Oct 2020 – Feb 2021 · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Jan 2020 – Oct 2020 · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Continued role from Pivotal following VMware acquisition

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

• Built greenfield Kubernetes service tooling in Python and Go (Golang) to enable existing Cloud Foundry customers to provision and consume Kubernetes workloads
• Expanded the Pivotal Cloud Foundry ecosystem by working directly with Mongo, Datadog, DataStax, Splunk, New Relic, Solace and other partners to build integrations
• Designed and presented software integration workshops
• Mentored less experienced team members
• Continued staff software engineer projects and responsibilities

May 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Wrote the initial Go code for one of our most used integrations (Splunk); this is deployed by customers whose environments run tens of thousands of applications
• Built the Pivotal Cloud Foundry single-click deployer published in the AWS marketplace using Python and CloudFormation
• Wrote the GCP logging integration together with Google engineers
• Automated team and partner environment provisioning with Terraform (GCP), CloudFormation (AWS), and Python
• Developed project continuous integration and deployment pipelines in Concourse
• Built clear and well documented examples that served as the core of many partners’ codebases in Go, Python, BOSH
• Part of an agile team practicing pair programming and test-driven development

Nov 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bellevue, WA

• Part of the team that built and ran AppFog, a Cloud Foundry based PaaS
• Integrated open-source Cloud Foundry into our platform by building an OpenStack API compatibility layer over CenturyLink Cloud
• Built additional services to add features like deploying directly from Github and streaming logs via websockets in Go (Golang) and Node.js
• Contributed to our infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, and BOSH
• Worked on the underlying cloud platform using Knockout, TypeScript, and C#
• Part of an agile team practicing pair programming and test-driven development

Sep 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• Wrote greenfield portfolio management tooling that expanded the product for our highest tier customers
• Built application APIs in a service-oriented architecture using Java, Groovy, Dropwizard, and Mongo
• Developed a richly interactive UI in AngularJS
• Contributed to Chef automation recipes to provision EC2 application infrastructure
• Helped build a Jenkins continuous integration pipeline to ensure unit, integration, and functional test runs against each commit
• Wrote much of our service build infrastructure, including Gradle tooling to build services and Fabric scripts that automated PhantomJS UI testing
• Practiced Lean Startup techniques to focus development and build customer empathy
• Embraced agile practices such as pair programming and test-driven development

May 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Team lead for a small group of application developers
• Provided technical expertise and leadership
• Assisted in project planning
• Worked to ensure extensible and maintainable application design
• Continued to fill the Application Developer role as a programmer and technical lead for mission critical applications

Aug 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Performed Java EE based application development
• Planned, designed, and implemented application features
• Analyzed and mined application data for stakeholders
• Mentored student developers
• Provided third-tier technical support including modification of live data to solve problems and circumvent application limitations

Jan 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Performed Java EE web application development
• Developed software using EJB 2.1, SQL, Java, Struts, and JSP
• Implemented features and fixed defects in the university's learning management system
• Assisted in requirements gathering and specification

Sep 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Provided customer facing second tier technical support
• Part of a small team responsible for the quality of applications used across the university
• Provided general quality assurance and targeted software testing
• Assisted in release management and planning