Feb 2025 – Jun 2025 · 4 mos · Remote

Mar 2022 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs · Remote

• Identity, Billing Platform and Growth Teams
• Leading multiple strategic initiatives around cloud billing, identity management, onboarding, and product-led growth at Apollo GraphQL. Actively hiring for high-performing engineers from industry leading organizations.
• Spearheaded the adoption of usage-based pricing to power all Apollo cloud product offerings, enabling greater flexibility and scalability
• Led the enablement of enterprise features for Apollo Router through the implementation of a robust, net-new enterprise licensing system
• Oversaw the successful migration from PingOne to a resilient in-house SSO system, enhancing security and streamlining user management
• Supervising the development and maintenance of our billing and identity microservices, ensuring high performance and reliability
• Driving greenfield projects focused on empowering developers to seamlessly connect new and existing GraphQL APIs to Apollo's platform
• Optimizing the onboarding journey for developers new to GraphQL and promoting adoption within large scale engineering organizations
• Achievements:
• Awarded Apollo's prestigious Leadership Award (1 recipient per year) in the Engineering Department (2023), recognizing exceptional leadership and impact
• Won Apollo's 2024 internal hackathon, delivering an e2e live demo app for customers showcasing Apollo Router, Apollo Connectors, and Apollo Subscriptions
• Passionate about leveraging innovative technologies to solve complex challenges and deliver exceptional developer experiences. Committed to fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.

Sep 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Core Team (Bestow's first enterprise engineering team)
• Engineering lead for company's first SaaS offering - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/equitable-and-bestow-partner-to-launch-digital-term-life-insurance-offering-301440036.html
• Our team's software enables life insurance carriers and partners to run their insurance business through our platforms

Nov 2019 – Sep 2020 · 10 mos

• Policy Platform
• Go
• JavaScript
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• gRPC

May 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Santa Monica, CA

• Go
• JavaScript
• Docker
• gRPC
• Linux
• React Native
• Redux
• Yocto & x86 shenanigans
• Spearheaded the development of several GNARBOX mobile applications, microservices, and hardware integrations.
• Designed, implemented, and containerized the microservice architecture for GNARBOX utilizing Docker and Go.
• Developed a seamless OTA update service, enabling rapid updates for the GNARBOX microservices, MCU firmware, and operating system.
• Architected and implemented network connection management software for both wired and wireless GNARBOX network connections, displaying real-time connectivity status.

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · Santa Monica, CA

• Designed the internal and external APIs for real-time data propagation up to 1 terabyte for GNARBOX mobile applications.
• Created a real-time storage detection system to immediately detect external storage devices upon insertion and support multiple filesystems.
• Developed a cloud storage sync feature to allow for the GNARBOX to auto-backup files to the cloud when an internet connection is present.

May 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Diego, California

• Assisted in research regarding a neurodegenerative disease of lower motor neurons that is triggered by an expansion of polyglutamine tracks in the androgen receptor, also known as spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)
• Handled as well as performed experiments on various cell cultures of neural cells and androgen receptor cells
• Performed dissections of mouse brain, spinal cord, and lower muscular structures