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2022 — NowNew Relic, Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2022 — Now

2021 — 2022Samsung ElectronicsSoftware Engineering Manager | SmartThings

2021 — 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

2020 — 2021Samsung ElectronicsStaff Software Engineer | SmartThings

2020 — 2021

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Working on a team supporting the event pipeline within the SmartThings ecosystem. Using Kafka, JVM based microservices, DynamoDB.

2018 — 2020Samsung ElectronicsSenior Software Engineer | SmartThings

2018 — 2020

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Implementing JVM based services - responsible for provisioning infra (AWS/Terraform), coding (Ratpack/Dropwizard/Spring, Groovy/Java/Kotlin), persistence (Cassandra, Aurora, DynamoDB), testing (Spock/Gatling/Mockito), deploying (Spinnaker), and monitoring/on-call rotations (Datadog/SumoLogic).

2018 — 2018Samsung ElectronicsSoftware Engineer | SmartThings

2018 — 2018

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education

2014 — 2016

University of Minnesota

Master’s Degree

2014 — 2016

2008 — 2012

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS

2008 — 2012

Experience+

Education

Master’s Degree

BS