Led a zero to one team at Harness to build a product, meeting and exceeding delivery goals under tight deadlines by aggressive prioritization; converting $270k in ARR from Armory to Harness and retaining over $6M in existing ARRRetained over 80% of Armory > $8m an annual revenue post-acquisition by leading high-performing, global software and cloud engineering teams by prioritizing feature delivery and international support while rebuilding trust, converting 30% of that revenue to the Harness platform.Infrastructure as code using Terraform, running services at scale for large enterprise customers in AWS and GCP.Technical leadership in building command line tool in Golang using Java APIs to migrate customers from Spinnaker to Harness.

Built the process and team to save a failing product, improving developer productivity by prioritizing platform automation, improving processes in Jira, and improving incident response processes by adding incident commanders and PagerDuty automation; growing the product to account for 1/3 of Armory's Revenue, growing one customer from $125k ARR to $1.7M.Leveraged Jupyter notebooks, Google form surveys, and performance metrics in Jira and GitHub to identify problem areas in developer experience to improve on-call experience and developer productivity; decreasing missed deadlines close to zero and increasing the pace of feature delivery by 3x.Over 3 years, built and led a federated, cloud-based developer tooling product, collaborating with product development, worldwide site reliability, operations, staffing, vendor, and overall P&L management as the head of Armory’s Managed Spinnaker product offering, which led to a highly successful product accounting for 1/3 of Armory’s revenueRecruited and hired top global talent, with retention rates >90%. Built a global talent pipeline in AMER, EMEA, and APAC.In one year, using developer productivity metrics, drove adoption of effective code reviews and code coverage metrics using Sonarqube to improve peer reviews to shift our continuous integration and continuous delivery processes, improving efficiency by 20% and reducing missed timelines by 90%.Technical leadership, building the program, meeting with customers, setting priorities, timeline, and goals; building command line tool in Golang using Java APIs to migrate customers from Spinnaker to Harness, building support to migrate the top 95% of the use cases in 6 months and migrating 2 customers with 3 more in progress.Developed strategy to use monitoring tools (NewRelic) to measure improvements to scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency

Converted Armory’s managed/SaaS offering from a professional services engagement to a product offering; hiring and retaining a global team of 9 engineers across North America, Europe, and Asia, retaining over $1 million in ARR, including a 1,100% expand.Excel at building high functioning colocated, hybrid, remote, and/or global teams by leading with empathy, coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership; while mapping the company’s vision, mission, and strategy onto roadmap, direction, and commits.

Mentor and guide teammates. Strong belief that “a rising tide lifts all boats”. I care deeply about my team and their health and happiness. This is a healthy way of increasing the performance of the team, and it feels good. I love to see my teammates and coworkers improve, as it drives satisfaction in their work.Align with the product owners, business, and customers to propose product features to solve needs and desires. Adept at architecting and designing a solution by leading brainstorming and design sessions, communicating the design to all stakeholders and getting feedback and buy-in, story boarding the design and creating user stories and technical tasks in a way that allows the stakeholders and product owners frequent feedback to ensure the team is driving towards the right solution, and then executing to deliver quality software. Good strategic decisions rely on good information on the costs involved. One of my core beliefs is that my role is to help guide people to the best solution. A lot of conflict arises from misunderstandings, so I strive to be as clear as possible.Constantly looking for ways to incrementally improve our processes so that we can deliver high quality software that more closely addresses our customer’s needs. This includes using Agile methodologies as a framework to more effectively estimate the level of effort needed for new features.

Lead engineer focused mostly on backend services; leveraging experience and training to develop highly scalable and highly available microservices in the cloud (AWS). Enable our engineering team to build quality services for our PaaS offerings. Advocate for good design and architecture, as well as a focus on automated testing and monitoring.Work closely with the SecOps team to quickly address infrastructure and security issues. Collaborate with the Ops team on implementing DataDog tracing, metrics, and log aggregation; which allows identification of bottlenecks and proves the effectiveness of performance improvements with metrics and data rather than guesswork.Provide advice and direction towards improving our processes by leveraging expertise in Agile methodologies, as well as moving the team towards CI/CD.

