May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Dayton, Ohio, United States · Hybrid

• I designed and implemented network infrastructure, hardware provisioning, and virtual device provisioning using ansible and Kubernetes (k3s.io) on on-prem hardware including bespoke, purpose hardware provided by the Air Force. Implemented AI / ML / CS training, execution, library, and API daemons and processes that ran on custom and commodity hardware to support the cognitively enhanced complex event processing and autonomy mission. This included complex natural language processing and retrieval-augmented generation. Created job scheduling tools in Python and Rust for bare metal, virtual machine, and distributed system container orchestration and management.

Aug 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

• Implemented the proof of concept that became our core platform including AI/ML prediction engine and SaaS product using Python. Currently supporting hundreds of tenants at thousands of invoices an hour. Designed, implemented, maintained, and enhanced application platform and underlying AWS infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform. Enabled rapid scale up of tenants to new datacenters within minutes.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

• Designed and implemented Go driven service-discovery mechanism using multi-cluster, multi-cloud, multi-region Kubernetes operators in Go with envoy sidecars.

May 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Scaled the Sproutling organization into the Mattel Connected Products Platform division within Mattel that was responsible for products across major organization lines including Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Fisher Price. Worked with multiple functional and cross-functional teams to support existing and create new toy lines. Hot Wheels ID is an example of one product that included the creation of entirely new technologies and manufacturing processes. Provided consultation across the organization on technical and non-technical solutions to meet business needs. One example was the architecture of identity management systems and the wholistic replacement of mixed legacy authentication across Mattel.

Sep 2014 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• Implemented a replacement of legacy .net application stack with modern tooling that lead to substantial reduction in production infrastructure cost and 10x increase in web application response times. Hired and managed team of local and remote technical and non-technical staff including .Net, Node, and Angular teams as well as technical writing.

May 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Campbell, CA · Remote

Mar 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Irvine, CA · On-site

Oct 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

Nov 2006 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

Jan 2006 – Nov 2006 · 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Aug 2005 – Dec 2005 · 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site