Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
2015 — 2024
2015 — 2024
• Led the Buoyant Cloud team, responsible for the development and maintenance of Buoyant's enterprise SaaS product, written in Go and React, with gRPC and GraphQL interfaces
• Leveraged multiple open source and cloud technologies to monitor Linkerd's health across customer clusters, including Kubernetes client-go, Grafana Agent, gRPC, Cortex, AlertManager, and MySQL
• Developed a build pipeline for Buoyant's distribution of Linkerd that provided artifact publishing with continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation, using GitHub actions, GitHub container registry, Snyk and Docker
• Served as a super maintainer of the Linkerd project, focused on the Go implementation of the control plane and CLI
2010 — 2015
2010 — 2015
• Led the Monorail Core team, responsible for the stability of the legacy Ruby on Rails monolith as it was decomposed into a service-oriented architecture
• Decommissioned multiple under-utilized storage and caching backends, leading to a substantial reduction in infrastructure costs
• Developed key features for the backend Tweet service, written in Scala, including the ability to schedule tweets and the ability to withhold tweets on a per-country basis
• Built out the client-facing API and backend services for surfacing realtime Tweet analytics data in a performant and scalable way
2010 — 2010
2010 — 2010
• Developed core functionality for the main customer-facing site, a robust search tool to measure and manage social media impact
• Combined search data from the in-house document index with additional external API content from sites such as Flickr, Twitter and YouTube, to create a rich and seamless user experience
• Overhauled the ecommerce system to support invoicing, credit card payments, contractual discounts and variable billing cycles
• Enabled automatic synchronization to Salesforce of customer contact information, billing parameters and service details
2009 — 2010
2009 — 2010
• Acquired by Lithium Technologies in May 2010
Education
University of Richmond