Architect, design, and build RESTful content services platforms using Node.js and Spring Integration in Java with CouchDB and Solr back ends. These platforms are built to be highly scalable and rock solid in support of several of Turner's digital presences such as CNN, CNN Money, and NBA's websites; instrumented and with full automated testing (both integration and unit tests).In support of building these services lead the creation and maintenance of the build plans for these services in a continuous integration build system (specifically Atlassian's Bamboo), as well as evaluating and determining the developer workflows and project management process with a focus on practicing Scrum/Agile methodologies.Design and create an instrumentation and monitoring strategy for our Node.js and Java Spring services using StatsD to connect to our existing Circonus instances in order to provide insight into the KPI's to ensure high availability and scalability under load.Architect and develop logstash plugins for moving our data from Couchdb to Amazon Elasticsearch, which involves writing custom plugins for filtering and transforming the changes api data, as well as leveraging ELK to visualize any import errors. Also using ELK along with RabbitMQ (AMQP) to consolidate and visualize logs across a variety of micro-services, both NodeJS and Java Spring based.Creating a GraphQL service in NodeJS on top of an existing RESTful API.

As a Lead Developer at NBA Digital, continuously work with other departments in Turner to implement better processes and technologies. Extremely successful in putting together compelling cases through prototyping, architecting the solutions, planning the delivery, and managing expectations.Throughout my tenure as a Lead Developer at NBA Digital I have proven time and time again my ability to quickly learn new technologies by leveraging broad but deep experience along with academic training to continuously improve our platforms and services; and by improving the tools and techniques used by our group to increase productivity and throughput while also focusing on sustainable pace of development, constantly finding ways to improve efficiencies while also improving the quality of solutions delivered to a high profile client

Worked closely will all levels throughout a project to migrate all 30 NBA teams to Drupal, including the SVP of AMPT, the VP of NBA Business Operations, Senior Director of NBA Digital, the Program Manager of Turner's PMO, the Quality Engineering team, and Internet Operations. The project was a multi-year effort, in which I was responsible for determining feasibility by creating a prototype, architecting the solution, turning requirements into deliverables, scoping, building the development team, implementing agile methodologies (specifically scrum), mentoring team members, building the application, and successfully migrating all 30 teams to a new platform.

Quickly learned the Turner landscape, becoming an expert in web technologies as well as Turner's tools and platforms. Became the leading expert in developing solutions and solving technically challenging problems requiring the ability to quickly learn new technologies and delivering solid and maintainable solutions exceeding expectations

Worked directly for the CEO/President and the CFO to build drug life cycle management software in the very challenging and heavily regulated industry of pharmaceuticals, requiring learning expertise in FDA regulations and best practices for security, documentation, and development. Architected and developed every aspect of an enterprise level application using UML, ERD, and OOP, starting with design, mockups, JAD (Joint Application Development), to design and develop an end to end solution in ASP.NET using MS SQL for the persistence layer. With a focus on software engineering fundamentals such as DRY, low coupling, high cohesion, built as an n-tier architecture with a database, data model, business layer, and view layer. Conceived and implemented using IEEE software engineering specifications to capture and document all business requirements, functional requirements, and software design for the delivery of the products.Lead the charge to design, architect, and develop every aspect of the next version of ICM's core product offering using component based architectures, further reducing coupling in the design by focusing on creating API's around functional units within the product and introducing a communications layer between components, and by exposing public facing functionality through Web Services.Also built and maintained all platform and infrastructure for the company, including migrating source from Source Safe to Subversion, learning and developing ICM's source control strategy using tags and branches for revision control. Helped guide an implement ICM's move towards a fixed date release schedule, using agile methodologies and tools to better predict features available for each release.

Showed an ability to quickly become an expert in any technology, working with an extremely varied and challenging set of environments. Successes include quickly learning an extremely varied set of data sources such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MSSQL, Excel Spreadsheets, and many others. Designed, architected, and built a spatial monitoring dashboard for the NOC and for executives using DHTML, ASP, and SQL, which was later converted to PHP.Continued to show an aptitude for quickly learning technologies by learning to write COM objects in Delphi, and then later building a desktop application in C#/.NET, which was used to build web based dashboards for the NOC and for executives, as well as a multi-threaded installer for the application. Other achievements include becoming an Open View certified in two weeks by reading the manual and performing extremely well on the test.