Mike Hall Staff Software Engineer

Delivered fraud analysis, internal tooling, and a centralized taxonomy service across multiple stacks. Transitioned to leading efforts to rebuild and improve onboarding and engineering retention programs.

• Built merchant analysis tools in Ruby and CouchDB to generate reports used by sales to identify high-value markets and deals.
• Rebuilt onboarding and facilitated training across multiple sites; partnered with TalentDev to improve ramp consistency and strengthen manager training.
• Designed fraud pattern queries in Vertica and spiked Hadoop/Clojure detection tools to scale analysis.
• Implemented a centralized taxonomy service in Java/MySQL and built the servers to host it, enabling consistent categorization across teams.

Skills: AWS EC2, AWS S3, Airbrake, Apache, Bash, Bootstrap, CSS, Capistrano, Clojure, CouchDB, Cucumber, Git, GitHub, Hadoop, Hubot, Java, JavaLite, JavaScript, Jetty, Mongrel, MySQL, NGINX, Node.js, RSpec, Raphael.js, Redis, Resque, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sass, Thin, Unicorn, Vagrant, Vertica, Vim, XHTML, Z shell (Zsh), jQuery