Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Technical leader with over 10 years of experience in software engineering and web application development. Specializes in building and operating APIs, web applications, and distributed systems for SaaS products at scale.
2025 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
Architecting, building, and operating Infrastructure Platforms for GitLab, the DevSecOps platform.
Focused on REST and GraphQL APIs for Developer Experience.
2022 — 2025
Launched general availability for Code Suggestions by improving production readiness for AI infrastructure.
Incubated internal platform to deploy and operate services on self-serve paved path with best SRE practices.
Led rollout of first multi-region deployment for stateless services on GitLab.com to reduce latency.
Developed capacity planning prioritization framework for proactively scaling horizontal and vertical saturation resources.
2022 — 2022
Founded Platform team responsible for core data services and infrastructure.
Held 1:1s with direct reports to provide support and feedback for engineers.
Ran standups with Kanban board to remove blockers and celebrate wins for team.
Planned, reviewed and retrospected biweekly sprints to achieve goals for backlog.
2021 — 2022
Architected, built, and operated APIs and UIs with Rails for Orbit, a community analytics SaaS.
Launched general availability by implementing core functionality and performing operations for production-ready web application.
Released top installed integration with Discord API to provide users with insights into server usage.
Increased cost efficiency by migrating search functionality from vendor to Elasticsearch cluster.
2017 — 2020
Architected, built, and maintained APIs and UIs with Rails for AppOptics, an APM SaaS.
Launched general availability by implementing core functionality for user authentication, organization management, onboarding, billing, and trials.
Expanded product offering to Heroku add-ons marketplace to generate new revenue stream.
Drove adoption of GraphQL gateway and React component library to consolidate portfolio of SaaS products.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania