I want to create solutions that make the problems look simple and improve people's lives.

2023 — NowTemporal TechnologiesSenior Software Design Engineer

2023 — Now

Raleigh, NC

2021 — 2022StripeSoftware Engineer III

2021 — 2022

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Stream Infrastructure (Kafka Team)

owned and operated Kafka for all of Stripe, maintaining 99.9999% availability

built core components of the Kafka control plane MVP

migrated Kafka-related services and clients from dedicated VMs to Kubernetes

liaison for security and compute teams

onboarded new hires and interns

technologies: Kafka, Scala, Kubernetes, Temporal, gRPC, AWS, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Puppet, Zookeeper

2020 — 2020Sigma Ratings, Inc.Lead Software Engineer

2020 — 2020

New York, New York

designed event-based architecture and led the full-stack development of the Terminal application

wrote and optimized advanced SQL queries for append-only tables, text/json search, and more

maintained and optimized ETL jobs for performance and reliability

managed AWS resources, monorepo build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring

technologies: Scala, Play framework, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, Python, Flask, Spark, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS ECS, AWS RDS, AWS Kinesis, Metabase, GitLab CI/CD

2018 — 2020Sigma Ratings, Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2018 — 2020

Greater New York City Area

2015 — 2017SoundCloudSoftware Engineer II

2015 — 2017

New York, New York

Revenue Development

built a self-service web tool for native ads

integrated new ad formats and third-party ad networks across web, iOS, and Android

built diagnostic tooling and scripts

technologies: Scala, Finagle, Javascript, React, Ember, Clojure, Google DoubleClick

Education

2010 — 2012

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2010 — 2012

2009 — 2010

Santa Fe College

Associate of Arts (A.A.)

2009 — 2010

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Associate of Arts (A.A.)