Full stack engineer with a focus on backend and infrastructure.
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Graduated May 2023
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Cincinnati
Graduated April 2017
Expertise
Advanced: Python, Django, Linux, Javascript, React, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Redis, Bash, Docker, Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Digital Ocean, Github Actions, Jenkins
Fundamentals: Go, Android, PyTorch, Java, C++
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Sept 2022 - Present
Klaviyo, Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)
- Designed an approval management system which enabled our customers to send custom transactional messages to their customers in a heavily regulated space
- Integrated a second vendor for our SMS operations enabling significant short and long term savings
- Took on several major growing pains projects including separating large live shared resources and transitioning from Celery to Pulsar
- Managed and completed a company-wide Django upgrade ahead of schedule and below cost
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Tidelift, Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)
- Implemented a priority queuing system which unblocked our heavily asynchronous codebase
- Developed features that worked in parity across web, developer APIs, and CLI
- Pushed for developer experience improvements in the form of code consistency, documentation, and containerization
Senior Software Engineer II
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Senior Software Engineer I
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Software Engineer
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
edX, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Remote)
- Senior developer for our white label business and leader of a trusted team which built solutions to ambiguous problems
- Bridged the gap between Devops and Engineering by piloting and expanding an "embedded SRE" guild which empowered product engineers to take ownership of their infrastructure
- Supported developers across teams by leading book clubs, authoring open-source community standards, and giving engineering presentations
- Allowed my team to focus on development rather than process through automation and smart infrastructure
- Spurred innovation by expanding our plugin system to allow plugins to add context to arbitrary pages.
Web Applications Developer
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Level II Support Technician
Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
General Cable Corporation, Highland Heights, Kentucky
- Led investigations into our ERP modernization by building custom API bridges for our legacy back-end.
- Created the global internal homepage for a Fortune 500 company
- Enabled the business to better consume business data through custom development solutions
- Designed and built a custom desktop toolbox to speed up frequent manual support work
References: Available upon request