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Seattle, Wa, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Worked with 2 developers to build an MVP for an ERP system for small advance manufacturers.Combined Generative AI/RAG, email/document processing, project management features, and service integrations to automate away the purchasing/accounting role and other back-office tasks in small manufacturing companies, offering ~10x time-savings per administrative task.Ran an initial pilot of the application within 2 months from launch and evolved the thesis in reaction to the market, expanding into factory floor functionality.Failed-fast and fulfilled our fiduciary obligation to return investment early, forecasting diminishing returns from moving down market against the cost of addressing support/onboarding/sales.Currently in talks to sell the prototype.

Newport Beach, California, Us

Built, architected, and led the technical strategy and a follow-the-sun engineering team at Datum Source from the ground up.Our application powers our managed services procurement team and other advanced manufacturing procurement teams in aerospace and nuclear energy. With our platform, companies have halved their procurement headcount while driving their throughput beyond the theoretical max, adhering to stringent national security compliance requirements, and significantly reducing the attack surface of procurement teams.- Given a leadership and product team without software experience, I evangelized Agile concepts until our development process shifted from dysfunctional waterfall to centering on rapidly addressing customer feedback, which once in place, quickly evolved the system to achieve Product-Market Fit.- Created a DevExp on aggressive code gen and validation to derisk cheap outsourcing and enable rapid prototyping, earning us a reputation for rapid development when compared to our peer companies with 6-10x the dev count.- System architect and primary contributor to every component of our stack, implementing any functionality too advanced for my team members to implement, including AI and 3D integrations.- Built an ERP-like Data Platform, enabling admins to completely customize their data model. For end users, the Data Platform provides a customizable data grid view for easily flat filtering, viewing, and visualizing their data, or building advanced nested boolean queries for complete fine-tuned access to their data. For our customers and strategic partners, our Data Platform provides a Reactive Eventing Platform exposed via webhooks and a public REST API protected with PAT tokens, and custom integrations per-customer.- Designed product features to address problems identified by our product team.Despite leadership/management workload and daily pair programming sessions, I still directly wrote over 60% of our codebase by line count.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Engineer on the Edge browser Enterprise Security team. Implemented the first C# web service in the org, integrated with internal services and Azure resources, resolved security compliance issues, and defined process for future web services to follow.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Engineer on the microservices platform team that powers a growing number of Microsoft's enterprise customers. Worked primarily in the security group as the primary implementer and maintainer of our Identity Management system and contributor to the infrastructure security.Implemented the stack for integrating React-based UIs into our microservices platform. Implemented generic CI/CD to support future new UIs and a React component library for integrating with microservices at runtime.Contributed to the hardening and security of our Azure and Kubernetes infrastructure. Fixed security compliance bugs and iteratively improved the deployment and security of our secrets/certificates and infrastructure.Primary implementer and maintainer of our identity and access management systems. Implemented an OAuth/OpenID-compliant token service for delegating stateless access to untrusted code. Also implemented a framework for automatic networking and identity integration between ASP.NET Core clients and other microservices on our platform, as well as an extensible RBAC model for implementing Least Privileged Access.Contributed to our team's Agile methodology iteration, improving our static analysis coverage, adding process documentation and deterministic coding guidance to improve code quality and minimize the time to merge PRs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Owned the Business Intelligence and user telemetry system (analogous to Google Analytics) for microsoft.com, auditing the system to save an estimated >$1.2 million annually and facilitating the retirement of the system in favor of native Azure solutions, some of which I architected.Created a PowerShell-based stack for rapidly migrating large on-premises services to Azure, which was leveraged across the microsoft.com SRE team, including with time.windows.com.Creator of OneDeploy, the multi-tenant deployment system for deploying web sites built on Microsoft's internal web experience platform.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Full-stack developed several proof-of-concept projects for streamlining the client acquisition and system installation process for solar panel installation. Also cleaned up the backend and fixed bugs on divyaenergy.com.