Driven by a compassionate curiosity, I strive to get to the heart of any problem I'm faced with. I've found that team work beats tech stack any day of the week, and I'm looking for empathic and curious people to solve hard problems with.

2024 — 2024ComcastSenior Software Engineer

2024 — 2024

Lead high-visibility, business critical project to success in the face of sudden, 11th hour timeline acceleration.

Accelerated org velocity by several orders of magnitude by reducing complexity of multi-language (ClojureScript, Javascript, Typescript), multi-framework (Re-Frame, Reagent, React, MUI) codebase

Ensured cross-functional, cross-continental stakeholder alignment through regular written and face-to-face communication

Decoupled Dev, QA, and Product workstreams by adapting existing legacy codebase to support continuous integration/deployment

2022 — 2023ShortcutSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2023

Lead architecture and development of two-way syncing feature with Jira from

conception to release

Designed and extended existing Datomic schema to to support two-way sync

project

Reduced existential project risk for Jira Sync by bringing clarity to discussions

with key stakeholders around scope, goals, and timeline for initial release

Saved hundreds of hours of engineering time by cutting CI/CD pipeline run

time in half

2021 — 2021Analytical Flavor Systems Inc.Lead Data Engineer

2021 — 2021

Debugged and resolved mission critical failure of core ML feature generation

Kubernetes cluster running in GCP

Cut business critical ML feature generation time in half

Reduced organizational risk by aligning our ML feature generation cloud

infrastructure with our organizational capacity and constraints

Leveraged Clojure, Docker, and Terraform to enable this re-architecture

Lead Data Engineering and Data Science teams in pivoting focus to automate

creation of our core product deliverables in response to existential threats

to the company

2019 — 2021Healthfinch by Health CatalystSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2021

Adapted multilingual — Clojure, React, RoR — microservices architecture

to meet shifting business needs

Triaged and fixed issues spanning entire microservices architecture,

crossing language, hardware, and deployment boundaries in the AWS cloud

Resolved go-live blocker for a major customer by debugging their network live

with them on the phone, building customer goodwill in the face of a politically

thorny problem

Increased platform performance and stability through implementation of

distributed tracing

Lead and shipped major project for key customer — adding missing

capabilities to our decision support engine — which spanned multiple

systems and involved multiple engineers and non-engineering stakeholders

Enabled faster and stronger change validation of core Clojure rules engine

by creating a system to run new code safely against production data during

development, resulting in strong regression-testing assurances

Reduced product development friction by creating no-downtime SDLC

roadmaps for key projects

2017 — 2019Kidblog Inc.Director Of Infrastructure

2017 — 2019

Managed entire cloud infrastructure, including multi-node Elasticsearch cluster

Shipped reporting feature, providing customers on-demand insights into

platform value, that increased sales and customer success velocity

Increased product sales through design and delivery of referral program

feature, refactoring and building on existing Clojure codebase

Shipped promo code management feature, increasing marketing velocity,

designing/developing the API endpoints, ES mappings, and backend Clojure

code

Adapted existing frontend coffeescript/angular code to support new promo code

feature

Education

2011 — 2015

University of Minnesota

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2011 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)