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Full-stack engineer with an emphasis on building scalable and maintainable architectures.Software Engineer @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Software Engineer @ From May 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 9 months) Tech Lead @ Technical management of six engineers between New York and Mumbai offices * Scaled email marketing subsystem to deliver 70,000,000 personalized messages...

Full-stack engineer with an emphasis on building scalable and maintainable architectures.Software Engineer @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Software Engineer @ From May 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 9 months) Tech Lead @ Technical management of six engineers between New York and Mumbai offices * Scaled email marketing subsystem to deliver 70,000,000 personalized messages per month * Cut systems spend by 50% while increasing overall performance through configuration tuning, consolidating small compute nodes and removing redundant capacity * Wrote specs and oversaw implementation strategy for building a subscription pricing model on top of points economy From January 2013 to May 2013 (5 months) Senior Engineer @ Performance and scalability architecture with an emphasis on providing accessible tools and patterns for junior engineers * Architected message threading backend to provide consistent read/write performance for users with varied inbox sizes and handle the throughput of 100,000 messages per day * Led performance initiative to improve data access patterns that reduced average application response time by more than 50% * Retrofitted CI process on top of legacy codebase through unit, functional and code-quality test suites * Authored and maintained a set of organization-wide coding standards and best practices From January 2012 to December 2012 (1 year) Junior Engineer @ Backend development to create full-featured application architecture and increase maintainability across the codebase * Implemented a RESTful API that powers the desktop/mobile sites and processes 1,000,000 requests daily * Designed a pub/sub notification system for app backend to decouple business logic from data propagation, logging, etc. * Built MVC architecture while allowing for interoperability with legacy codebase * Migrated server infrastructure from Media Temple VPS to Rackspace Cloud and built tools to support elastic scalability From September 2008 to December 2011 (3 years 4 months) Co-Founder / CTO @ Responsible for ideation and engineering across multiple product releases * Built iOS application architecture and managed team of three iOS engineers to complete MVP * Implemented web backend using CakePHP to manage user, check-in and location data * Architected collaborative filtering recommender system * Designed RESTful APIs for geospatial queries, activity feeds and recommendations * Integrated Foursquare API to sync check-in data and catalogue location information From January 2010 to March 2011 (1 year 3 months) Intern @ Full-stack development with emphasis on iterative frontend improvements * Participated in the TechStars curriculum, including lectures, mentor sessions and Demo Day * Designed, pitched and implemented complete visual redesign of the site * Integrated Facebook Connect API to automatically generate user and group profiles based on common interests From June 2008 to August 2008 (3 months) BA, Computer Science @ New York University From 2008 to 2012 Nicky Leach is skilled in: Scalability, MySQL, Start-ups, JavaScript, PHP, REST, MVC, Redis, Git, Bash, Unix, Nginx, Apache, Python, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Web Applications