Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Always looking to learn and solve new problems.
Architected and scaled distributed, cloud-native systems leveraging microservices, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and serverless patterns to deliver resilient, high-performance developer tooling. Led end-to-end ownership of critical platform features, driving technical strategy, design reviews, roadmap planning, and cross-team alignment across product, design, and security. Championed developer productivity and CI/CD excellence, optimizing pipelines, reducing deployment time by double-digit percentages, and introducing automation that saved thousands of engineering hours. Delivered production-grade code in large-scale, globally distributed environments, applying advanced patterns in API design, observability, reliability engineering, and performance optimization. Expert in high-impact technologies including TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL and modern cloud platforms (Azure).
Engaged across product and backend teams to design and develop a security policy proxy implementation for npm Enterprise SaaS product enabling a new customer facing security product allowing rules to be applied to packages downloaded through npmE registries. Designed, developed, and maintained internal chatbot-based tooling which enabled a 60% increase of support team productivity in the area of case resolution. Lead a project to research and validate the use of Slack API, Yargs argument parser library, and several internal microservice API clients to enable and present support staff with dynamic pricing tiers based on customer requirements. On call engineering rotation for customer escalations to identify and fix internal and external system bugs and outages to maintain internal SLO’s and customer SLA for the web UI and backend. Responsible for designing and implementing new feature test automation using Mocha, Node-Tap, Jest, Sinon, and Travis Ci.
Conducted 100+ teaching, lecture, and one on one sessions with 300+ beginner and intermediate level engineers. Responsible for mentoring 50+ students specifically on JavaScript data structure/algorithm problem solving skills to master challenging topics and concepts. Conducted 80+ code reviews to evaluate the technical skill sets of JavaScript focused engineers.
Implemented Visual Basic Macros in Microsoft Excel to red flag potential fraud in client Mutual fund accounts resulting in 50% discovery increase over manual processes.