Full stack engineer with a focus on platforms: backend, infrastructure, tooling, and automation.

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

Python, Django, Linux, Javascript, React, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Redis, Bash, Docker, Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Digital Ocean, Buildkite, Github Actions, Pants, Jenkins, Go, and more!

Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Sept 2022 - Present

Klaviyo, Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)

Designed and implemented a continuous delivery system for our main monolith, removing one of the largest inhibitors of velocity and stressors for our product engineers
Migrated our main repository and guided migrations of our other major repos to a merge queue model, greatly increasing our artifact safety and minimizing toil
Led work on an ML-driven 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
Planned and directed work on concurrent large-scale projects of HIPAA compliance and data residency which opened up the company to new markets

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
Brought forward developer experience improvements in the form of code consistency, documentation, and containerization

Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer I / Senior Software Engineer II

Jun 2017 - Dec 2021

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

Level II Tech / Web Applications Developer

Jan 2014 - May 2017

General Cable Corporation, Highland Heights, Kentucky

Led investigations into our ERP modernization by building custom API bridges for our legacy back-end
Enabled the business to better consume business data through custom development solutions
Created a custom desktop toolbox to speed up frequent manual support work for the team

References: Available upon request