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RHETT FAHRNEY

Santa Ana,CA

Summary

Dynamic web developer focused on maximizing usability and functionality across diverse platforms. Expertise in collaborating with clients to translate visions into reality using cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless integration of design and user experience. Proven ability to brainstorm innovative features and oversee the journey from concept through design, development, and implementation. Skilled in optimizing databases for enhanced performance, architecting scalable microsystems, and developing high traffic commerce applications focusing on the end-user experience,

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering

AXS
07.2013 - Current

Company Overview: AXS is a global ticketing platform used by venues, teams, and events. It ticketing system can be used for primary and secondary seats as well as access control.

  • Developed and implemented strategic roadmaps for product development and technology integration.
  • Led engineering teams in delivering innovative solutions aligned with organizational goals.
  • Integrated with several payment systems and built tools to process bulk purchases and refunds.
  • Integrate with Fraud Prevention systems that pull tons of data points to assess the risk score of fraudulent purchases.
  • Built an automated reporting system to deliver scheduled emails to promoters, clients, and customers.
  • Architected tax software to calculate and apply the correct tax amount for dozens of different states and countries. This included being certified by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

VP of Engineering

OrderMark/NextBite
03.2017 - 11.2019

Company Overview: Ordermark is a company that aggregates food delivery services in to one POS tablet and database to aggregate sales, menu items and deliveries. Think of Doordash, Grubhub, UberEats, Postmates, and many more all in one system. Allowing all orders to be collected through a standard format to be printed on a thermal printer in the restaurant.

  • Architected a microservices system to integrate different food delivery services.
  • Led engineering teams to develop scalable software solutions for restaurant operations.
  • Mentored engineering staff, fostering professional growth and technical expertise.
  • Wrote custom parsing algorithms to parse incoming data into a standardized format to into a standardize an order ticket template.
  • Created real time dashboards to track sales, add/modify/remove menu items.

VP of Engineering

Pogoseat
01.2013 - 06.2016

Company Overview: Pogoseat is a web/mobile app that allows users to upgrade their seats at sporting events and music concerts. It also sells in experiences such as fan give aways, player meet and greets, and field access.

  • Drove product strategy to enhance platform capabilities and customer experience.
  • Worked with design and product to build out new user flows and upsells.
  • Architected and programmed the front and back end using microservices using React, PHP and NodeJS.
  • Integrated with over a dozen ticketing companies to pull in realtime inventory, reserve seats, purchase seats and perform an upgrade in their system. This included companies such as AXS, Ticketmaster, TopTix, Tickets.com, Eventbrite, Groupon.

Head of Technology and Product/Principal Engineer

TidePool
07.2011 - 11.2012

Company Overview: Tidepool was a personalized a gamified website that allowed users to take multiple interactive assessments to determine their personality types. After gathering this information they could learn more about themselves and how they can work better with other personality types. It also gave recommendations as to which group of colleagues would work well together.

  • Design a gamified assessment that used psychometrics to determine a user’s personalities, interests, and other dimensions.
  • Programmed the entire assessment front and back end on a LAMP stack with PHP, SQL, AS3, and Javascript with jQuery/AJAX.
  • Developed and maintained system architecture for high-performance applications.
  • Developed gameplay and site functionality including integration with major social networks
  • Created new features and algorithms that allowed for assessing team collaboration and effectiveness as well as projecting ideal candidates to add to a team.

Teaching Assistant

University of Southern California
06.2008 - 09.2012
  • Assisted developmental learning for high school and college students in the basic principals of engineering and programming in 5 different classes over 4 semesters.
  • Devised lesson plans and labs with the professor to foster critical thinking and hands on instruction.
  • Instructed and assisted students with lessons and labs for introduction to Java and HTML/JavaScript

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
05.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
05.2010

Skills

  • Java, C, C, C#, HTML, JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, Oracle, Sql Server
  • Parallel Programming, Multi-Threading programming, Caching, Actor Systems, Design Docs, AI, QA, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Agile, SumoLogic, DataDog, OpsGenie, Twillio, QueueIt, Graphana, Jira, Confluence, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, Octopus, Spinnaker, Bamboo, Kafka, Kinesis

Timeline

VP of Engineering

OrderMark/NextBite
03.2017 - 11.2019

Director of Engineering

AXS
07.2013 - Current

VP of Engineering

Pogoseat
01.2013 - 06.2016

Head of Technology and Product/Principal Engineer

TidePool
07.2011 - 11.2012

Teaching Assistant

University of Southern California
06.2008 - 09.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California

Hobbies and Interests

Being with family, Sports, Traveling, Snowboarding, Video Games, Board Games, Cooking, and New Experiences