Leading a group within the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council that works to identify opportunities for improving the functioning of the non-profit through process design and use of technology.
Helping government and non-profit teams improve their technology and processes.
start_date
2021-12-30
end_date
hours
20
employees
0
skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure DevOps
Django
Docker
Git
GitHub
Google Cloud
Heroku
JavaScript
Microsoft Azure
Python
Scrapy
Snowflake
Terraform
responsibilities
group
VoteAmerica
title
description
Expanded integrations between the voting registration tools, states, and schools. Also helped document systems and practices internally, while cleaning up unused code and applications.
url
https://www.voteamerica.com/
group
Cal-ITP
title
description
Helped streamline the process for transit riders in California to qualify for and receive discounts. Worked on indentity verfication, integrations, infrastructure, security, and privacy.
url
https://www.calitp.org/
group
Reinvent Albany
title
description
Have done a couple projects: one crawing the Empire State Development website to identify tables trapped in PDFs that should be released as machine-readable open data, the other pulling and preparing New York Senate bill and resolution data for analysis of changes in throughput.
url
https://reinventalbany.org/
group
Colorado Behavioral Health Administration
title
description
Improving DevOps and DataOps processes around the agency's data warehouse. Working through the Colorado Digital Service (CDS).
GS-15. Supervisory Information Technology (IT) Specialist in Information Security (INFOSEC). Led the Technology Portfolio, a team within the General Services Administration (GSA) that oversaw, managed, and coordinated everything technology-related that cut across TTS, as well as anything technology-related that would affect TTS from the outside. Particular focus on security, compliance, infrastructure, and tech policy.
start_date
2019-07-07
end_date
2021-10-01
hours
40
employees
11500
skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Docker
Git
GitHub
IT policy
JavaScript
security compliance
responsibilities
group
FAS Systems Governance Committee (FSGC)
title
Voting Member
description
Helped decide on and steer budgets for IT projects in the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). Drove the Committee from accepting multi-million-dollar budget requests to a phased funding process that encourages agile practices of being user-centered and delivering value quickly.
Served as a primary stakeholder representing 400 Mac users across the agency, advocating for the workstation needs of technical team members.
url
group
title
Authorizing Official
description
Was responsible for the security risk of ten systems across TTS, including cross-agency platforms like data.gov, Federalist, and search.gov.
url
organization
Upsolve
url
https://upsolve.org/
title
Freelancer
description
Improved development workflows and backend features of the site that helps people file for bankruptcy.
start_date
2019-06-10
end_date
2019-11-04
hours
8
employees
8
skills
Git
GitHub
JavaScript
Docker
organization
Brooklyn Rail
url
https://brooklynrail.org/
title
Advisory Board Member
description
Helped improve the infrastructure, workflow, and software use of this non-profit arts publication.
start_date
2019-01-07
end_date
2020-02-24
hours
5
employees
12
skills
Git
GitHub
MySQL
PHP
organization
xD
url
https://www.xd.gov/
title
Data Engineer
description
GS-15. Helped to "build experimental data products for the public good" with federal agencies from this startup within the Census Bureau. Worked with the CTO and Standards Working Group on a Bureau-wide Open Source Policy and various software approvals and process changes.
start_date
2018-09-02
end_date
2019-07-06
hours
40
employees
4300
skills
Git
GitHub
IT policy
Python
security compliance
responsibilities
group
Recalls
title
description
Worked with regulatory agencies and large companies to improve the quality, consistency, and delivery of federal recall data through their APIs.
url
https://www.usa.gov/recalls
group
Census Self-Response Red Team
title
description
To test the fraud / suspicious response detection systems for the 2020 Census, helped develop various scenarios and then create synthetic data to represent them.
Led a project to reduce the amount of time spent authoring, reviewing, and editing the security compliance documentation leading up to an Authority to Operate (ATO).
Helped the team identify security threats andconcerns around their software development, deployment, and operation. We then looked at the underlying problems and possible solutions for each. Tasks were then prioritized based on the ranking of the corresponding concern.
