Functioned as the CTO -- working directly with the CEO to determine all the technologies to be used by Amenity.io, a luxury AirBnB like startup. Responsible for all installation, setup, development, administration and ongoing maintenance of all technologies.

• Node.js application running on Sails.js framework bundled with webpack
• React used for both client and server on the web, ReactNative used for mobile
• Netflix falcor used for REST services. A custom library was built to run falcor over websockets
• Redis used to synchronize authentication across nodes, and to serve up cached profile and listing data
• Stripe used for payments
• AWS for cloud services
  • App ran on EC2 instances deployed with Elastic Beanstalk
  • Static assets stored in S3 and served with CloudFront
  • Dynamically sized images generated with thumbor, which were then cached and served by S3 and CloudFront
  • User data stored in MySQL database running inside RDS
  • Listing data stored in DynamoDB so that it could be easily searched by CloudSearch