Mar 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

• Led front-end, backend, infrastructure and full-stack engineering teams. This included both product engineering delivering Docker Scout and Platform engineering enhancing shared UI components, access management, billing, observability, data engineering and infrastructure.
• Launched operational reviews, standardizing incident response and reducing time to mitigate.

Oct 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Founded the platform engineering division and expanded the team from 50 to 125 globally distributed engineers during a period of hypergrowth.
• Oversaw a comprehensive suite of core functions, including AI for code analysis, UI platform and shared components, cloud infrastructure, SRE, observability, identity and access management, data platforms, and shared product services.
• Pioneered the transition from a monolithic architecture to a FedRAMP compliant microservices model deployed across multiple data centers in the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Transformed scalability and reliability by reducing incidents by 90%, cutting reporting latency from 20 hours to 20 minutes.

Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Defined the MVP and launched “GitHub AE,” a FedRAMP High SaaS offering for Enterprises.
• Oversaw GitHub Enterprise Server (the on-prem offering) and the GitHub.com platform, including identity, billing, API, service frameworks, CI/CD, and developer experience.
• Led a company-wide initiative to modernize the service architecture by standardizing containers in Kubernetes, enhancing reliability, availability, and scalability.

Jun 1997 – Nov 2019 · 22 yrs 5 mos

• Group Engineering Manager - Redmond, WA
• App Center:
• Launched a mobile-first DevOps platform delivering real-time application analytics, diagnostics, push notifications, device testing, and cloud build services for app developers.
• Established a remote-first engineering culture while utilizing Kanban to prioritize customer and business needs.
• Azure:
• Modernized legacy service architectures, reducing costs by 40%, eliminating noisy neighbor contention in a multi-tenant environment, and achieving 99.999% uptime.
• Launched the open source AutoRest tool to leverage OpenAPI, standardizing SDK development across 120+ Azure services, supporting multiple programming languages.
• Xbox:
• Led the design and development of the Xbox One asset pipeline, enabling game studios to manage content, pricing, and secure testing in production.
• Eliminated the need for proprietary third-party content management tools, reduced annual spend by $6M, and cut support tickets by 50%.
• Director of Development - Shanghai, China
• Built a regional development center for engineers, product managers, and vendors focused on Microsoft’s developer tools (Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET Framework).
• Principal Engineering Manager - Redmond, WA
• Progressed from Software Engineer through to Principal Engineering Manager delivering multiple versions of Microsoft’s web developer tools and frameworks. Co-authored multiple books and secured 9 patents in web development.