Sarasota, Florida, United States
Passionate software engineer with over 20 years of experience designing scalable, high-impact systems and leading technical teams. I thrive at the intersection of deep technical problem-solving, architecture, and team enablement—guiding teams to build better software while improving engineering culture and processes. Core Competencies: • Technical Leadership & Mentorship – Supporting and growing engineers through guidance, sponsorship, and coaching. • System Architecture & Design – Defining scalable, resilient architectures that drive long-term success. • Process Optimization & Best Practices Development – Improving engineering workflows, reducing friction, and fostering technical excellence. • Cross-Functional Collaboration – Bridging the gap between engineering, product, and leadership to align technical direction with business needs. **Please note: My professional network is genuine. With rare exception, I don’t accept cold connection requests from people I’ve never met or have no direct professional connection to.**
• Provide personalized support to prospective and existing customers across the US through phone, text, email, and video, helping them make informed purchasing decisions and optimize their Omlet product setups. • Host in-person tours at my Southwest Florida property, offering hands-on demonstrations and real-world examples of Omlet’s backyard chicken products. • Collaborate with program admins to refine the ambassador experience, contributing feedback and insights that improve program effectiveness and customer satisfaction. • Host visiting Omlet product engineers during US market tours, providing direct customer feedback and context to inform product design and marketing strategies.
Served as Tech Lead and Architect across high-stakes billing, business compliance, and AI enablement infrastructure streams, safeguarding a revenue platform scaling past $200M ARR. Focused heavily on scaling developer velocity, building architectural observability, and driving technical excellence across a rapidly growing platform team. Key Impact: - Solo Architecture & Delivery: Independently owned and shipped an end-to-end legal compliance and polymorphic policy versioning framework, absorbing a full-time, two-engineer product timeline ahead of schedule. - AI Orchestration & Tooling: Designed, deployed, and open-sourced advanced agentic development frameworks (ai-tools and to-wit) that automated parallel engineering workstreams across isolated git worktrees. - Platform Stabilization: Spearheaded the hardening of high-frequency Stripe and Salesforce data synchronization pipelines, implementing structured logging and Datadog monitoring to radically reduce integration failures. - Operational Scaffolding: Codified tribal on-call workflows into a highly searchable engineering Playbooks discipline, establishing explicit team-wide SLAs as the department scaled from 4 to 10 developers. - AI Enablement Leadership: Formed and led a cross-functional AI Skills Committee to mitigate developer prompt friction, and independently authored a leveled AI Engineering Competency Matrix to ensure professional growth paths for junior engineers. - Growth Engineering: Spearheaded high-visibility product-led growth (PLG) A/B testing configurations, successfully increasing conversion metrics via context-driven user experience strategies.
• Took a deliberate pause to reflect on long-term goals, assess potential career pivots, and reset professionally, including evaluating opportunities in renewable energy and other industries. • Used platforms like Brilliant and Udemy to refresh technical skills and explore new areas of interest, including electrical systems and practical problem-solving. • Prioritized personal growth and well-being, gaining a clearer sense of balance and purpose after more than two decades in high-impact technical roles. • Spent quality time with family and friends, including visiting family out of state and a snowboarding trip to Oregon and Idaho. • Managed maintenance and upgrades on vacation property, preparing it for first guests and gaining hands-on experience with off-grid solar systems. • Tackled long-overdue home improvement projects, applying technical problem-solving skills in a hands-on context.
As a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, I've worked on a variety of teams, including Code Search, Ruby Infrastructure, and Security Products, as well as ad hoc groups working on system stability, diversity, mentorship, and internal communication systems. I collaborated with design and product teams to define deliverables and refine scope, and have represented GitHub in outside working groups with Google and security product customers. In addition to contributing to several open source projects, I've delivered presentations on mentorship and technical topics, performed technical research and data analysis, and implemented runbooks, best practice documents, ADRs, alert monitors, and metrics dashboards. Technologies used include Ruby, Rails, Sorbet, TypeScript, Protobuf, Docker, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Kafka, Go, and other open source and proprietary tools.
As a Senior Software Engineer at BrightBytes, I was responsible for overseeing a suite of tools called the Data Pipeline process. This process was used across the organization as the primary means to import, transform, and export customer data for aggregate analysis and to create a common data model. My responsibilities included maintaining several internal tools, Ruby gems, libraries, and processes, working with the Research and Analytics team on future needs, leading archeology discovery sessions to help understand the evolution, history and use cases for the existing tools, and working on future roadmap planning. Throughout these efforts, I used a range of technologies, including Ruby, Rails, AWS, Redshift, Postgres, Docker, Convox, Python, and other open source tools.