I'm a polyglot comfortable across the stack. I've built many diverse projects in my 13+ year career. I spent the last 8 years taking a Silicon Valley startup from early stage to acquisition, team building, mentoring younger engineers, and building better developer tooling.

Experience

HeadSpinStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

HeadSpinSenior Software Engineer

2017 — 2024

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Team lead for reliability and build and release

Developed in house distributed build and deployment service to enable continuous automated deployment

Debug and maintain complex service deployment code to support baremetal Linux, MacOS, and Windows servers

Led containerization of 30+ services

Developed an installer to adapt HeadSpin's cloud based code and infrastructure for air-gapped on premise environments which are responsible for over 33% of company revenue now. This was my first project when I joined HeadSpin. I had to grok the code base and current deployment scheme, update the deployment code, build a solution, and deliver a working installer within a month to a Fortune 500 company that had already been promised the deliverable.

BetaSmartzSenior Software Engineer

2016 — 2017

Sydney, Australia

Led a team of international developers building BetaSmartz MVP with Python, Django, Postgres, Linux, Docker, Bloomberg API, and IBM Softlayer.

ENDVESTSenior Web Developer

2015 — 2016

New York

Led a team of international developers building the Endvest MVP with Django, Postgres, Linux, OpenShift, Redis, Mailchimp, Nginx, Docker, Javascript, Bootstrap, Amazon S3, and Cloudflare.

Natserv Inc.Senior Web Developer

2013 — 2016

Developed Django, Flask, and Angular applications for clients

Developed sitiata.com, a time and task management web service created by Natserv

Education

Oberlin College

Bachelor of Arts

Selma High School

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Education

Bachelor of Arts

Experience