Experienced and passionate senior software engineer who can handle anything you throw at him. Eager to learn new things with a love for technology and a drive for building the best software possible. I bring strong skills in communication, leadership, mentoring, collaboration, learning, problem-solving and work ethic.
Saved the client over $12,000 per month by identifying and decommissioning unused EBS volumes in lower environments that were accruing unnecessary charges, and automating cleanup.
The EC2 Savings plan in production was expiring Jan 6th, 2026, and we successfully cut ~$30,000 a month (about 30% savings in cost)
The EC2 Savings plan in RDTE environments was expiring Jan 28th, 2026, and we successfully cut costs ~$26,000 a month (about 30% savings in cost)
Nominated as MVP for PI 23 in my first 3 months (March 30 2025 - June 30 2025)
Architecting cloud solutions for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dashboard, a mission-critical cybersecurity system serving over 100 Federal agencies using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash to enhance real-time analytics, visualization, and cybersecurity threat detection.
Automated Ansible patching and deployments, transforming a formerly manual, hours-long process into a zero-downtime deployment pipeline, ensuring seamless updates across 50+ instances without service interruptions.
Acted as Product Owner during a critical period, leading the team through a full Program Increment (PI) cycle, meeting all key deadlines including patching compliance, critical vulnerability remediation, and the successful onboarding of 50+ agencies.
Streamlined AWS role-granting, reducing processing time by over 90% (from 3 months to 3 days), saving 5,000+ developer hours and $300K+ in costs.
Awarded the Agile Antelope Award (2024) for highest Agile Adoption Assessment Score (94.7%) within the department.
Oversaw a team of 8 engineers to resolve technical bottlenecks, optimize cloud infrastructure, and achieve critical performance milestones.
Oversaw implementation for the OHSS Project, processing Office of Homeland Security Border Data through a large-scale ETL pipeline and AWS SageMaker AI workflows to generate Tableau and BI dashboards, enabling government agencies to make real-time, data-driven decisions, leveraging AI-driven reporting to analyze real-time maritime data and generate actionable intelligence reports.
Deployed AWS SageMaker AI to manage the environment for the Maritime Dark Vessels Project, leveraging AI-driven reporting to analyze real-time maritime data and generate actionable intelligence reports.
Developed governance policies for AWS resource tagging and access control, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Improved user permission workflows, reducing permission-related escalations by 70% and enhancing collaboration across departments.
Implemented DevSecOps best practices, integrating automated security scans into CI/CD pipelines to reduce security vulnerabilities by 50%
Nominated and won as the most agile development team at College Board in 2020
Pioneered an AWS Fargate solution after initial pushback, showing our teams the use cases of Fargate over Lambdas.
Rebuilt our outdated and complex college survey data collection system. It now runs on a React front end and a headless CMS backend hosted on Fargate using backend services such as Lambdas, SQS, and Aurora SQL.
Developed robust AWS serverless backends for our Career Finder data in order to extract and serve data to our partner, Road Trip Nation. AWS services include Lambda, Aurora RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, SQS, and IAM.
Worked with product owners to plan and execute solutions to solve business problems and satisfy business needs.
Redesigned our testing approach for more robust and efficient testing of our applications, forming a standard across our team.
Developed an AWS ETL that receives millions of records each month from our partner, Pearson, and moves those records through validations, transformations and into the correct storages to serve College Board’s other internal projects.
Created the first ever online SAT prototype that can support 1 million concurrent students, with an extremely aggressive due date. Our microservice parses recordings of students taking the SAT and streams it through machine-learning models to detect instances of cheating. We also built a React UI interface where human proctors can log in and review recordings. They can confirm or deny flagged videos, which will feed data to improve the machine-learning algorithm. AWS services used include Lambdas, DynamoDB, Fargate, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudFront and WAF.
Developed one of the first AWS CDK CI/CD pipelines at the CollegeBoard.
Worked with directors and product owners and led the team to meet aggressive deadlines. Took on responsibilities such as PR reviews, mentoring/training and architecture design.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Lead the development for Iris Peak’s marketplace web app, creating a robust Node API and a fast React front-end in order to have a performant, clean website packed with features, integrating Dynamics 365, Google Analytics, Azure and Microsoft Partner Center.
Increased page visits by 50% and decreased loading time by 70% by remaking the Practical Solutions Inc. main website from scratch using Javascript, HTML and Bootstrap, hosted on Azure, connected to Dynamics 365
Created a back-end application for Practical Solutions to pull and store federal contract data on a scheduled basis and visualize it on the front-end. This flow involved developing a secure Node.js API, using python scripting in a virtual shell environment, and Azure Logic Apps to modify the data and deposit it into a SQL database on Azure. Also, developed the front-end using React.js to pull the data from the SQL server and portray them in interactive visualizations.
Consulting for CEOs, Directors and Supervisors. Identified problems, led discussions, developed plans, presented and executed solutions to the clients’ problems
Created a comprehensive Vue.js dashboard for USAGM to interactively and cleanly visualize data analytics, statistics, and projections through visuals such as graphs, charts, and diagrams. Developed many secure Node.js back-ends to create multiple scalable API’s for our DataLake containing Postgres databases and buckets that are hosted on Azure. Also, led a complete integration of another program called SMART, migrating their data, visualizations and assets, and infusing it into the USAGM website
Became the adhoc lead developer for a time due to the resignation of the only senior developer
Recruited and trained junior developers through pair programming, code reviews, and team discussions
Managed junior developers and coordinated work flows to achieve deliverables
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Collaborate and provide solutions by working closely with project leaders to design and create clean, scalable web and mobile applications
Created a Bot using Javascript and integrated it into the client’s streaming platform increasing moderation and user interaction by over 20%.
Developed a single page Front-end interface using React.js in order to display and customize the client’s printing designs.
Developed various small projects using Javascript and Ruby frameworks for small businesses and start-ups
Education
2016 — Present
Flatiron School
Certification in Full Stack Developement
2016 — Present
University of Virginia