With over a decade of leadership and engineering experience architecting, building, and maintaining friendly software serving hundreds of thousands of people, from classrooms, to factories, to the International Space Station, I thrive solving puzzles where technology intersects with the natural and social world.
Founded Second System Technologies to build software that is practical, reliable, responsible, accessible, and fun to use. Designed and shipped Phonograph, a complete PostgreSQL-compatible data platform and web application, while supporting consulting clients in the non-profit and government contracting space.
Formed Scholar Fund in 2016, with two co-founders, as a non-profit organization marrying digital technology with in-the-classroom workshops to expand access to college finance advising. Cumulatively, Scholar Fund students reported over $90M in scholarships won. Returned in 2021 to recruit and lead a team of 5 engineers as the organization took on a pivotal role in administering multiple government funded cash assistance programs, totaling $100M+ in funds dispersed and serving over 250,000 applicants. Architected, shipped, and maintained a full stack web application delivering secure, accessible, customizable, and highly available application intake for programs spanning multiple states.
Joined Quilter—founded by a former SpaceX colleague—as the first full-time software engineer and employee #3. Bootstrapped development of groundbreaking PCB auto-router, leading to $10M Series A led by Benchmark Capital. Collaborated in hiring remainder of initial engineering team.
Additionally, led research and development in machine learning for industrial applications, including anomaly detection with computer vision for manufacturing processes and LSTM based anomaly detection for time series telemetry in InfluxDB, and prototype private network telemetry protocol for IoT embedded systems.
Joined the team tasked with the company's most future-focused RnD. Designed and conducted experiments to validate and compare performance across software RAID implementations (e.g. ZFS, mdraid, btrfs, bcachefs configurations), under simulated conditions of localized data corruption from ionizing radiation events experienced during interplanetary missions. Also led independent research of cutting edge machine learning for applications in aerospace.
From the factory floor and particle accelerator control rooms, authored test software and supported radiation test operations and data review for avionics hardware supporting the NASA Crew Demo-1 mission. Supported radiation test operations and data review for multiple avionics components supporting the NASA Crew Demo-1, STP-2, and GPS III-2 missions, among others. Contributed to reports for, and attended external review briefings with, representatives of the U.S. Air Force.
