Taking time to investigate potential ideas for new companies, and refreshing technical skills. Also performing part-time software engineering and leadership consulting work.

Also, full-time kitten parent!

Engineering leader focused on improving the overall availability of Twitch's website and services, primarily by providing best practices and tools that all of Twitch engineering can use to monitor, alert, and debug their systems in production.

* Founded a team to build tools to improve operational observability of production systems at Twitch.

* Designed and helped implement an engineering-wide service catalog.

* Worked with team to come up with and implement strategies for scaling Twitch's engineering metrics platforms to handle growth to millions of data points a second.

Focused on improving Twitch's engineering in a non-management leadership role. In particular, focused on scalability, stability, and security.

* Did capacity planning for key Twitch systems, allowing us to scale well past 1 million concurrent users in large scale events.

* Hands-on design and implementation to improve scalability and stability of key Twitch systems.

* Designed and assisted in implementing key authentication and authorization systems to improve the security, robustness and performance of Twitch APIs.

* Key participant in Twitch's engineering hiring, responsible for interviewing multiple candidates a week.

Managed a 20+ person engineering team focused on Twitch's frontend (i.e. non-video) customer experience, including client applications (iOS, Android, XBox), web front-end, and web backend (Rails).

* Introduced processes to improve developer efficiency, including agile project management.

* Applied technical expertise to help drive overall technical direction for the team.

* Managed our nascent QA organization.

* Worked with engineering leadership to create more consistent employee leveling for all of engineering.

* Highly involved in the hiring process for the whole engineering organization.