Experience

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• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Full stack developer. Helping to build the next set of image and video storage and syncing solutions for one of the first providers in the industry Full stack developer. Helping to build the next set of image and video storage and syncing solutions for one of the first providers in the industry



PowerSchool

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer II / Platform

  • Apr 2020 - Jun 2023

  Designed and implemented the automation and Kubernetes based delivery solution that moved the flagship product from a highly service-hours laden delivery and operations model (upwards of 300 hours per deployment and no automated upgrades) to a continuous deployment and declarative configuration model which reduced overall service hours by 95% and unlocked fully automated upgrades across all customers. Helped the ETL/data warehousing team migrate from a bespoke database-driven workflow tool to a… Show more Designed and implemented the automation and Kubernetes based delivery solution that moved the flagship product from a highly service-hours laden delivery and operations model (upwards of 300 hours per deployment and no automated upgrades) to a continuous deployment and declarative configuration model which reduced overall service hours by 95% and unlocked fully automated upgrades across all customers. Helped the ETL/data warehousing team migrate from a bespoke database-driven workflow tool to a declarative k8s-native solution using Argo Workflows that relies heavily on inherent autoscaling features and is now capable of running a nearly arbitrarily large number of concurrent workloads. Oversaw the design and implementation of a fully declarative observability solution using the kube-prometheus stack (prometheus, grafana, AlertManager). Designed and led the implementation of a “platform management” application layer that uses modern isomorphic UI tech (React, NextJS) and a declarative kubernetes controller framework (Metacontroller) to realize an application/engineering-centric approach to large scale delivery and operations. The goal is to eliminate, as much as possible, the need for people to “do devOps”, as well as to connect the operators to the compute and application configuration of the platform at large, and ultimately to create a path for exposing a customer-facing UI for self-service (i.e. turn the platform into a true PaaS). Show less Designed and implemented the automation and Kubernetes based delivery solution that moved the flagship product from a highly service-hours laden delivery and operations model (upwards of 300 hours per deployment and no automated upgrades) to a continuous deployment and declarative configuration model which reduced overall service hours by 95% and unlocked fully automated upgrades across all customers. Helped the ETL/data warehousing team migrate from a bespoke database-driven workflow tool to a… Show more Designed and implemented the automation and Kubernetes based delivery solution that moved the flagship product from a highly service-hours laden delivery and operations model (upwards of 300 hours per deployment and no automated upgrades) to a continuous deployment and declarative configuration model which reduced overall service hours by 95% and unlocked fully automated upgrades across all customers. Helped the ETL/data warehousing team migrate from a bespoke database-driven workflow tool to a declarative k8s-native solution using Argo Workflows that relies heavily on inherent autoscaling features and is now capable of running a nearly arbitrarily large number of concurrent workloads. Oversaw the design and implementation of a fully declarative observability solution using the kube-prometheus stack (prometheus, grafana, AlertManager). Designed and led the implementation of a “platform management” application layer that uses modern isomorphic UI tech (React, NextJS) and a declarative kubernetes controller framework (Metacontroller) to realize an application/engineering-centric approach to large scale delivery and operations. The goal is to eliminate, as much as possible, the need for people to “do devOps”, as well as to connect the operators to the compute and application configuration of the platform at large, and ultimately to create a path for exposing a customer-facing UI for self-service (i.e. turn the platform into a true PaaS). Show less



Metisentry

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

• Senior Platform Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Apr 2020

  Responsible for architecture and operations of cloud systems for a large array of clients, including the US Army. Responsible for bringing modern devOps (docker, kubernetes, gitOps, etc) practices into play in order to facilitate the vision of the "SaaS factory". Continuously exploring the edges of the ops/kubernetes ecosystem looking for better ways to do things. Responsible for architecture and operations of cloud systems for a large array of clients, including the US Army. Responsible for bringing modern devOps (docker, kubernetes, gitOps, etc) practices into play in order to facilitate the vision of the "SaaS factory". Continuously exploring the edges of the ops/kubernetes ecosystem looking for better ways to do things.



