Career
I enjoy building technology to improve business processes as a software engineer. I build on industry best practices, but I use my detail-oriented and quick-learning nature to better understand how they can be adapted and improved for local needs. I bring my experiences as a developer, operator, and user to provide a more holistic perspective on solution discussions.
Occupation
- December '19 – January '22 · Full-time
Senior Member Technical Staff leading the technical design and implementation of telemetry reporting for organizational stakeholders. Other efforts included migrating data systems to Impala; building Kubernetes-native distributions of Cloud Foundry products; and maintaining development tools used by other teams. Joined from Pivotal Software, via acquisition.
- May '06 – April '21 · Part-time
Systems Engineer developing and operating a custom e-commerce platform for a craft-focused business. Responsibilities included development and long-term support of front- and back-office retail systems; operations of AWS-based environments; integrations with third-party payment, shipping, and marketing services; and familiarity with industry best practices.
- November '15 – December '19 · Full-time
Staff Software Engineer building cloud-agnostic infrastructure tools and supporting short-term organizational initiatives. Efforts include anchoring BOSH to work closely with product and external teams; open-source community support via GitHub and Slack; research for Kubernetes Cluster API, internal development tooling, and training new Cloud Operations teams.
- April '13 – August '15 · Contract
Systems Architect to research and build cloud-native tools supporting development and log processing for a small, distributed R&D team based in London. Work included packaging and operating Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for AWS and BOSH environments; performance testing for terabyte-scale workloads; establishing practices and tooling for monitoring.
- July '09 – October '12 · Full-time
Software Developer building internal support applications and leading migrations to open-source frameworks for a small, healthcare technology startup.
Education
- High SchoolMay '05 · Westminster Christian Academy
- Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, SystemsMay '09 · Taylor University