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Blog Posts

Recent musings syndicated from codeadventurer.com

Projects

Work in the community

Local Food Systems Site Screenshot

Local Food Systems

Web Design & Development

Code for Summit County Brigade Meeting

Code for Summit County

Brigade Captain

HackNEO National Day of Civic Hacking in Akron, Ohio

HackNEO

Organizer & Event Lead

Freshfinder Landing Page

Freshfinder

Concept & Development

Persa presenting how to build sites with Jekyll.rb

Intro to Jekyll.rb

Presenter

Persa opening RailsBridge Cleveland

RailsBridge Cleveland

Organizer & Presenter

Persa working on controlling robots with motion

RobotsConf

Ruby Expert

History

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  • June 2015 — present

    Senior Computer Scientist

    Adobe Fonts (formally Typekit)

    • Proposed, architected, and lead a team of cross-organizational and cross-timezone engineers to build a complete rewrite of our font processing pipeline using Ruby and Python in AWS Lambda in a series of microservices, orchestrated with AWS Step Functions, and managed via Terraform. The improved pipeline can reprocess the entire subscription library of fonts in 7 hours, which previously took 2 weeks. The new system has increased visibility and reduced our bug reports from 8 per sprint to 2 per quarter. The microservices architecture has given the team flexibility to add support for enhanced metadata extraction, new font formats, and machine learning pipelines that power new user experiences. 
    • Drove the implementation of CSS-only delivery of our webfonts offering, eliminating the need for JavaScript for our customers. This also enabled subscribers to use our library of 20,000 webfonts in HTML emails, as well as serve their branded content using Google AMP. 
    • Provide ongoing improvements, scaling and support for our webfont serving service, serving over 400 billion font views per month. 

  • March 2014 — May 2015

    Software Engineer

    Hireology

    • Rewrote the core product interview logic in Ruby on Rails and introduced behavioral-driven development using Cucumber to this workflow, reducing bug reports from 12 per week to 1 per month.
    • Implemented a new payment provider to meet PCI compliance and reduce back-office errors in subscription tracking.
    • Built back-end reporting functionality using Ruby on Rails and D3.js to surface new subscriber engagement to the sales and support teams. This enabled the proactive follow-up and support practices.

  • September 2012 — August 2013

    Web Developer

    Fathom Digital Marketing

    • Built a responsive web design framework for the team to use when building landing pages and microsites, increasing click-through rates by 31% on mobile pay-per-click campaigns.
    • Built internal tool using Ruby and ImageMagick to auto-generate resized and compressed images for various device sizes, reducing developer time spent on generating these images from 1 hour per project to seconds.
    • Introduced git workflows and git deployment using Beanstalk to eliminate developers overwriting projects with outdated work.

  • December 2008 — April 2010

    Assistant Director of Web Communication

    The College of Wooster

    • Onboarded, deployed, and supported the first CMS (SiteCore) used by the College for the main wooster.edu domain.
    • Planned, deployed and supported the first campus-wide blogging platform with self-hosted Wordpress Multi-User.
    • Planned, deployed and supported the first alumni social network platform.

  • June 2003 — October 2009

    Graphic & Web Designer

    Royalton Music Center

    • Built 60+ print and digital campaigns to boost local sales and become the top-rated music store in Northeast Ohio.
    • Built and launched a new web presence, featuring a catalog powered by custom-built Joomla plugins, to cater to musicians seeking professional-quality instruments, propelling instrument sales across 14 states.

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