Backbone PLM

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2019

  Principal architect and systems engineer at Backbone. My responsibilities included devops and infrastructure automation, API and tooling design and buildout, as well as frequent pairing and mentoring sessions with the rest of the team to help unblock them in their tasks and facilitate their continued growth. My first order of business at Backbone was to create a tenable micro services architecture using Docker and AWS (ECS/CloudFormation/Convox) to ensure that the local development… Show more Principal architect and systems engineer at Backbone. My responsibilities included devops and infrastructure automation, API and tooling design and buildout, as well as frequent pairing and mentoring sessions with the rest of the team to help unblock them in their tasks and facilitate their continued growth. My first order of business at Backbone was to create a tenable micro services architecture using Docker and AWS (ECS/CloudFormation/Convox) to ensure that the local development experience was as painless as possible, that all services were appropriately isolated from each other for fault tolerance and scalability purposes, and that there was true parity between all environments whether local or not. The first litmus test was the new employee stack setup and on-boarding time, which went from days to minutes. The second goal achieved with this setup was being able to use the same manifest for production deployments and to automate our zero-downtime deployments in ECS, as well as having solid controls to manage operations and scaling the entire platform as needed. Next up was automation of our API plumbing, which up until I joined had been hand-written at every layer. Each developer had their own style, and having all of this otherwise boilerplate code being manually written was causing huge problems with regressions by unnecessarily increasing the surface area for potential error. The application was getting nowhere and the entire project was high risk at this point. I designed and integrated a fully automated system that generated all of the code necessary to implement the CRUD operations on the back-end, as well as the front-end client code, and which could easily be extended to include more boilerplate as needed. The result was that our front end developers were finally able to start focusing on feature development instead of pointless boilerplate and fixing regressions related to it. Show less Principal architect and systems engineer at Backbone. My responsibilities included devops and infrastructure automation, API and tooling design and buildout, as well as frequent pairing and mentoring sessions with the rest of the team to help unblock them in their tasks and facilitate their continued growth. My first order of business at Backbone was to create a tenable micro services architecture using Docker and AWS (ECS/CloudFormation/Convox) to ensure that the local development… Show more Principal architect and systems engineer at Backbone. My responsibilities included devops and infrastructure automation, API and tooling design and buildout, as well as frequent pairing and mentoring sessions with the rest of the team to help unblock them in their tasks and facilitate their continued growth. My first order of business at Backbone was to create a tenable micro services architecture using Docker and AWS (ECS/CloudFormation/Convox) to ensure that the local development experience was as painless as possible, that all services were appropriately isolated from each other for fault tolerance and scalability purposes, and that there was true parity between all environments whether local or not. The first litmus test was the new employee stack setup and on-boarding time, which went from days to minutes. The second goal achieved with this setup was being able to use the same manifest for production deployments and to automate our zero-downtime deployments in ECS, as well as having solid controls to manage operations and scaling the entire platform as needed. Next up was automation of our API plumbing, which up until I joined had been hand-written at every layer. Each developer had their own style, and having all of this otherwise boilerplate code being manually written was causing huge problems with regressions by unnecessarily increasing the surface area for potential error. The application was getting nowhere and the entire project was high risk at this point. I designed and integrated a fully automated system that generated all of the code necessary to implement the CRUD operations on the back-end, as well as the front-end client code, and which could easily be extended to include more boilerplate as needed. The result was that our front end developers were finally able to start focusing on feature development instead of pointless boilerplate and fixing regressions related to it. Show less



