Cruise 2022 - 2025

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

I created the observability platform and guide the roadmap, identifying business opportunities and ensuring the platform scales in capability and usability over time.

• Created overarching technical vision for observability across all engineering. Led execution of wholesale observability migration out of Datadog, completed in 6 months and delivering 7-figure cost savings (50%) per year without compromising on reliability or developer execution.
• Led a high-performing team maintaining large-scale (TB/day) internal data products with strong reliability standards.
• Integrated generative AI for developer triage workflows and formalized an evaluation framework to enable teams to rapidly iterate independently and effectively.

Meta 2022

Production Engineer

I didn't have the opportunity to work long after being hired as I was laid off along with most new hires in November 2022.

Chameleon Cloud 2018 - 2022

Development and Operations Lead

I was responsible for organizing all development and operations contributions from staff located in multiple facilities; functionally, this role "steers the ship" of a mid-scale research cyberinfrastructure, working closely with the PI (Principal Investigator).

• Delivered novel testbed platform for edge/IoT research by extending existing OpenStack and Kubernetes components. MVP in 5 months (design and implementation.)
• Migrated infrastructure to federated identity, improving onboarding UX for users while decoupling IAM concerns from existing applications. This made it feasible to scale the number of Chameleon deployments nationwide.
• Developed, maintained, and extended the cloud computing control plane that powers six installations of Chameleon, providing clusters of KVM, bare metal and edge/IoT resources. Worked on a daily basis w/ a wide variety of tools and technologies across systems, networking, and storage.

SoundCloud 2014 - 2018

Tech Lead (Security), Full-Stack Engineer

• Identified and mitigated organizational risk in multiple areas (e.g., application security, network security, abuse, insider threat.)
• Designed or rearchitected several microservices to power features aimed at the creator community.
• Enabled tighter feedback loop between product and engineering by automating staging releases for every GitHub pull request.
• Rewrote in-house application bundler for soundcloud.com using Webpack. Introduced a private NPM registry and fostered an ecosystem of shared core libraries that improved code-reuse across all web properties.

BandPage 2009 - 2014

Frontend Team Lead

• Implemented frontend stack for initial product, which supported over 20 million monthly active users on Facebook.
• Architected custom Javascript UI framework to allow team to meet needs in scalable code and fast iteration, handling persistence, routing, rendering and data management.
• Guided team through several major refactorings of a large codebase.

Washington University in St. Louis 2005 - 2009

B.S. Computer Science