May 2025 – Nov 2025 · 6 mos · Remote

• Manage a team of 5 ICs and $1.7 million a month in cloud spend across AWS, GCP and Azure infrastructure.

Apr 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

• Built out dbt’s Google Cloud Platform infrastructure from scratch: GKE, networking (NCC hub, PSC, VPC), data stores, etc.
• Managed AWS and Azure infrastructure via terraform.

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• Owned all cloud infrastructure for Strava, all hosted on AWS.

May 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Working within the camera hardware department, providing peers with data to help drive decisions. Technologies used include internal CI/CD tools, Kubernetes, Splunk, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, FastAPI, and Python's asyncio.

Sep 2020 – May 2021 · 8 mos · Remote

• An engineering role focused on integrating various Confluent products in order to provide internal feedback and create technical content for the Apache Kafka and Confluent communities. Two main projects, one on observability: using the Confluent Metrics API and open-source software to create a robust tutorial. The other on applying event streaming concepts to enterprise integration patterns particularly with ksqlDB and Kafka streams. All work is done in Docker locally or in Confluent Cloud.

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Responsible for managing 3 Kafka clusters: roughly half a petabyte of ingress + egress a day in production. Design and maintain Scala and Spark enrichment and aggregation jobs in self managed Mesos/Marathon cluster. Create and manage robust REST APIs. Frequently debugging networking issues with Wireshark and Linux networking tools. Proficient in Dockerizing applications, learning k8s. Participate in on-call rotation where 24/7 support is provided and often utilized. Ensure best security practices are used to keep data and logs compliant with global regulations: think LDAP, JWT, Kerberos, centralized logging. Maintain infrastructure with Ansible. Cost consciousness with AWS services.

Aug 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Collaborator in a DevOps team whose primary focus is network performance management, alerting, auto-remediation, and visualization via Splunk. Serve as an xMatters administrator, giving support to various DevOps teams and maintaining the general well-being of the environment. Personally proposed and led development of a Python API wrapper for Splunk’s IT Service Intelligence application.
• Participated in training for xMatter’s administrators and Splunk Fundamentals I & II.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

• Drove development to deliver a network performance monitoring tool. Implemented a novel AI based off of a plethora of scholarly papers. Heavily immersed in an agile environment. Worked with Python, Splunk, and Docker. Won second place in a companywide hackathon out of 25.

Sep 2017 – Sep 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Received a scholarship to attend a weekend long conference for queer undergrads interested in tech at Twitter's headquarters.

Feb 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Mentor and lab facilitator to introductory computer science course. Ran tutoring sessions for the data structures course. Mastered the ability to translate concepts in a simplistic way for the benefit of students. Fostered collaborative technical problem solving skill environment where students learn to quickly debug Java and Python code.

Feb 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Hand selected as the grant recipient by a computer science professor to work on CyberKnight, an educational video game. Reverse engineered UC Berkeley’s open source project Snap! to be used as part of a graphical interface for the video game. Advanced professional documentation; presented findings to academic peer-to-peer conferences of 25-40; improved my understanding of Java and JavaScript. Produced an academic paper.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Joliet, IL

• Handles customer relations. Responsible for large sums of money. Looks out for theatre safety.