SoFi

• Information Technology & Services

• Software Developer

  • Feb 2016 - Jan 2018

  (Was Clara.com during the time I worked there). Early team member in vibrant well funded SF fintech startup . Worked extensively in front-end stack (angularJS, React), as well as back-end services (scala, ruby) and data quality team (analytics). Part of the team that re-engineered the consumer-facing product from AngularJS to React/redux. Implemented a fully self-service document signing feature that had been eluding the rest of the mortgage industry. Worked with product management stakeholders… Show more (Was Clara.com during the time I worked there). Early team member in vibrant well funded SF fintech startup . Worked extensively in front-end stack (angularJS, React), as well as back-end services (scala, ruby) and data quality team (analytics). Part of the team that re-engineered the consumer-facing product from AngularJS to React/redux. Implemented a fully self-service document signing feature that had been eluding the rest of the mortgage industry. Worked with product management stakeholders to deliver aggressive roadmap items. NOTE: they​ successfully exited to SoFi.com Show less (Was Clara.com during the time I worked there). Early team member in vibrant well funded SF fintech startup . Worked extensively in front-end stack (angularJS, React), as well as back-end services (scala, ruby) and data quality team (analytics). Part of the team that re-engineered the consumer-facing product from AngularJS to React/redux. Implemented a fully self-service document signing feature that had been eluding the rest of the mortgage industry. Worked with product management stakeholders… Show more (Was Clara.com during the time I worked there). Early team member in vibrant well funded SF fintech startup . Worked extensively in front-end stack (angularJS, React), as well as back-end services (scala, ruby) and data quality team (analytics). Part of the team that re-engineered the consumer-facing product from AngularJS to React/redux. Implemented a fully self-service document signing feature that had been eluding the rest of the mortgage industry. Worked with product management stakeholders to deliver aggressive roadmap items. NOTE: they​ successfully exited to SoFi.com Show less



NCTI, Inc.

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Web Developer

  • Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

  Helped build a market-specific professional learning platform that serviced the massive consumer cable industry. Helped build a market-specific professional learning platform that serviced the massive consumer cable industry.



Liveality.com

• United States
• Consumer Services

• Senior Software Engineer / Architect

  • May 2013 - Mar 2014

  Created advanced component/widget framework to facilitate rapid development of complex single-page application. This enabled the team to quickly create an “Adobe InDesign-Lite” interface that ran in the browser which was used to create online memory books for the yearbook and competitive race/marathon markets. Oversaw design and development process for the web tier of the product, including UX. Created advanced component/widget framework to facilitate rapid development of complex single-page application. This enabled the team to quickly create an “Adobe InDesign-Lite” interface that ran in the browser which was used to create online memory books for the yearbook and competitive race/marathon markets. Oversaw design and development process for the web tier of the product, including UX.



ZyQuest

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Solutions Lead

  • Sep 2010 - Sep 2013

  Created full-featured node.js based web framework (https://github.com/theVolary/feather). Architected complete stack for HuTerra.com and Speechtails.com, using feather, node, CouchDB, REDIS, ElasticSearch, and AWS. Lead development team in exploring and integrating scalable technologies to support high volume web traffic goals. Created full-featured node.js based web framework (https://github.com/theVolary/feather). Architected complete stack for HuTerra.com and Speechtails.com, using feather, node, CouchDB, REDIS, ElasticSearch, and AWS. Lead development team in exploring and integrating scalable technologies to support high volume web traffic goals.



Modern Hire

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Developer and Architect

  • Aug 2009 - Sep 2010

  Created complete video interviewing SaaS platform. Transformed existing codebase to be service-oriented and cloud based. Responsible for research and sourcing of high capacity video delivery solution for the high end side of the HR market. Created complete video interviewing SaaS platform. Transformed existing codebase to be service-oriented and cloud based. Responsible for research and sourcing of high capacity video delivery solution for the high end side of the HR market.



Nth Penguin, LLC

• Founder / Lead Architect

  • May 2007 - Aug 2009

  Co-founder and tech lead of high end consulting firm; helped turn $20k initial angel investment into over $1million revenue in 18 months. Built RIA reporting solution for Mashery.com. Architected and oversaw development of complete LMS for BankersEdge.com - a product that is still sold to major financial institutions such as CitiGroup to support global corporate training initiatives. Co-founder and tech lead of high end consulting firm; helped turn $20k initial angel investment into over $1million revenue in 18 months. Built RIA reporting solution for Mashery.com. Architected and oversaw development of complete LMS for BankersEdge.com - a product that is still sold to major financial institutions such as CitiGroup to support global corporate training initiatives.


Mashery
• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• AJAX Consultant

  • 2006 - Jan 2009


Emageon

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2004 - Mar 2005

  Member of the Informatics Team responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the company's data access core for the flagship product line. Member of the Informatics Team responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the company's data access core for the flagship product line.



RedPrairie

• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Marketing Engineer and CRM Administrator

  • Jun 2003 - Mar 2004

  Developed corporate website, integrated CRM system, implemented business processes for marketing improvement. Developed corporate website, integrated CRM system, implemented business processes for marketing improvement.