Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Mar 2020 – Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• Responsibilities:
• Full-stack software engineering: Write code in any of the frontend or backend codebases as needed.
• Infrastructure: Deploy the services, microservices, and supporting components using architectural best practices. Keep the site healthy by maintaining the monitoring pipeline and applying regular updates and security patches.
• DevOps: Help other developers succeed by curating and troubleshooting a local development environment. Automate deployment and release processes wherever possible.
• Accomplishments:
• Architected the deployment for our new, public-facing 'Secretary of State' product. Facilitated product launch by assisting with frontend and backend code, as well as provisioning the infrastructure.
• Provisioned Kubernetes clusters, and migrated the company's applications and scheduled jobs
• Streamlined the local development experience with Tilt
• Authored internal tools (scripts distributed in a Homebrew tap, Gradle plugin) to increase developer productivity

Oct 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

• Member of the Argo Tunnel team (known today as Cloudflare Tunnel), enabling customers to securely connect their servers to the Cloudflare edge network.
• Responsibilities:
• Maintained a daemon process that runs on each of Cloudflare's edge nodes, as well as a highly-available control plane. Collaborated with other engineering teams to ensure smooth interaction with other services in the Cloudflare ecosystem.
• Maintained the client application deployed on customer servers. As needed, troubleshooted issues with connectivity and memory consumption.
• Accomplishments:
• Integrated various services into a local developer experience via Tilt
• Modified the edge nodes' codebase (which was, at the time, in Lua) to enable the named tunnels initiative
• Provisioned automated acceptance tests of the client application on Windows and Linux servers

Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Designed and maintained endpoints for the mobile app API
• Ingested content from diverse data sources; transformed and analyzed it via ETL jobs; published content to external consumers
• Maintained monitoring and alerting systems, and provided maintenance on-call
• Achievements:
• Migrated the API from a static set of EC2 instances to a highly-available service with autoscaling baked in
• Released a new geofence admin tool to facilitate high-quality location-specific content

Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos

Aug 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Taught students in person: guided in-class lab work in a "flipped classroom" setup, as well as running office hours. Prepared homework assignments by curating Facebook and Google Maps datasets for student use. Graded homework and exams.

Sep 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Interacted helpfully with patrons. Assisted Librarians and other Library staff. Checked library materials in and out (books, CDs, study room keys). Watched the front door and signed in visitors.