Continuous Integration with Travis and Jenkins including automated testing and code coverage.",
        "Built Node stack with Webpack and Mocha delivering more reliable builds and fewer production bugs.",
        "Implemented source maps and error tracking with Sentry for production debugging.",
        "Created Phoenix and React platform for external messaging between doctors and hospice care workers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lua Technologies",
      "position": "Full Stack Engineer",
      "startDate": "2013-01-01",
      "endDate": "2014-01-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Built API for avatar and attachment processing including resize, crop, and upload functionality.",
        "Created and released BoxView.rb open source library for BoxView API integration.",
        "Implemented subscription service with Stripe payment processing and PDF receipt generation.",
        "Deployed Primus Node.js server for WebSocket push notifications.",
        "Created Vagrant and Ansible build tools for consistent development environments.",
        "Migrated Android project to Gradle and Android Studio.",
        "Established Android app deployment process.",
        "Implemented secure message and media upload via S3.",
        "Built messaging system for departments and individuals with file attachment support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vinnymac LLC",
      "position": "Self Employed",
      "startDate": "2004-01-01",
      "endDate": "2010-01-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Created and maintained network of popular gaming websites and forums.",
        "Scaled daily active users from 100k to 250k through optimization and community building.",
        "Generated over $50k in annual revenue."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Polytechnic Institute of New York University",
      "area": "Computer Engineering",
      "startDate": "2010-01-01",
      "endDate": "2011-12-31"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Suffolk County Community College",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "startDate": "2011-01-01",
      "endDate": "2013-12-31"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Frontend Development",
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "React",
        "Next.js",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Redux",
        "GraphQL"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend Development",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "Elixir",
        "Ruby",
        "Python",
        "Go",
        "C++",
        "REST APIs",
        "GraphQL",
        "Microservices"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mobile Development",
      "keywords": ["Android", "Java", "Kotlin", "React Native"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Database & Storage",
      "keywords": [
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MySQL",
        "Redis",
        "MongoDB",
        "ElasticSearch",
        "S3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud & Infrastructure",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "GCP",
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
        "Fargate ECS",
        "Infrastructure as Code",
        "Terraform"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevOps & CI/CD",
      "keywords": [
        "Git",
        "GitHub Actions",
        "Travis CI",
        "Jenkins",
        "GitLab CI",
        "Automated Testing",
        "Monitoring",
        "Observability"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Machine Learning & AI",
      "keywords": [
        "AI/ML Model Training",
        "Data Pipelines",
        "ETL",
        "Personalization"
      ]
    }
  ]
}