About
Senior Software Engineer with 15 years experience across big data, web, & mobile. Independent problem solver, self-taught many languages, concepts, & frameworks to create more effective systems.
Advocate for extreme ownership, experienced in leading a team, & strong in technical writing.
Passionate about learning; currently taking courses in AWS, high-performance programming, & advancing my Go skills.
Certilytics (medical big data analytics)
Remote, 2019 — 2024
Senior Software Engineer - Orchestrator,
4 years
- Designed & developed full stack automation system for Data Operations to run & monitor large scale big data pipelines.
- Reduced processing time by 60%, manual intervention by 80%.
- Wrote custom integrations & tools. Leveraged open source projects: Docker, Airflow, Dgraph, Postgres, Python, Flask, nginx.
- Built CI/CD pipelines for automation for on-prem & cloud deployment (AWS EC2, EKS).
- Cultivated strong cross-team relationships, mentored junior developers, participated in design & peer review.
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Replication,
1 year
- Migrated apps, deployments, & data to new cluster running new Hadoop version.
- Migrated data pipelines from Hive to Spark.
Getfused (digital marketing agency)
Dallas, TX & Remote, 2007 — 2019
Software Engineer III,
3 years
- Developed & owned SaaS offerings, including in-house CMS, website builder, form builder, media management, & e-commerce shop.
- Streamlined new project creation by 5x, migrated to new language implementation with 30% code reduction.
- Applied team standards for issue tracking, knowledge base, release management, & code review.
Software Engineer II, Mobile,
5 years
- Efficient in developing customizations such as integrations & tools, depending on client needs.
- 1st in-house developer for Apple systems: Native iOS apps for New England Patriots, UFC, & more.
Software Engineer I (at Edomgroup, supporting Getfused),
4 years
- Built & supported full stack websites & custom apps, including web media, e-commerce, chat, & a nationwide criminal database.
Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions (official)
Remote, 2014 — 2017
Full Stack Developer,
3 years
- Created CMS-backed site for concert tour. Strong focus on visual design requirements for the Pokémon IP.
Zelda Symphony (official)
JMPP
Remote, 2011 - 2013
Full Stack Developer,
2 years
- 25th Anniversary & Symphony of the Goddesses series: Built & supported websites & marketing for concert tour.
Stephen F. Austin State University, 2001 — 2006
Computer Science
- Bachelor's Degree
- Math minor
- Additional graduate coursework in Parallel & distributed systems, AI
Languages
- Go
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- JavaScript
- Previous:
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- Ruby
- Objective-C
- Lua
- ActionScript
- ColdFusion / Lucee
- C / C++
Stacks, Frameworks, & Tools
- Hadoop | Spark, Hive, YARN, etc.
- SQL | Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server
- NoSQL | HBase, Cassandra, etc.
- Dgraph
- Docker
- Linux
- Cloud | AWS EC2, AWS EKS, GCP, etc.
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins, Ansible / Chef / Helm build tools, CI/CD, & other automation
- Testing, test automation, & CI/CD
- Architecture & design
- Microservice architecture, event-driven, pub-sub
- REST APIs
- Node.js, React, CSS
- Django / Rails-like
- Redis, GraphQL
- ORM frameworks
- Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
- Airflow
- Git
- Strong debugging
- Documentation tools & strong technical writing
- Agile, scrum
Fun 😀
- Coffee & coffee roasting
- Game Programming
- Hiking
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Physics, Space, & Cosmology
- Reading
- Running
- Sci-Fi
- Software Development & Engineering
- Video Games
- Weightlifting