Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Designed and led the technical implementation of a Platform as a Service for data scientists. This
• platform eliminates the rote work that data scientists perform to host and test algorithms dramatically
• reducing the amount of effort involved to create new features, allowing data scientists to focus on core
• algorithms instead of all the work involved in running them. The work of setting up databases,
• subscribing to event streams, getting machines to host software, observability and security is all
• handled by the platform. The application runs on Azure Kubernetes and is largely written in Go. It
• also makes extensive use of Kafka, Postgresql, and Helm. I also mentored other developers in this role
• and made reductions in the amount of effort applied to operational concerns by leading the adoption of
• contemporary CI/CD practices, observability, and other SRE related concerns.

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos

• Remote position reporting to EVP integrating supply chain security and SBOMs for Replicated
• products. Liaised with community involved with Replicated open source projects. Participated in
• vendor support. Developed developer best practices such as coding and review standards and worked
• with Kubernetes/Go/Docker in GCP/AWS/Azure clouds, on prem environments and air gapped
• environments.

Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · 9 mos

• My role at Shipa involves developing productivity tools that help make application deployment and management easy and accessible so that individuals can focus on activities that add value to their business as opposed to say wrangling YAML files when dealing with k8s. I work on internal proprietary software as well as our open source offerings such as Ketch. https://github.com/shipa-corp/ketch. My work involves code primarily written in Golang, Kubernetes, and a wide variety of supporting technologies such as Buildkit, and Cloud Native Buildpacks among others. I am also responsible for designing and implementing API REST endpoints using Go and Swagger. My role also involves interacting with and supporting our user community, mentoring other developers, and helping to design or suggesting new features. Additionally I am involved in activities to improve the capability of our engineering team, reducing bugs, and improving productivity.

Nov 2017 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• My role at Heroku involved development and support of the backend Metrics system. This system collected information from thousands of customer applications and refined it to produce Heroku dashboards capturing response times, memory usage, memory and cpu resource consumption as well as allowing the user to define various types of alerts and autoscaling. This system handled hundreds of thousands of messages per second and used technologies such as Kafka, Cassandra, and Redis among others. Most of the code was written in Golang, although some of our work used Ruby. In addition I worked on API endpoints exposing metrics microservices to other agents, both internal to the company and external. I had the additional privilege of participating in open source projects such as Pack, https://github.com/buildpacks/pack a tool for Cloud Native Buildpacks as well as Heroku open source projects. I also worked on projects that had to do with Heroku's build pipeline.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017 · 11 mos · Greater Boston

• Worked on Kolide's security management based projects using Golang, Kubernetes, Osquery and others. Wrote open source software such as Updater https://github.com/kolide/updater a package that can be implemented into an onprem application to provide secure self updates using TUF. This role also involved some front end work on a single page application using React.

Sep 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Software development/design for the Slyce product suite using Golang, Angular, Ruby, Docker and other tools.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Software development/design specializing in scalable web solutions; cloud hosted solutions; software optimization; fixing problems for our clients.

Jun 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Richfield, MN

• Ruby/Ruby on Rails consultant working with Best Buy's content management infrastructure. This position required extensive work with the Amazon Cloud, including designing and setting up Virtual Private Cloud environments that were integrated with the Best Buy internal infrastructure via IPSec tunnels.

May 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Design and implement software solutions specializing in finance and energy.

Jun 2011 – Apr 2012 · 10 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Jun 2006 – Jun 2011 · 5 yrs

Jan 2005 – Aug 2011 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 · 5 yrs

Jan 1994 – Jan 1994 · 0 mo