GS-15. Was a federal employee in the General Services Administration (GSA), working with internal and external government agency partners to modernize technology practices through multiple engagements. Served as a subject matter expert in development of custom web applications, DevSecOps, ATOs, and open source. Participated and led multiple user research sessions.
start_date
2014-10-20
end_date
2018-09-01
hours
40
employees
11500
skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ansible
CSS
Docker
Git
GitHub
Go
HTML
IT policy
JavaScript
Jekyll
Jenkins
management
Packer
PostgreSQL
public speaking
Python
React
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
security compliance
teaching
Terraform
responsibilities
group
eQIP
title
Frontend Lead
description
Rebuilt the extensive form used for federal employment and contracting background investigations.
url
https://github.com/18F/e-QIP-prototype
group
DevSecOps Working Group
title
Technical Lead
description
Helped GSA systems migrate to the cloud by developing reusable components and processes around logging, monitoring, deployment, operating system hardening, automated testing, etc. This helped systems to incorporate operational best practices, while streamlining their security assessments. Helped build the DevSecOps-driven GRACE infrastucture-as-a-service (IaaS) platform through hybrid cloud + on-premise network design and infrastructure as code.
url
https://tech.gsa.gov/guides/dev_sec_ops_guide/
group
CIO Liaison
title
description
Worked with GSA's Office of the Chief Information Officer to ensure 18F got the support it needed for its business while maintaining compliance. Regularly engaged with the GSA Security team and other stakeholders to find compromise between security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Helped create the FedRAMP Tailored baseline to make it easier for tech companies to work with government.
url
group
Project Boise
title
Project Lead
description
Led a team to research software security compliance (Authority to Operate, or ATO) processes across the federal government, to understand how they vary across agencies, and how they could be streamlined. Managed budget of $165,000, staff, and project direction, while interacting with Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), the Nation Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), vendors, the White House, and more.
url
https://boise.18f.gov
group
ATO Sprinting/Streamlining Team
title
description
Helped 18F projects achieve FISMA compliance by writing documentation and providing hands-on assistance with improving their application security and completing compliance documentation, while ensuring DevSecOps best practices. We were able to reduce the time to ATO from six months to one.
url
https://before-you-ship.18f.gov
group
cloud.gov
title
description
Helped build a Platform as a Service for the federal government, specifically focusing on reducing friction to adoption. Wrote user documentation, built services, and provided training.
url
https://cloud.gov
group
OpenControl / Compliance Masonry
title
description
Helped create tooling and community around improving the security compliance process by encouraging structured compliance data, reuse, and automation.
url
http://open-control.org
group
C2
title
Technical Lead
description
Built a business process automation tool for streamlining purchase approvals, while providing better auditing capabilities.
url
https://github.com/18F/C2
group
title
Engineering Facilitator
description
Supervised a team of engineers, providing mentorship, soliciting peer reviews, mediating conflicts, etc.
url
organization
GitHub
url
https://education.github.com
title
Education Hacker
description
Company building tools for software development workflows. Worked to understand students' and teachers' obstacles to using professional software development practices in their classes, and conducted trainings on collaborative coding internationally. Was responsible for the system accepting and processing educational user upgrades, as well as determining best practices for classroom workflows.
start_date
2013-08
end_date
2014-06
hours
40
employees
300
skills
CSS
Git
GitHub
Heroku
HTML
JavaScript
Jekyll
jQuery
public speaking
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
teaching
organization
Artsy
url
https://www.artsy.net/
title
Software Engineer (Contract)
description
Online fine art marketplace. Full-stack web development on the site and APIs, as well as building an open source business statistics reporting framework.
start_date
2013-05
end_date
2013-08
hours
40
employees
70
skills
Backbone.js
CSS
Git
GitHub
Heroku
HTML
JavaScript
jQuery
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
organization
Jux
url
title
Senior Web Developer
description
As the only full-stack web developer at the small (now defunct) blogging startup, touched all pieces of the application, including social features and integrations of the site, layout templating, navigation, the image processing pipeline, and much of the API, as well as helping guide vision for the product.
