Software Engineer at Airtable
Previously CTO of Welkin Health; APM at Google on {Maps, Search, Security}.
2021 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
2020 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Building https://aft.dev, a self-hosted "indie" backend-as-a-service written in Go
Embedded in-memory database with a flexible JSON-based query language, including joins, foreign keys, projections, indexes, powerful unions, access controls and more.
UI and API for defining schema
Automatically provisioned JSON APIs
Automatic data migration
Embedded scripting engine and RPC system
2019 — 2020
2018 — 2019
Technical lead: developed multi-year vision and architected critical initiatives
TL + manager of Welkin's Infrastructure, Security and Compliance team
Took Welkin through SOC 2 certification from scratch
2014 — 2018
Developer on most of Welkin's system, including:
* Dynamic business rules engine
* Graph-based phone tree system
* Python API framework and JS client
* OAuth server
* Extensive data integrations
* Infrastructure-as-code system
* Android client
* Flexible field-level permissions system
* Elasticsearch cluster, indexing and analysis pipeline, ranking and UI
* Transparent application-level encryption system
Dartmouth College