Senior Staff Engineer at EvolutionIQ (2025-11 – 2026-05)
Project discontinued
- Delivered in-depth cost analysis, architectural plans and proposals to reduce cloud spend by 2M+
- Consolidated disparate product's data pipelines into a single, configuration driven data pipeline
Staff Software Engineer at Grow Therapy (2025-01 – 2025-11)
- Achieved HIPAA posture improvements by automating mapping of PII/PHI storage and collaboration with security to harden access
- Expanded operational capacity, resilience, and availability through delivery of analysis, RFC, and project plans to migrate from RDS to Aurora
- Built observability, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for kubernetes clusters and databases
Platform Engineer at Rownd Inc. (2023-11 – 2024-10)
Reduction in force
- Enabled deployments to AWS GovCloud for USAF pilot program by hardening system and delivering AWS EKS infrastructure automation
- Led SOC2 certification attainment and improved security for commercial and USAF deployments
Director, Core Engineering at Stack Overflow (2022-01 – 2023-05)
Reduction in force
- Improved developer experience and supported cloud-native migration efforts by building Core Engineering to 18 globally distributed engineers
- Identified and eliminated security risks in legacy build and deploy tooling and mitigated impact of unauthorized access due to Circle CI security breach
- Formulated replace and retire strategy, resolving long-standing security and privacy risks
Senior Staff Engineer, Group Technical Lead at Zendesk (2020-01 – 2022-01)
- Led architecture and implementation of a CPQ solution, increasing enterprise customer spend by 15%
- Improved API response time 100-fold by leading design and implementation of distributed architecture
Vice President of Engineering at npm, Inc (2017-04 – 2020-01)
- Led engineering organization through key changes resulting in acquisition by GitHub
- Designed and delivered a cloud-native enterprise platform, driving 21% revenue growth
- Achieved a 70% decline in system incidents and a 35% cut in operating costs through improvements to system resilience, infrastructure automation, and modernization
Senior Software Engineer/Architect at Valify Marketplace (2016-08 – 2017-04)
- Reduced infrastructure costs 40% by migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS
- Launched a zero-downtime deployment pipeline to enable disruption-free continuous delivery
Software Architect at Planview LeanKit (2013-08 – 2016-08)
- Reduced feature delivery cycle from 3 months to 4 weeks through implementation of a CI/CD pipeline and improved developer experience by creating custom tooling
- Cut annual infrastructure costs by $1.1M through delivery of event-driven, push-based architecture
Software Architect at Asurion (2013-03 – 2013-08)
- Unlocked entry into multi-billion dollar international markets by delivery of new platform architecture
- Saved $200M annually through consolidation of technology stacks and system architectures
Vice President of Product Development at appendTo, LLC (2012-01 – 2013-03)
- Drove a 33% increase in professional services through client retention and satisfaction
- Accelerated organizational scale-up, delivering 115% revenue growth over a 6 month period
Senior Software Architect at Terenine Technology Solutions (2010-08 – 2011-12)
- Architected scalable solutions that underpinned a $20M increase in revenue
- Shrank defect rates by 70% via process improvement, staff upskilling, and automated testing
Head of Software Development at Sommet Group (2008-02 – 2010-05)
- Launched a self-service portal that grew customer base 178%, grew revenue by $28.5M, while reducing operational overhead by 30%
- Implemented lean and agile methodologies, cutting feature development cycle by 85%
Software Consultant at ComFrame, VACO Technology, Compuware, XPO Designs, LLC (2003 – 2008)
Early Career
Systems Programmer/Analyst at Jacobs Sverdrup, Aerospace Testing Alliance, Phoenix USA, Inc. (2003 – 2008)
Highlights include winning the Mars Rover Parachute development contract for Johnson Space Center, delivering an inter-agency intelligence sharing platform for Tennessee law enforcement, and leading technology innovation projects that were directly responsible for a 25 M+ increase in annual revenue.
