Seeking a role in data or software engineering at a company with a positive impact on society. (Tackling climate change, public health, education, inequality, etc. I'm open-minded about what that impact may be.

2024 — NowNavaSenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

2022 — 2024SemanticBits is now part of ICFSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2024

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Transferred to SWE to backfill critical maintenance & security remediation needs for CMS Quality Payments Program analysis & reporting platform (custom BI tool + ancillary svcs.)

Implemented custom visualization types for data science team in React & Python/Flask

Found & remediated 5+ critical-severity actually-exploitable security vulnerabilities (e.g. plaintext disclosure of auth signing secret) across 3+ microservices over 12 months

2021 — 2023SemanticBits is now part of ICFData Scientist

2021 — 2023

First hire on CMS Clinical Standards and Quality analytics & reporting strategy contract

Explored nursing home abuse citations via dbt / SQL & produced QuickSight dashboard

Built ELT pipeline for enterprise QuickSight usage metadata using AWS APIs & dbt; produced executive dashboard to evaluate cost savings & monitor progress of agency data modernization

Extended Python dbt-core to integrate SQL comments into table & column documentation

Researched & prototyped SQL PoC for a dbt Redshift direct-to-S3 external table materialization

2019 — 2020True Link FinancialData Scientist

2019 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

Owned data modeling, governance process, & analysis in Sisense BI; identified causes of signup dropoff, evaluated marketing campaigns, found early predictors of retention, & more

ID’d & fixed critical oversight in core growth metric calculation; led to major business pivot

Refined core growth metric to focus on revenue streams best aligned with customer value, and adapted sales team incentive formula to align with core metric changes & improve auditability

2018 — 2019True Link FinancialProduct Manager

2018 — 2019

San Francisco, CA

Coordinated product, data, and operations to launch Ohio ABLE Act card program on 3-month timeline, providing liquidity to tax-advantaged savings for people with disabilities

Designed & launched HIPAA-compliant encryption for customer attachments and notes, an embeddable product signup widget for landing pages, self-serve user management, and more

Identified erroneous growth metrics reporting in an important market segment and rolled out a fix, contributing to strategic company pivot away from that market

Education

2011 — 2015

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2011 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)