Connecting people and being involved in the way that we communicate, innovate, and learn together has always been a passion of mine. I started my career in nonprofits, with a focus on children's literacy and education.

2023 — NowBravenStaff Software Engineer

2023 — Now

Chicago

2022 — 2023TenetSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2023

Lead developer on credit policy updates and changes. Implemented new credit policy variations that were responsible for 30% of new incoming loan volume after launch.

Weekly office hours mentoring junior employees

Significant work on improving documentation, process, and onboarding in a young, high-growth startup environment

2020 — 2022American Family InsuranceSenior Software Engineer, Data Science and Analtyics Lab

2020 — 2022

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Tech lead for the new auto telematics lab team, responsibilites including:

Led team of developers to execute data pipelining and application development related to large scale auto telematics data

Designed and created API for interfacing with auto telematics data at production scale

Created integration and execution plan for telematics lab api with existing enterprise systems

Designed system for productionalizing and administering data science models relating to usage based auto insurance

Hiring and onboarding to staff up new engineering team

Creating team processes and acting as scrum master until we were able to hire a dedicated program manager

Coordinated across enterprise teams to gather requirements, break down technical tasks, and develop timelines and roadmaps

Other responsibilities

Debugged and managed a large data release for our property data tracker

Designed and implemented data pipelines to gather over one billion images from MLS providers into our central data store

Designed data storage, metadata storage, and API for our property data tracker to correlate images from multiple vendors and dates to unique addresses

2019 — 2020Benchmark AnalyticsSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

Greater Chicago Area

As one of the original onshore engineering hires at Benchmark Analytics, I had a hand in a lot of initial engineering decisions in untangling and restructuring a monolithic codebase inherited from offshore developers. Some of my accomplishments while at Benchmark include:

Led Security and Permissions Team effort to break up monolithic Loopback codebase into Springboot microservice

Standardized application permissions into RBAC format

Implemented Oauth2 authentication and authorization for all code bases

Developed Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and code coverage checks for all code bases

Built a process for managing resources in AWS GovCloud using Terraform

Managed a small mixed team of remote and on site engineers

Introduced retrospectives and gathered feedback on team processes from on site and offshore engineers

Mentored junior employees and acted as a liaison between engineering and product

Created a logging and audit trail plan for critical customer data

Built a Flask skeleton with dummy endpoints to serve as a template for future Python microservices

Engaged in technical planning and subject matter expertise advising for new workflow and notification services to be written in Flask

2018 — 2019ActiveCampaignData Engineer

2018 — 2019

Greater Chicago Area

I work closely with the site reliability engineering, database administration, and data science teams, helping to close the operational gap between the two. I also collaborate with business intelligence and operations to implement ETL processes that power custom reporting and analytics.

Primary technologies used: Python 3.6.5, Apache Airflow, Terraform, AWS Aurora RDS, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, MySQL 5.6

ActiveCampaign is an integrated marketing automation, email marketing, and automated sales CRM platform. As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago, ActiveCampaign is revolutionizing marketing automation. Our software allows all of our users the power to make smarter business decisions based on data-driven analytics.

Education

2008 — 2011

Knox College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

2008 — 2011

2014 — 2014

Dev Bootcamp

Bootcamp Graduation

2014 — 2014

2004 — 2008

Cherry Creek High School

High School Diploma

2004 — 2008

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Bootcamp Graduation

High School Diploma