May 2021 – Feb 2026 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Maintain multi-tenant enterprise semantic search services for GitHub Copilot AI on the Blackbird team. Lead internal Rust adoption efforts. Maintain internal Go libraries for logging and telemetry. Optimize the internal development lifecycle for GitHub employees: setup, workflow, tooling, CI/CD, production. Improve production deployment tooling (Rails), internal slack chatops, service orchestration w/k8s.

Feb 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Manage engineering work for internal services and infrastructure which store, operate on, and transmit Git Repositories.

Sep 2019 – Feb 2020 · 5 mos

• Manage engineering work for internal services and infrastructure which store, operate on, and transmit Git Repositories.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Manage engineering work for internal services and infrastructure which store, operate on, and transmit Git Repositories.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2017 · 5 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Develop Enterprise Translation Management System for Amazon-wide use for all translation needs.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 4 mos · Cedar Hills, Utah

• I am one of the world's top Rust instructors, with multiple top-rated and best-selling courses and over 30,000 students across Udemy, O'Reilly online, and Packt as of 2023. I specialize in teaching Rust crash courses, Rust fundamentals, and Rust intermediate topics to professional programmers who want to learn Rust as their next language.
• I also make independent video games. In Rust.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2017 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Orem, Utah

• Direct the engineering, development, and daily operatons of the online scanning products at SecurityMetrics. Responsible for passing annual ASV Lab Scan Testing. This position involves coordinating with product management, development, support, and operations. I also get to do a lot of Python development. SecurityMetrics is a Payment Card Industry Approved Scan Vendor (PCI ASV).

Feb 2007 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Orem, Utah

• Created and managed the Operations department. Also oversaw the creation and management of the Penetriation Testing department. Hired and managed all Operations Developers and Operations Engineers at SecurityMetrics. Directed all internal application development, corporate IT infrastructure operations. Oversaw all datacenter and corporate IT procurement.

Oct 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · Orem, Utah

• Responsible to keep all production corporate infrastructure systems operational including computer systems, phone systems, data center systems, and networking components. Ensure systems were well secured and conformed to corporate security policies. Help create requirements for products for which I would have operations responsibility. Related duties include monitoring logs and system performance, maintaining security patches, ensuring physical security of computer systems and corporate offices, maintaining remote corporate VOIP and computer systems (telecommuting from home or abroad), and maintaining systems that I created as a developer in the past.

Apr 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos · Orem, Utah

• Earned Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Architected and designed security vulnerability scanning software, and then implemented the design with a team of software developers. Planned and implemented multiple additions and upgrades to the corporate data-center infrastructure. Coordinated with internal groups on new web applications for internal use and new products/features to be developed. Built, installed, configured, and operated web servers, database servers, chart/image servers, routing servers, firewall servers, telephony servers (Asterisk), and other special-purpose servers both for use at the corporate data-center and office. Trained new developers on company policy and procedures regarding software development. Administered the corporate database and managed backups for both the datacenter and office.

Mar 2003 – Apr 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo · Orem, Utah

• Reviewed and migrated manual internal business processes to secure, automated process. Maintained and implemented new features on legacy SecurityMetrics security vulnerability scanning software. Increased integration between the SecurityMetrics web site and the SecurityMetrics scanning software, enabling the release of new scanning products. Continued to handle most graphic design and production work for corporate literature, business cards, letterhead, web site, etc.

Mar 2001 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs · Orem, Utah

• Created and maintained all dynamic and static web-content and handled all graphic design on the SecurityMetrics website. Designed and implemented an interactive, scalable, database-driven web site for purchasing, using, and managing SecurityMetrics’ products online. Features of the site include internal security, ability to purchase and run SecurityMetrics security vulnerability scanning tools, data collection & analysis, and compliance management tools for enterprise customers.

Dec 1998 – Dec 2000 · 2 yrs · St. Petersburg, Russia

• Full-time volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (lds.org) in and around St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia.

Jun 1998 – Dec 1998 · 6 mos · Provo, Utah, United States

• Web development and graphic design for the company web site.

May 1997 – Dec 1998 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Production graphic design and layout using Quark Express, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.