Experienced software 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, DigitalOcean, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Pants, Jenkins, Artifactory, Claude / AI tooling, and more!

Experience

Lead Software Engineer

Sept 2022 - Present

Klaviyo, Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)

Built a continuous delivery system for our main monolith that eliminated a top bottleneck for our product engineers raising our developer satisfaction score by 22 points (a 51% increase)
Migrated our primary repository and guided migrations of our other major repos to a merge queue model, greatly increasing our artifact safety, minimizing toil, and bringing our primary branch success rate above 99%
Planned and directed work on concurrent large-scale projects of HIPAA compliance and data residency which opened up the company to new markets
Managed the upgrade and rollout of two major Django releases, coordinating dozens of teams across hundreds of clusters and thousands of routes
Conceived and built a code freeze management system to work alongside our CI/CD pipelines which allowed for variable levels of risk allowance during high-visibility events
Integrated a second vendor and laid multi-vendor foundations for our SMS operations enabling significant short and long-term savings
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

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2021 - Aug 2022

Tidelift, Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)

Implemented a priority queuing system which unblocked our heavily asynchronous codebase
Developed customer-facing features that worked in parity across web, developer APIs, and CLI

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2017 - Dec 2021

edX, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Remote)

Senior developer for our white-label business and leader of the team trusted with the organization's highest priority 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
Spurred innovation in the Open edX community by expanding our plugin system to allow greater customization by operators

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 iSeries back-end
Enabled the business to better consume business data faster via internal development solutions
Created a custom desktop application for managing Active Directory users to speed up frequent manual support work for the team