Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Nov 2024 – May 2025 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Driving the open source initiative and strategy as the company's first OSS developer advocate
• Crafting engaging developer-first content around Apache Iceberg™ and Apache Polaris™
• Supporting, growing, and promoting the open source communities

Jul 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Aug 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Helped others to get the most out of their event-driven pipelines, through:
• Chairing the Kafka Summit and Current Program Committees and building a developer-first agenda
• Presenting high-quality, engaging Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Confluent content at developer-focused conferences
• Meeting developers where they are––on social media, through blogs, in the community

May 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Worked with the data pipeline team to create new infrastructure for ingestion and processing through the integration of new technologies -- Kafka, KStreams, etc. Collaborated with other teams to meet their needs, move existing processes to new infrastructure, and monitor new processes for data consistency.
• Maintained project deadlines, estimation of work, and project planning while serving as the Scrum Master for the entire derivatives data team in San Francisco.

Sep 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Built solutions for internal clients as a member of Bloomberg's primary business intelligence and data warehousing team. Utilized a variety of technologies to create end-to-end pipelines for both large- and small-scale data ingestion into various platforms. Modeled data, performed validation, and conducted analyses using third-party data visualization tools.
• Served as a point-person for internal training on data literacy and visualization in Qlik Sense; presented curricula to hundreds of users both in our New York and London headquarters and worked with thousands of users across the globe.

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Greater Philadelphia Area

• Created lesson plans of featured topics on OCaml and Java languages to present to students in recitation format. Conducted office hour sessions to provide students with individualized assistance.

Sep 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Philadelphia Area

• Led interactive group sessions with students in order to promote interest in mathematics, computer science, and related topics varying from logic fundamentals to combinatorics and graph theory to machine learning applications. Collaborated with other leaders and graduate students to create and improve lesson plans.

May 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Philadelphia Area

• Worked under the direction of Dr. Timothy Linksvayer. Assisted professors, graduate students, and other undergraduate students in ant research. Conducted personal research on both honey bees and ants. Collected, cleansed, and maintained data; worked in R for statistical analysis.

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Philadelphia Area

• Utilized programs such as MATLAB and Ferret to conduct oceanographic research involving climate change and biogeochemistry, specialized in creating scripts to calculate and compute statistical analyses of large data sets.

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Specifically worked with the research group under Dr. David Tarpy. Designed and conducted research experiments pertaining to micro-nutrient needs of honey bees. Participated directly in hive and honey bee maintenance and general laboratory work.