Experience

Cortico

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

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Present



Capital One

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master Software Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Oct 2021

  - Assisted with migration of core account and transaction processing off of legacy mainframes and into modern cloud-native implementations. - Maintained over a dozen Cassandra clusters, addressed security vulnerabilities and other enterprise compliance issues, developed in-house tooling for managing Cassandra schema migrations. - Implemented Docker-Compose- and Kubernetes-based flavors of performance- and integration-testing environments for hybrid containerized/serverless systems… Show more - Assisted with migration of core account and transaction processing off of legacy mainframes and into modern cloud-native implementations. - Maintained over a dozen Cassandra clusters, addressed security vulnerabilities and other enterprise compliance issues, developed in-house tooling for managing Cassandra schema migrations. - Implemented Docker-Compose- and Kubernetes-based flavors of performance- and integration-testing environments for hybrid containerized/serverless systems, including push-button pipelines for provisioning K8S-based environments. - On-call for service outages, incidents, and late-night systems maintenance.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 2018 - Jan 2019

  - Implemented local integration testing for hybrid containerized/serverless systems using Docker-Compose, LocalStack, Serverless and Terraform. - Modernized build pipelines for speed and legibility, wrote shared pipeline libraries, and integrated Jenkins with Slack for better build status visibility. - Developed workflows for packaging and deploying Serverless applications within CapitalOne's ecosystem. - Triaged security compliance issues. - Maintained legacy hotel arbitrage… Show more - Implemented local integration testing for hybrid containerized/serverless systems using Docker-Compose, LocalStack, Serverless and Terraform. - Modernized build pipelines for speed and legibility, wrote shared pipeline libraries, and integrated Jenkins with Slack for better build status visibility. - Developed workflows for packaging and deploying Serverless applications within CapitalOne's ecosystem. - Triaged security compliance issues. - Maintained legacy hotel arbitrage monolith service, added extensive testing, and prepared for switchover to next-generation replacement. - Architected next-gen event-sourced/CQRS system for hotel arbitrage. - Implemented entity-resolution microservice for matching hotel names and addresses against Priceline's dataset. - On-call for service outages and incidents.



Discogs

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Developer

  • Nov 2015 - Apr 2018

  - Refactored and extended test coverage on a large legacy Python codebase. - Developed new features to support the customer buying experience. - Created and deployed containerized applications to Discogs' Kubernetes cluster. - Integrated a central authentication service across Discogs' public ecosystem - On-call for Discogs' central authentication service. - Instrumented new and existing systems and API integrations. - Refactored and extended test coverage on a large legacy Python codebase. - Developed new features to support the customer buying experience. - Created and deployed containerized applications to Discogs' Kubernetes cluster. - Integrated a central authentication service across Discogs' public ecosystem - On-call for Discogs' central authentication service. - Instrumented new and existing systems and API integrations.



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Technical Assistant

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2014

  - Lead programmer for the Music21 Project. - Implemented API documentation system. - Refactored and parallelized musical corpus metadata population and search. - Optimized musical data structures for rapid lookups by timing information. - Lead programmer for the Music21 Project. - Implemented API documentation system. - Refactored and parallelized musical corpus metadata population and search. - Optimized musical data structures for rapid lookups by timing information.



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2010 - May 2014

  - Taught courses related to music theory, electronic music production and sound design, computer-assisted composition, and acoustics. - Led students in installing massively-multi-channel speaker arrays. - Taught courses related to music theory, electronic music production and sound design, computer-assisted composition, and acoustics. - Led students in installing massively-multi-channel speaker arrays.



Forced Exposure

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programmer

  • Nov 2006 - Aug 2008

  - Implemented automated documentation preparation workflows for product catalogs and email campaigns. - Assisted in creation of new B2C mail-order website. - Implemented automated documentation preparation workflows for product catalogs and email campaigns. - Assisted in creation of new B2C mail-order website.