I started off at Kessel Run on the Security and Release Team. This team was charged with creating a single software release process / pipeline for the Air Force’s Kessel Run program. Our team utilized the Kessel Run’s CI/CD tool choice at the time (Concourse CI) to create a single pipeline that built, scanned and tagged application artifacts being deployed to both classified and unclassified infrastructure. Building of this pipeline required integration with Fortify SSC, Sonarque and Snyk security scanner as well as AWS’s S3 and Sonotype’s Nexus blob store. The release pipeline developed by our team successfully scaled to support the entire Kessel Run organization consisting of over 200 products.

I later transitioned to the Deployment Engineering team. We helped solve the organization's deployment parity issues. Our team developed a scalable and flexible deployment pipeline that could be used to deploy apps in development and production as well as run in both classified and unclassified environments. This pipeline scaled to support the entire organization and since its adoption has supported nearly all deployments to Kessel Runs PCF platforms.

As a side project myself and two other colleagues created a product that we later branded the Release And Deployment Dashboard (RADD). The initial idea was to work around a limitation of the organizations chosen CI/CD tool (Concourse CI). We created a web application using React JS and Java Spring Boot that allowed us to introduce Role Based Access Control to the CI/CD tools we were building. After the initial MVP was shipped our user adoption grew and the scope of our side project quickly expanded. Our product was eventually spun off into its own team and has since become Kessel Run’s single source of truth concerning the state of the organization. RADD (our simple side project) has won several awards and is routinely used in briefings to Air Force leadership, including the Secretary of the Air Force.

I was employee number 6 at F9 Teams, hired as a junior developer to build out the company's website, email marketing, and assist with the development of a SAAS product being built at the time. I developed our company’s website using the React-Based framework Gatsby and worked extensively with React building components for our SAAS product. I created, ran and tracked many different marketing campaigns using a combination of Mail Chimp, Facebook ads, and Google ad words. I also ran a movie studio.

After winning a fairly substantial contract with Kessel Run I assisted with shutting down our Seattle office and shifting all operations to Boston. I helped F9 Teams transition from a company that was focused on building a SAAS product to a defense contracting company. After the transition, I worked on proposals that outlined both the scope of our contract with Kessel Run and developed recommendations that resulted in the formation of Kessel Run’s first dedicated platform branch (KRES). At F9 I participated in hiring and onboarding nearly every person on the initial Kessel Run contract scaling our business from four people to twenty full time engineers. I worked on several business development projects responding to RFP’s and RFI’s for DoD programs such as ABMS, LevelUp, CloudOne, and USSOCOM.