Contractor building content management tools for FoodAndWine.com, as well as promotional micro sites for advertising partners.
start_date
2010-08
end_date
2011-01
hours
40
employees
200
skills
CSS
Git
GitHub
JavaScript
HTML
jQuery
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sinatra
teaching
organization
Columbia University
url
https://www.columbia.edu/
title
Lecturer
description
start_date
2022-11
end_date
hours
15
employees
4370
skills
Git
GitHub
Python
public speaking
teaching
responsibilities
group
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
title
Python for Public Policy
description
Introduces students with little to no programming experience to software development and data analysis though code. Covers the basics of command line, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, and data visualization by working with open data.
Co-instruct a course introducing students from various backgrounds the fundamentals of code, then teaching them how that applies to their discipline. I teach the Policy Context.
url
https://computing-in-context.afeld.me/
group
SIPA
title
Advanced Computing for Policy
description
Building and teaching a follow-up course to Computing in Context, the two of which form the core sequence for the new Data Science for Policy program. The course will give students a better understanding of computer science fundamentals, learning how data works in a broader context. They will learn and use APIs, databases, cloud services, and other technologies, processes, and considerations that go into complex data systems.
Taught an introduction to technology for business people, also known as "Technology Foundations". It was a survey course, providing a holistic introduction to tools, roles, and processes of technology and technology organizations.
Developed a class on Working with APIs and AJAX for the Open Campus Web Design and Development certificate.
start_date
2020-03
end_date
2020-10
hours
4
employees
1000
skills
JavaScript
public speaking
teaching
organization
Cornell Tech
url
https://www.tech.cornell.edu/
title
Adjunct Faculty
description
Taught the Startup Systems course, which covered web development from HTML to APIs to servers. The class covered the basics of JavaScript, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for students with a broad range of experience levels.
start_date
2016-08
end_date
2016-12
hours
20
employees
10000
organization
EmpireConf
url
http://empireconf.org/
title
Organizer
description
One of the organizers for the annual EmpireNode/EmpireJS/EmpireConf JavaScript conferences.
start_date
2015-01
end_date
hours
1
skills
community organizing
public speaking
teaching
organization
New York University (NYU)
url
http://www.nyu.edu/
title
Adjunct Assistant Professor
description
start_date
2012-06
end_date
hours
5
employees
19000
skills
CSS
Git
GitHub
HTML
JavaScript
NodeJS
Python
public speaking
teaching
Terraform
responsibilities
group
School of Professional Studies (SPS)
title
Advanced JavaScript
description
After redesigning the curriculum, taught the Advanced JavaScript course for twelve consecutive semesters, helped students gain an in-depth understanding of the language while teaching best practices for modern front-end development. The course material, which is fully available to the public online, became the showcase class for GitHub's Education program.
url
https://advanced-js.github.io/syllabus/
group
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
title
Building for Learning
description
Created and taught an interdisciplinary graduate-level course around building interactive educational tools, while also covering front-end web development. In addition to rapid prototyping of physical and digital learning materials, also brought in experts from the educational technology to give students an understanding of taking projects from concept to product.
This class gets students to apply new techniques to analyze social problems using and combining large quantities of heterogeneous data from a variety of different sources, through machine learning, data mining, and data science.
Designed curriculum and was lead instructor for the NYTech program, which helped seniors and graduate students build practical skills necessary for joining startups based in New York City, such as version control, web development, and resume writing. The culminating project was a class-wide collaboration to build a new site for a non-profit.
start_date
2014-09
end_date
2015-05
hours
5
employees
43000
skills
CSS
Git
GitHub
HTML
JavaScript
NodeJS
PostgreSQL
public speaking
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
teaching
organization
General Assembly
url
https://generalassemb.ly
title
Instructor
description
Taught JavaScript as part of the Front-End + Rails curriculum at this school for digital skills.
start_date
2013-02
end_date
2013-03
hours
8
employees
3200
skills
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
jQuery
public speaking
teaching
organization
Hacker Hours
url
http://hackerhours.org
title
Founder
description
Created a meetup group to provide mentorship for individuals learning to code, which reached over 8,000 members across seven states.