Jul 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Staff engineer across multiple teams, including leading growth team and running data-driven experiments to increase adoption of Honeycomb’s core observability product. Also formed Honeycomb’s first machine-learning engineering team.
• Built ML-powered Query Assistant from proof-of-concept to full production launch
• Designed, executed, and measure results of experiments across the new-user onboarding process, from signup flow to first product use
• Enhanced analytic data produced across the product stack, from data ingest process up through UI frontend
• Built Gradle plugin to visualize build trace in OpenTelemetry to identify and fix bottlenecks in Gradle builds
• Mentored junior engineers in software engineering, career, and leadership growth areas

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Staff backend engineer on the Logistics Platform team, helping build the technology that powers DoorDash deliveries.
• Enhanced multiple high-volume tier-0 Java/Kotlin services
• Solved challenging technical issues that the team previously could not solve, such as Redis connection thrashing
• Reduced diagnosis time of production issues through increased metrics and monitoring
• Wrote detailed post-mortems and implemented action items after production incidents
• Shared knowledge across team through presentations and written docs
• Mentored junior and senior engineers in JVM tech and testing practices

Dec 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Principal engineer across 80+ engineers on 10+ teams in transportation technology organization
• Architected transition from siloed products to platform of shared capabilities leveraged across the organization
• Created and organized 30+ lightning talk sessions to share tech and product knowledge across teams
• Designed and built shared libraries to improve developer productivity and solve pain points across the wider Target tech organization
• Built alert visibility tool and advocated for alerting and on-call best practices across the tech organization

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Lead engineer on multiple teams throughout the supply chain organization
• Improved performance and scalability 16x of high-load application to handle estimated peak season load
• Joined an existing team that was struggling with software quality issues and production outages. Lead the team to significantly improve testing through unit, integration, functional, and load testing
• Lead the effort to reduce a team's on-call pages from averaging dozens a day to less than one a day
• Lead development of scalable, highly-available backend services using a variety of technologies - including Kotlin, Groovy, Java, Spring Boot, and Ratpack
• Enhanced internal support tool to improve speed and reliability of production data recovery

Dec 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Delivered business-critical features across full application stack to enable users to improve their build speed and reliability
• Extensively tested code with Spock and Jest unit tests and Geb browser tests
• Wrote blog posts for Gradle blog educating customers on advanced usage of Build Scans
• Worked on fully-distributed team with team members from Europe, Australia, and the US

Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Design, develop, and lead critical web application development projects
• Contribute to software development community through conference presentations, tech talks, and blog posts
• Interview potential candidates

Jan 2012 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Feb 2011 – Oct 2011 · 8 mos

• Software consultant specializing in Groovy/Grails web applications. Currently working on a Grails project with a small startup client.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Lead development team responsible for main user-facing applications
• Key contributor on multiple business-critical applications with JVM backends and JavaScript frontends
• Created extensive automated browser functional test suites to verify application changes and reduce regressions
• Interviewed potential candidates and mentored new team members

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos

• Server-side developer and architect for RESTful Grails application.

Oct 2011 – Jan 2012 · 3 mos

• Startup company developing SAP-certified dynamic-discounting software suite.
• Working on web-based portion of the software suite, a Groovy/Grails web app.

Sep 2010 – Feb 2011 · 5 mos

• Founder of small, privately held software development company, specializing in web applications in the content management space.
• Built two web applications recently in Groovy and Grails. Also created two web applications in the Scala language with the Lift web framework.

Jul 2006 – Sep 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Range of software engineering duties, from design and development to testing.

Jun 2005 – Sep 2005 · 3 mos

• Created software prototype to restore implantable defibrillator devices affected by cancer radiation treatment.
• Developed prototype of streamlined field delivery system for medical device software tools.