Experience

Sightline Payments

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Patron Server Team Manager

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  In addition to existing work as a backend engineer with the patron server team I also:* Provide guidance and mentorship to team members* Stay aware of team member's queues and bandwidth* Ensure questions go to appropriate team members and interruptions are mitigated* Facilitate discussions and encourage continuous improvement

• Backend Engineer

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

  - Developing Patron servers for the JOINGO mobile app platform- Helping build the data services for many casino apps including Resorts World Las Vegas- Actively led discussions with casino IT teams and staff to ensure proper API usage- Creating scalable, robust, and resilient Go servers- Maintaining and expanding existing Python servers- Monitoring and debugging API connections from casino to mobile app



JOINGO

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Field Engineer

  • Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

  - Developing, deploying, and maintaining patron servers written in Go - Working with mariaDB, Casino management system's APIs, and prometheus to develop patron servers - Communicating and troubleshooting with customer's IT teams - Developing, deploying, and maintaining patron servers written in Go - Working with mariaDB, Casino management system's APIs, and prometheus to develop patron servers - Communicating and troubleshooting with customer's IT teams



Billups

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

  Backend Services engineer specializing in Geospatial data and designing distributed systems. Projects have included: - recreating Python programs in Go - building REST APIs in Go for CRUD access to NoSQL and GIS relational databases - designed a new system to utilize S2 geography cells for improved reply times and smaller data footprints - created new tables for PostgreSQL and managed multiple table joins for data extraction - created data mappings for ElasticSearch to enable synonym aware full and keyword text searches - worked with Kubernetes and AWS to deploy new services built in Docker - wrote unit and integration tests - built custom audience importer using PostGIS, tileservers, and go Show less



Boohma

• Lake Oswego, Oregon

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Jun 2018

  Python and Go programmer -worked on a micro services architecture for a map searching tool, wrote unit tests -using Go, developed, as part of a team of 5, an efficient and cost effective data pipeline for processing 4 billion data points in under an hour using an AWS server cluster -wrote tests for Go and monitored pipeline progress using Prometheus and custom hooks Python and Go programmer -worked on a micro services architecture for a map searching tool, wrote unit tests -using Go, developed, as part of a team of 5, an efficient and cost effective data pipeline for processing 4 billion data points in under an hour using an AWS server cluster -wrote tests for Go and monitored pipeline progress using Prometheus and custom hooks



CDK Global

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Feb 2018

  Systems engineering -Worked with legacy code to update to a new kernel -Debugged large software stacks to find optimal solutions -Built and ported patches to common Linux software packages -Worked with kernel level code -Replaced monolithic recursive make build process with new 82% smaller Python+Scons implementation -Managed the continuous integration process from building to deployment -Maintained infrastructure for Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP -Crafted multiple scripts and programs using python, C, or Shell (bash and ksh) -Redesigned a terminal based menu and integrated it with prior solutions Show less



Oregon State University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Building Manager (AV)

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2015

  Working on the set up of La Sells Stewart Center, the lighting and sound for Austin Auditorium, and the lighting and sound of the Construction and Engineering Hall. Also overseeing teams for set ups and events including running the technical side of events from start to finish. Working on the set up of La Sells Stewart Center, the lighting and sound for Austin Auditorium, and the lighting and sound of the Construction and Engineering Hall. Also overseeing teams for set ups and events including running the technical side of events from start to finish.



Puppet

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

  Release engineering intern, working on packaging for puppet products. - Worked with rpm and debian mostly - Ruby was the primary language with rake used for updating software build automation - Received Puppet Fundamentals training during tenure. Release engineering intern, working on packaging for puppet products. - Worked with rpm and debian mostly - Ruby was the primary language with rake used for updating software build automation - Received Puppet Fundamentals training during tenure.



Oregon State University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• AV Technician

  • Sep 2010 - May 2014

  Working on the set up of La Sells Stewart Center, the lighting and sound for Austin Auditorium, and the lighting and sound of the Construction and Engineering Hall. Working on the set up of La Sells Stewart Center, the lighting and sound for Austin Auditorium, and the lighting and sound of the Construction and Engineering Hall.