I'm an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for making other folks' jobs easier. Many hours put in to Go, C/C++, Java, and C#, but I am very language agnostic and love an opportunity to learn a new tech stack.

2023 — NowRiot GamesSenior Software Engineer

2023 — Now

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead developer on Entitlements and Wallets services backing permanent unlocks and virtual currencies for all Riot titles.

Rewrote Entitlements from internal framework to Spring Boot, improving efficiency, maintainability, and resilience

Number of required pods reduced by 30 - 40%

Incidents caused by Entitlements reduced from multiple per quarter to zero in past 6 months

2022 — 2023UnitySenior Back End Engineer

2022 — 2023

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Instrumental in Lobby and Friends service development, bringing them through design, alpha, closed / open beta, and GA

Lead integration of Vivox into Lobby, reducing lines of code needed to enable voice chat in games by 10x

Developed and maintained several libraries, enabling consistency and improving velocity across micro-services

Skills: Go; Kubernetes; Postgres; TypeScript; CI/CD (Github Actions, Jenkins); Dev-ops; Packaging and evangelizing internal libraries

2021 — 2022UnityBack End Engineer

2021 — 2022

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Back end Software Engineer working on Lobby within Multiplayer Services.

2019 — 2021MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer II

2019 — 2021

Redmond

Lead critical migration effort in Azure SQL Server, coordinating work between internal and external teams

Built and owned storage pre-provisioning feature, fixing long-standing performance issues, improving I/O telemetry, and eliminating recurring customer reported incidents

Skills: C/C++; C#; Driving full development cycle; Dev-ops; Simulation and automated testing

2018 — 2019BenevityPlatform Software Developer

2018 — 2019

Calgary, Canada Area

Built and launched a content-driven webservice, utilizing concepts of microservices, API design, and Dev-ops

Automated manual SQL processes for other teams, reducing time spent on these tasks from weeks to hours

Skills: Java; Bash; MySQL; API, webservice, and microservice design; Agile / SCRUM; Presentation andmentorship

Education

2011 — 2016

University of Calgary

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Distinction

2011 — 2016

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Distinction