Experience

Around the World

• Barbados
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full-time Traveler

  • Jan 2019 - Present



Brigade

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2019

  Led architecture at Brigade. - Collaborated closely on both code and design across backend, data, operations, GraphQL, and web/client teams to ensure platform health, stability, and progress. - Maintained and enhanced core services, frameworks, and shared libraries to make development easier, faster, and less error-prone; sought and incorporated continuous feedback from product teams to enable rapid iteration. - Worked with product and engineering to develop processes around tracking… Show more Led architecture at Brigade. - Collaborated closely on both code and design across backend, data, operations, GraphQL, and web/client teams to ensure platform health, stability, and progress. - Maintained and enhanced core services, frameworks, and shared libraries to make development easier, faster, and less error-prone; sought and incorporated continuous feedback from product teams to enable rapid iteration. - Worked with product and engineering to develop processes around tracking and addressing product and technical debt. - Organized efforts to share knowledge internally via tech talks, presentations, documentation, and open sourcing. - Worked with leadership to ensure engineering platform efforts aligned with company priorities. - Prototyped Thrift-RPC-over-HTTP-2.0 in both Ruby and Typescript server and client implementations, focusing on gains in instrumentation, visibility, and implementation robustness. Provided implementation as a drop-in replacement for existing raw-socket platform.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Apr 2016 - Aug 2018

  Architected transition from monolith to SOA/microservices. - Led a team to develop various core components for microservice transition, including the API gateway, authz/authn service, and interaction patterns. - Designed and maintained extensible multi-language service framework and interface libraries based on Thrift-RPC, focusing on development and deployment ease. - Built a Kafka-backed event bus for async communication and scalability; introduced event sourcing design patterns into… Show more Architected transition from monolith to SOA/microservices. - Led a team to develop various core components for microservice transition, including the API gateway, authz/authn service, and interaction patterns. - Designed and maintained extensible multi-language service framework and interface libraries based on Thrift-RPC, focusing on development and deployment ease. - Built a Kafka-backed event bus for async communication and scalability; introduced event sourcing design patterns into the backend and data teams. - Prototyped framework for building Spark jobs in both Scala and PySpark on existing Hadoop infrastructure and codebase, extending access and ownership to backend engineers. - Set up Chef cookbooks, Jenkins jobs, and Marathon/Mesos deploy files for simple & scalable self-service CI/CD on all new services. - Paired with ops to build multi-service development tools and integration tests based on Docker. - Worked closely across all engineering teams + ops to ensure seamless transition and continued ease of use. - Developed backend and data components for various key product features. Languages: Ruby, Typescript, Bash, Scala, Python Platforms: Rails, Sidekiq, Thrift-RPC, Express.js, GraphQL, PySpark Persistence: MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra Infrastructure: Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Consul, Chef, Jenkins, Kibana, Statsd, Nginx



Lookout

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2014 - Mar 2016

  - Planned and executed migration of key components out of monorail application into standalone SOA service, ensuring zero service interruption for all of 70 million customers while completely overhauling underlying architecture; greatly improved availability, reliability, and ease of development. - Architected and implemented a modular billing service in Ruby on Rails. Improved response times and request capacity 10x over previous iteration using multiple orders of magnitude fewer… Show more - Planned and executed migration of key components out of monorail application into standalone SOA service, ensuring zero service interruption for all of 70 million customers while completely overhauling underlying architecture; greatly improved availability, reliability, and ease of development. - Architected and implemented a modular billing service in Ruby on Rails. Improved response times and request capacity 10x over previous iteration using multiple orders of magnitude fewer servers while processing millions of users and payments per day. - Authored and open-sourced library for turnkey instrumentation of asynchronous job trees, offering complete insight into background workflow status and bottlenecks; dropped into existing systems to enforce SLAs and auto-scale worker cluster, saving money and contracts. - Led a dozen local and remote developers and consultants on the partners team. Drew roadmaps, planned iterations, wrote stories, and performed bug and feature triage. Acted as interface with program managers, product managers, customer support, data analysts, and other service developers/owners. Mentored several rounds of new devs. - Built deployment tooling for CI/CD atop Jenkins and Capistrano. Enforced testing practices through code review and wrote/rewrote thousands of unit and functional tests using rspec. Cut code-test-deploy cycle time down from 1+ hours to single-digit minutes, enabling true TDD. Languages: Ruby, Javascript Platforms: Rails, Sidekiq, Resque, AngularJS Persistence: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch Infrastructure: Chef, Capistrano, Jenkins, Statsd, Apache/Passenger

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2014

  - Integrated with mobile carriers around the world (including AT&T, T-Mobile, Orange, DT, Telstra) to increase revenue by millions of dollars. Developed full stack from web frontend and device APIs down to partner backend (REST, SOAP, and others). - Built angular.js single-page application to support billing on all device types and through all partners. Designed frontend and backend for easy extension to new partners via external contractors, allowing rapid parallelizable partnership… Show more - Integrated with mobile carriers around the world (including AT&T, T-Mobile, Orange, DT, Telstra) to increase revenue by millions of dollars. Developed full stack from web frontend and device APIs down to partner backend (REST, SOAP, and others). - Built angular.js single-page application to support billing on all device types and through all partners. Designed frontend and backend for easy extension to new partners via external contractors, allowing rapid parallelizable partnership opportunities (single-digit months from conception to deployment).



Red Bow Labs

• United States
• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2011 - Oct 2011

  Prototyped Android client/Python server architecture combining distributed audio processing and spatial localization on commodity mobile devices to enable advanced real-time effects. Prototyped Android client/Python server architecture combining distributed audio processing and spatial localization on commodity mobile devices to enable advanced real-time effects.



Farasis Energy

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Contractor

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2011

  - Designed and built test hardware and corresponding LabVIEW workbench to automate Li-ion cell capacity measurements under arbitrary loads and charge/discharge cycles. - Consulted on hardware and firmware design for product line expansion to consumer battery charging applications. - Designed and built test hardware and corresponding LabVIEW workbench to automate Li-ion cell capacity measurements under arbitrary loads and charge/discharge cycles. - Consulted on hardware and firmware design for product line expansion to consumer battery charging applications.



Intel Labs

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • May 2010 - Mar 2011

  - Created a research platform for distributed mobile and embedded sound processing applications, involving hardware design and DSP work. - Developed and analyzed adaptive algorithms and hardware for distributed audio input \& output beamforming based on linear optimization techniques. - Created a research platform for distributed mobile and embedded sound processing applications, involving hardware design and DSP work. - Developed and analyzed adaptive algorithms and hardware for distributed audio input \& output beamforming based on linear optimization techniques.