Experience

Akamai Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Joining the Kubernetes Product Platform team. Joining the Kubernetes Product Platform team.



Meta

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

  Resource utilization improvements * Reduced allocated database hardware footprint by 16 petabytes, around 10% of that product, while actual usage increased * Project included shard placement optimization software improvements and automatic compaction Team Lead * Proposed and implemented a lightweight Scrum-style project management, primarily focused on improving team collaboration * Rotating Scrum Master; onboarding and on-call mentor Python to Rust refactoring * Focused on reduced fleet memory footprint * Native Rust in Python libraries via pyo3 * Extended internal dev tooling with Rust support * Gave an internal tech talk on Rust for Python developers Managed SEVs and customer issues ranging from service APIs and UIs to customer MySQL issues Show less



Facebook

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Oct 2021

  Facebook became Meta; adding this to help connect with teammates that didn't rename their experience to Meta. Facebook became Meta; adding this to help connect with teammates that didn't rename their experience to Meta.



Acquia

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Feb 2013 - Oct 2021

  Joined Acquia’s Cloud team as a Drupalist with some DevOps experience which quickly evolved into full-time focus on developing infrastructure orchestration software Accomplishments * Tech Lead for multiple Acquia Cloud teams. * Led development of Acquia Cloud Next, a rebuild of core PaaS on Kubernetes * Designed and led development of scalable PaaS infrastructure using AWS Auto Scaling Groups * Led modernization initiative of multi-tenant platform utilizing socket activation of densely packed containerized applications * Led development of multi-tenant, authenticated Memcached for customer apps * Engineer and Scrum Master for Cloud Data team which built and operates multi-tenant customer MySQL and NFS infrastructure * Engineer on Acquia Shield network isolation and VPN product Show less



AllPlayers Network, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Developer

  • Dec 2009 - Feb 2013

  Built a platform for organizations to register, manage and interact with participants * Planned and led development for a multi-tenant marketplace that tracked $11 million in sales and processed $3 million in online transactions * Introduced a unique marketplace concept where organizations can bring their own payment gateway, reducing risk and providing flexibility for the customer * Led development of 2 - 6 developers using Scrum and managed externally contracted development projects * Developed and promoted continuous integration using PHPUnit, Jenkins, GitHub, Selenium, and other tools * Contributed to infrastructure development using Chef and AWS * Mentored Senior Design project with UT Dallas students creating a prototype Android app. Show less



National Group

• IT Manager

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2009

  One-person technology team for a small disaster reconstruction company out of Florida; helped maintain a large company presence and provide a high level of technology on location of hurricanes and tropical storms around the Gulf Coast. One-person technology team for a small disaster reconstruction company out of Florida; helped maintain a large company presence and provide a high level of technology on location of hurricanes and tropical storms around the Gulf Coast.



Self-Employed

• IT Consultant

  • 2001 - 2009

  Everything from custom Drupal websites for businesses, non-profits, and politicians to pulling Cat 5. Everything from custom Drupal websites for businesses, non-profits, and politicians to pulling Cat 5.