Jun 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs · Lehi, Utah, United States · Hybrid

Dec 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr · Lehi, Utah, United States

• Orchestrated and implemented technology upgrade company-wide from chef based environment over to containers and kubernetes
• Improve NPS of "developer experience" from -10 to 63.
• Introduced and led architectural discussions and RFC documentation
• Developed platform for engineers to more effectively deploy to kubernetes including building Custom Resource Definitions.
• Designed and developed platform tools for high reliability event streaming

Nov 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs · Lehi, Utah, United States

• Moved entire organization to follow Continuous Delivery
• Increased quality (reduced change failure rate) across all projects by 20%
• Designed backend architecture
• Reduced response time to critical issues (MTTR) 50%
• Introduce asynchronous service communication over a rabbitmq messagebus
• Mange employee engagement

May 2019 – Nov 2019 · 6 mos

• Architected and implemented system for service discovery and service-to-service communcation
• Technical Lead over 11 software engineers.
• Handle scalability of application with 300% growth year over year
• Designed and trained employees on microservices architecture
• Built and maintained several internal developer facing tools
• Spoken at various meetups and conferences on microservices and deployments

Aug 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Designed CI/CD plan for entire engineering org. Transitioned the company from manual deploys to using automated CI pipelines
• Managed a team of Infrastructure/DevOps engineers.
• Managed kubernetes clusters on AWS and Google Cloud
• Designed and implemented strategies allowing SOC2 certification

Jan 2018 – May 2025 · 7 yrs 4 mos

• Consulting and training on Cloud computing, Kubernetes, DevOps practices and Continuous Delivery.
• Have helped over 20 Utah companies.

Jun 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• Primary maintainer of Elastic Beanstalk CLI
• Redesigned CLI tool increasing usage by 500%
• Mentored a successfully launched intern project

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Provo, Utah Area

• Improved running time of integration tests by 15% by adding single setup and running in parallel
• Designed and wrote back-end API for new app managing OAuth access tokens anticipated to increase number of third party developers while decreasing support calls by 5%
• Debugged and fixed server outage problem preventing ability to roll code deploys
• Created Dashboard for viewing key data points, allowing for better goal visibility

Jun 2012 – Apr 2013 · 10 mos · Draper, UT

• Researched and analyzed several web and mobile applications providing a more flexible and secure workplace for client corporations
• Established new method for how research is organized allowing multiple teams to access needed information quickly
• Modified program by highlighting normal patterns resulting in faster and effective research
• Designed and automated process for tracking subdomains increasing classification accuracy by 4%

Sep 2011 – Jun 2012 · 9 mos · Provo, Utah Area

Jul 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Marshall Islands