Some craftsmen carve wooden canoes - I code. As a programmer, I carve digital solutions. I'm a team player and a detail-oriented developer with a passion for learning about all things computing, particularly web-based backend software development.
Loom DevEx Lead (Sep 2025 - Present)
Leading the Loom DevEx team to maintain and scale the developer platform, focusing on CI/CD, automated testing, and a containerized development environment
Integrating AI into the Loom SDLC to drive measurable improvements in engineering velocity and developer experience
Lead Code Confidence initiative to increase testing rigor and code coverage across 8+ teams, including tuning static code analysis and implementing programmatic guardrails for both developers and agents
Hardened platform reliability by codifying Datadog monitors in Terraform, implementing automated health checks that prevented regressions in CI/CD
Dev Infra Lead (Sep 2024 – Sep 2025)
Designed and launched CI/CD progressive rollout orchestration in under 3 months, facilitating safe deployments with zero rollout incidents for the Atlassian Frontend Monorepo (including Jira & Confluence)
Led the migration of internal feature-flag infrastructure to Statsig, creating 240+ configurations and improving flag resolution latency by up to 22x
Mentored 10+ engineers, served as the Austin intern champion for a cohort of 18 interns
Published documentation practices viewed by 200+ employees across Atlassian Engineering
2023 — 2024
Built the core codebase and grew Atlassian's managed build platform adoption by +1,725%, onboarding new teams and adding Python, Go, and Node support
Consolidated the roadmap and shipped 4 standalone templates to expand addressable coverage by over 400%
Drove technical direction for Atlassian's polyglot build strategy by leading a Bazel migration trial and authoring core RFCs on build performance and tool selection
Led the re-platforming of Greenlight’s Identity Management (CIAM) to support crucial business requirements such as non-traditional family structures, user profile switching, and external user linkages
Built Identity microservices to serve high-volume REST APIs facilitating user lifecycle management
Created and maintained a Kotlin/Spring Boot microservice template that reduced new service creation time by 90% by utilizing API-first OpenAPI Specification-based code generation, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
Mentored junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and 1:1s to enable their technical development
2022 — 2023
Architected a task orchestration framework and led a team of six engineers from concept to production deployment utilizing Node.js, gRPC, SNS, SQS, and distributed tracing through DataDog
Automated the customer deactivation process to reduce OpEx by reducing time to deactivation by over 95%
Refactored identity verification (KYC) service to improve service stability, increase observability through SLO monitoring, and improve test coverage by 30% while minimizing roadmap impact
Collaborated with our Tools/DevEx team to improve developer velocity by increasing the accuracy of CI/CD quality gating, reducing monolith pipeline runtime by 50%, an automated feature toggle lifecycle, and developing a new hire onboarding project
Led a technical communication series on code quality and design-document best practices for the Account’s Team
2020 — 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Created the backend (Java) and persistence layer (MariaDB/MyBatis) for an inventory forecasting system to analyze past demand to make purchasing recommendations to prevent shortages in complex manufacturing environments (10,000+ parts/product)
Implemented a dynamic task-card display for inventory recommendations using React.js/Redux
Collaborated with the head architect to design and implement customer-facing REST API using annotation-based code generation, reducing API creation time by 90%
Improved stability of purchasing recommendation framework by adding contract-based unit and integration testing coverage, identifying critical failures
Owned the development lifecycle end-to-end including DevOps, DevEx, Backend, and Frontend development
Education
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo