I've built a data engine for ingredients, recipes, and nutrition that treats recipes and ingredients as data objects that can be queried, classified, modified, and shared.

(Think: "big data meets recipes, ingredients, and nutrition")

The system allows users to enter arbitrary recipes and ingredients, some of which are queued for review and normalization, and to see how the different ingredients, measures, and quantities affect the nutrition and allergens of the meal.

The front-end has all of the requisite meal-planning features like a calendar, a shopping list, recipes, ingredient pages, and a user profile. There are charts that show the nutritional contributions of each ingredient in a recipe, plus the recipes allergens. The back-end has a set of tools to manage the data (review, normalize, map, classify, etc). The site has been optimized for mobile and is built using progressive open-source tools and technologies.

Principal engineer at a new startup. Launched the initial version of the site in the original unmanaged hosting environment. Provided technology services, site architecture & development, operations, and back-office development for zulily.com through the site's initial period of rapid growth. This included software development for the website, internal tools, backoffice, automation, and fulfillment along with operational support for the NOC and zulilys RDBMS. Oversaw the migration to a managed hosting environment, along with migration from four servers to thirty, plus initial integration with a fulfillment provider. Wrote many key site features and all backoffice automation for our fulfillment provider, along with providing senior technical leadership to the engineering team. Wrote most of the tools we use to release code, audit servers, and integrated these tools with our revision control system.

Dec. 2009: Zulily Raises $4.6M
Jan. 2010: Site launch
Aug. 2010: Zulily Raises $6M
Aug. 2011: Zulily Raises $43M
Sep. 2011: #28: The World's Most Valuable Startups
Nov. 2011: zulily.com ranked #478 most visited web site in the US (via alexa).
Mar. 2012: zulily.com ranked #365 most visited web site in the US (via alexa).
Dec. 2012: zulily.com ranked #278 most visited web site in the US (via alexa).
Nov 2012: Zulily Raises $85M
Jan 2013: Zulily: Fresh, Fast, and Worth $1 Billion
Nov 2013: Zulily IPO

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