My interests lie at the intersection of databases and distributed systems. During my studies at UC Berkeley and UW-Madison, I learned about the good ideas identified in both of these fields over the decades.

2021 — NowGoogleSoftware Engineer

2021 — Now

Contributing to Cloud Spanner.

2018 — 2021ZendeskSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2021

Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) to provide authorization for Custom Objects, Zendesk's object datastore

Led the effort over two quarters to design and implement relationship-based access control (ReBAC) for Custom Objects

Participated in 20+ onsite interviews and 40+ phonescreens, mostly for senior and staff engineers

Guided engineers on my team through exercises to improve monitoring and reliability

2016 — 2018University of Wisconsin-MadisonTeaching Assistant

2016 — 2018

Created and graded assignments for multiple undergraduate courses, notably CS 368 (C++ for Java Programmers)

Held frequent office hours to provide one-on-one guidance for students

2017 — 2017ZendeskSoftware Engineering Intern

2017 — 2017

Developed an internal service to import OAS specfiles from GitHub into stoplight.io, a tool to design APIs

Documented the common structure of my team's projects to aid future engineers in deployment

2016 — 2016AsanaSoftware Engineering Intern

2016 — 2016

Configured on-premise Sentry to report exceptions from production Python code

Contributed to an internal framework that wraps around Kubernetes, with plans to open-source the framework

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Master of Science - MS

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science - BS

Archbishop Mitty High School

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Education

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Science - BS