Sarah Ann Gay

• As the first employee, took a prototype built off of Fuse and implemented a working UI in less than 3 months that was delivered on time to the first client and used to sell to others.
  
  Developed the hiring plan to find junior engineers to join the team and eventually senior engineers. Grew the team to a strong foundation of 8.
  
  As acting engineering manager, ran all engineering meetings (all-hands, stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and was the go-to between ops.
  
  As acting engineering manager, prioritized and effectively calculated timelines to produce roadmaps while working as an IC with the rest of the team.
  
  Continued to be as transparent as possible about business decisions and changes to processes, and empathetically listened to any concerns or issues brought to me.

Actively worked on getting issues resolved whether it be personal or professional.

Prioritized team culture through the fast paced environment of a start-up.

Recognized a need for a product redesign after gaining more domain knowledge, hired a designer for the role, architected the redesign and delivered it within 4 days of the estimated release date. Redesign has been proven to be the right decision as it was used to double business.

Continued learning of the Generative AI space to better understand how to design and implement UI to help users feel comfortable, empowered, and safe.

Managed the internship program including the vetting, hiring, and mentoring process. Found ways to build projects around strengths and weaknesses and reached out to other members of the organization when subject matter was out of my comfort zone. Held weekly meetings to make sure the line of conversation stayed open and conducted daily check-ins to make sure the interns had what they needed.

As a member of the Operations team, built out quarterly newsletters, worked with employees to plan engagements for the organization as a whole, but also for smaller teams within the company. Did the research, planned out costs, and confirmed with others on the Operations team to make the engagements exciting and informative.

As the tech voice of the Operations team, provided insight into the ongoings of client and internship programs/projects.

Member of the core development team that designed and built NNData’s NNCompass software suite.

Designed and built user interface elements, data processing and ingest modules, statistical analytics packages and external system interconnection components. Served as scrum master for the team and made recommendations for additional/improved tools to include in our continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline.

Performed training for both employees and customers on the use of NNCompass.

As a member of the customer success team, assisted in the initial deployment of NNCompass in customer environments and performed/assisted with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflow development, mapping of source data types to target systems (schema mapping) and developed custom modules for access to proprietary APIs.

Lead Ruby on Rails Backend Engineer for Wellsite Report (https://www.wellsitereport.com).

Architected and implemented new data schemas to provide better analytics for well sites.

Integrated client data into Wellsitereport’s Postgres SQL database and wrote scripts to retrieve new datasets every morning.

Trained new employees on how to use Wellsitereport and the project structure.

Sole project manager, engineer, and maintainer for goShadow (https://www.goshadow.org) written in Ruby on Rails. Oversaw the project from conception to demo to delivery.

Java developer assigned to generate simulated United States Message Text Format (USMTF) messages for use in test and debugging of data ingest systems for military applications.

Message generation included the creation of classification marking in the correct Controlled Access Program Coordination Office (CAPCO) standard format which allowed customers to test their implementation of security identification and access control functionality.

Reverse engineered live websites to create REST API’s using both PHP and Node.JS.

Reengineered legacy PHP code to, the then new, Node.JS

The API’s were used for development of mobile e-commerce applications. Implemented Agile development and led the Backend Engineering team.

Mentored new employees and junior developers on the architecture on which the mobile websites were built. Held Node.JS classes after-hours for employees and individuals outside of Branding Brand.

Took a team of 6 to the first Node.js conference in California. Built demos to pitch to clients during sales meetings. Invited to Google’s headquarters in New York to learn Google Wallet implementation.

List of clients include, but are not limited to: Tumi Japan, Toys R Us, Ace Hardware, LuckyVitamin, Vitacost, Sephora, Hilton Hotels, Lucky Brand, Things Remembered, Cole Haan, Dermablend, Vince, and Poppin.