Resume

Experience

Staff Software Engineer · Austin, Texas

Serving as technical lead for inventory management systems within H-E-B's stores across Texas
Leading efforts to replace legacy Java monoliths with modern Python gRPC services powering new mobile and web applications
Managing Python services and jobs within Kubernetes on GKE alongside on-premises VMs
Supporting parallel efforts to maintain the legacy applications and ensure they continue to be valuable to H-E-B's employees while we build the next generation of tools
Designing and implementing Protobuf-based interfaces in coordination with frontend engineers
Working closely with business stakeholders and product owners to evaluate, refine, and deliver requirements in support of H-E-B's growing grocery business
Implemented and maintaining an OpenTelemetry-based observability initiative, using DataDog to provide monitoring and dashboards for multiple applications
Helping to guide team of ~12 engineers through feature design and implementation
Regularly presenting at and coordinating internal education meetings, ensuring that the team stays on top of industry developments

Senior Developer · Austin, Texas

Worked on Technology Strategy Team, leading efforts to help modernize stacks to cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes
Built out Docker plugins providing integrations with multiple SolarWinds products
Designed and implemented full stack internal application for employee recognition
Taught introductory Go course to SolarWinds international offices in Poland
Conducted multiple Kubernetes training courses for employees around the globe
Built multiple microservices in Go

Senior Platform Engineer · Austin, Texas

Developing and maintaining various new and existing Go web servers and tools
Maintaining and updating legacy Rails applications powering Bypass APIs
Led and completed full user migration to new auth system, decoupling it from legacy system and databases
Designing and implementing tooling to enable operations to more easily deploy and monitor existing deployments
Ensuring quality and consistency across systems via Amazon Lambdas performing periodic data checks and reports
Working closely with SREs and infrastructure teams to help scaling efforts, including regular on-call shifts

Platform Engineer · Austin, Texas

Contributing to all aspects of the Umbel data ingestion and display systems, focused on Django web development and Celery-based async processing
Developing meaningful integrations with third party APIs, including Facebook's Graph and Marketing APIs
Utilizing a wide range of data stores and supporting tools, mainly MySQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch
Resurrected multiple product features from bug hell, including Facebook campaign reporting and full text search
Lead developer on efforts to integrate acquired application running Rails with Umbel's REST APIs
Utility developer for the frontend application, jumping in and being immediately productive using React and consuming the Django-based APIs
Used Go for time-sensitive data processing, reading and writing Cassandra and MySQL at speeds unreachable through the existing Python infrastructure

Full Stack Software Engineer · Austin, Texas

Maintained and extended Python web application to power the Curb API, using Pyramid, Postgres, and InfluxDB
Developed various frontend applications, including the main Curb PhoneGap mobile app and accompanying web app, using React and Backbone
Implemented new server applications for data collection from the field in Haskell, using MQTT and Postgres
Supported development, deployment and testing with Vagrant, Jenkins, Docker, and Ansible

Software Engineer · Austin, Texas

Worked with small team on the ClearBlade platform, a backend as a service offering with consumer SDKs exposing a database, message broker, code services, analytics, and push notifications
Developed front-end UI for the platform, working mainly with Angular
Contributed to the Go server-side systems, utilizing Cassandra and Postgres data stores
Lead engineer on ClearCode, a Node.js-based sandbox environment for customers to create services & integrations
Worked with clients as a developer advocate to collect feedback, respond to problems, and ease adoption of the ClearBlade platform

Associate Server Engineer · Austin, Texas

Developed and managed existing backend systems for Pearson, consisting of a Django API backed by Postgres and CouchDB

BA in English — Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 2008–2012

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