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• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Mar, 2022 - Present

  I'm Integrating cert-manager into VMware's Supervisor Cluster to enable cloud agnostic certificate management.

  • Streamlined build and testing systems to ensure high-quality code. Templates I created reduced human error by eliminating dozens of manual steps and wiki pages.

  • Built out half a dozen alarms to monitor certificate services to ensure 99.9% availability for certificate management and meet the company’s service-level objectives.

  • Collected metrics from hundreds of deployed certificate management services to display the overall health of the certificate service

  • Discovered a critical bug causing Supervisor Service enablements to occasionally fail. I was able trace and fix the upstream bug and submit a patch that was accepted into the community.

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Aug, 2021 - Feb, 20226 months

  As a senior software engineer, I united several disparate apps into a single domain to create a more cohesive user experience.

  • Unified half a dozen Rally applications onto a single domain by building several robust Scala microservices that transformed URLs per customer configurations

  • Automated stress testing via JMeter to uncover three significan performance bugs

• Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Computer Scientist R & D, 

  Jun, 2020 - Aug, 20211 year 2 months

  I provided Fullstack engineering solutions for mission-critical applications such as map displays, sensor data streaming applications, and deployment orchestration. I played a crucial role in architecting efficient services, as well as distributed service design.

  • Reduced the number of redundant service calls in cloud services from four to one with architecture changes

  • Improved efficiency of plotting high-volume data in the front-end using Level of Detail algorithm, effectively improving frame rate from 10-20 FPS to 50+ FPS

  • Built reactive components for request/stream in HTTP2 for sending Websocket data

  • Integrated Cesium Map into web display for visualizing sensor stations in real-time

  • Deployed dozens of services into Kubernetes cluster and built supporting liveness and readiness probes into existing applications

  • Provided architecture guidance and prototypes for streaming sensor data using Kafka

  • Wrote dozens of endpoint scripts that uncovered hundreds of bugs in various Java services

• CTO/Cofounder, 

  Jun, 2018 - Jun, 20202 years

  Lens flips the data market by putting individuals in control and ownership of their data and allows them to share that information through subscriptions. I built and architected the technical vision that aligned with the morals and direction of Lens and led a small team of highly talented engineers.

  • Created and deployed hundreds of microservices on top of AWS infrastructure, written in Typescript and Javascript to support business needs.

  • Throughout the Lens journey, I pivoted the technology quickly support business objectives and constraints.

  • Successfully completed Quake Capital's accelerator program

  • Led development team to focus on Web 3.0 values such as digital equity and data dignity.

  • Supported and developed React.js front-end applications.

  • Wrote and filed a non-provisional patent for technology developed at Lens.

  • Wrote security protocols on top of frameworks such as libsodium, tweetnacl, and the Noise Protocol Framework

  • Created dozens of experimental applications using decentralized technologies such as the Dat Project, IPFS, and Blockstack.

  • Developed an iOS and progressive web application for end-user consumption

  • Wrote technical and general-purpose articles on Medium explaining Lens and Lens technology for company evangelism.

  • Automated the deployment of services using Gitlab's CI/CD system in conjunction with serverless.

  • Created Lens integrations with technology such as Mailchimp, Twilio, and Salesforce.

  • Made a custom OS for the Raspberry Pi using BuildRoot to support Lens hardware endeavours.

• Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Computer Scientist R&D, 

  Nov, 2014 - Jun, 20183 years 7 months

  Committed to science with the mission in mind, Sandia creates innovative, science-based, systems-engineering solutions to our nation's most challenging national security problems. I was a core developer for image processing and geolocation applications for laboratory driven space missions.

  • Developed a Vue.js web-app for aiding statisticians to formulate models for Sandia's Probabilistic Feature Fusion algorithm.

  • Re-implemented legacy geolocation algorithms to be performant and scalable in cloud architectures in C++ and Cuda.

  • Designed a highly scalable and low latency system for digital elevation lookups leveraging AWS ECS, Elasticache, and API Gateway.

  • Implemented a microservice for transforming and parsing raw streaming data into a distilled format for downstream use. Project leveraged Docker and Kubernetes for easy deployment and scalability.

  • Performed trade studies on various elevation lookup algorithms and the effect these algorithms would have on overall geolocation accuracy in Sandia's assets.

  • Taught several workshops on testing and writing software with best practices in mind, specifically for C++.

  • Mentored students from the University of Illinois, Urbanna-Champaign, to establish a hiring pipeline for Sandia. I created and was project lead on several space mission-related projects for the students to realize.

  • Designed and maintained automatic system integration tests to ensure highly functional code for customer delivery

  • Implemented microservice for storing and retrieving camera bias frames for use by downstream geolocation users

• Real-Time Software Engineer, 

  May, 2012 - Oct, 20142 years 5 months

  Boeing LTS in Maui is responsible for a variety of space missions such as space situational awareness and adaptive optics technology. I was a C++ developer for real-time control systems and object tracking algorithms on for AFRL telescopes on Haleakala, Maui, HI. My work in this area included algorithms for tracking satellites and stars for real-time analysis, software for real-time control loops, operator GUIs in QT, C++ interfaces to cameras and hardware, and also maintained and deployed software via RPMs on RedHat Linux.

  • Wrote algorithms in C/C++ for tracking satellites and stars in real-time

  • Wrote software for telescope pointing and tracking systems

  • Maintained QT GUIs for operator control of telescopes on Haleakala

  • Wrote C/C++ interfaces to hardware such as fast steering mirrors, translation stages, and laser systems

  • Deployed software to the operational telescope system using RPMs on Redhat Linux

• Real-Time Software Engineer, 

  May, 2010 - May, 20122 years

  My responsibilities at Boeing DES were focused on video and image processing using state-of-the-art FPGA devices. I was responsible for writing many low-level interfaces to the memories that we installed on the boards, as well as writing Matlab code for video processing algorithms that would later be transpiled to VHDL.

  • Designed firmware to interface with flash memories.

  • Wrote C drivers for a command and control interface to various cameras.

  • Developed a Java GUI to command and control various cameras us- ing Rs-232 and TCP/IP.

  • Developed camera simulator in VHDL to mimic phenomenology of Mercury Cadmium Telluride cameras.

  • Wrote firmware to save image data coming from a camera to QDR memory for software retrieval.

  • Developed various image enhancement algorithms in System Generator for video enhancement and video processing.

  • Translated a MATLAB focal plane array model to a system genera- tor model for scene injection into tracker software and hardware for camera emulation.

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