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Denver, Co, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Led three engineering pods (7 engineers) to deliver impactful projects:- Increased operational efficiency through a centralized management dashboard similar to AWS console.- Automated HIPAA-compliant test environments, saving ~$2M/annually in headcount costs.- Developed nine new development tools to increase the productivity of 500+ engineers.Spearheaded a company-wide LLM-based git pre-push hook to pre-review developers’ PRs.Expanded team ownership to own critical Python/Typescript logging & security packages and company-wide OS shell profiles.Mentored engineers across the company, covering hiring, running effective meetings, software requirements, and Python development.Designed and implemented a Python macOS menu bar app, streamlining GCP reauthentications.Led technical activities, including rearchitecting tools, code reviews, and TypeScript, Python, Rust, and Go contributions.Managed projects by creating quarterly roadmaps, writing project plans, and driving execution through effective stakeholder communication.Conducted people manager-related duties, including 1:1s, onboarding, scrum meetings, annual reviews, coaching, etc.Managed IT assessments for 3rd party developer tools.

Olathe, Ks, Us

Led a team of 6 that supported the DevOps, DevSecOps, and test automation needs of the Garmin Pay platform.Successfully drove upgrading a mission-critical, vulnerable, “non-upgradable” AWS Postgres DB to a modern version. My technical leadership activities included code reviews, limited code contributions, design reviews, and fleshing-out epics.Owned creation and monitoring of a ~$1M AWS annual cloud budget and other project management functions.Created Python scripts, integrated with Jira, to track team performance metrics and project future team velocity. I’ve also made other engineering process improvements, such as introducing quarterly-based infrastructure releases.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Guided a geographically distributed team of top-notch Linux developers contributing to the upstream kernel and OSS user tools in support of NVMe SSDs.Successfully drove Intel’s efforts to "inbox" our Volume Management Device (storage) driver inside VMware's ESXi operating system.Security Champion and Product Security Expert for the software subdivision of the Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group business unit.Established an R&D lab for our group at Intel's Longmont, Colorado site.Wrote Python scripts to generate management-related metrics reports (e.g., using Jira's REST APIs in conjunction with matplotlib to generate automated weekly burndown charts).

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Project lead for the operations and maintenance efforts on a mission-critical Department of Energy project.Developed three ASP.NET MVC enterprise apps used by 10,000+ employees daily.Authored and presented a PowerShell course resulting in training savings of $100K.Ported a large Java app to ASP.NET MVC on schedule (2 years) using only half of the estimated budget.Created developer tools to automate the weekly reporting of QA metrics such as test code coverage.Managed 15 employees as my building’s evacuation team captain.

Redmond, Washington, Us

My “Python Tools for Visual Studio” contributions increased our install base by 51% in 2 months.Final authority on whether any IronPython release would ship to our 20,000+ customers.Contributed to both the design and testing of .NET’s “dynamic” type.Sole test ownership of Internet Explorer 9’s JavaScript regular expression engine.Representative to the Ecma standards body where I drove forward a JavaScript standards compliance testsuite, http://test262.ecmascript.org, from prototype to public release.Wrote WebPI’s Python installer and managed PyPI updates for the “azure” Python package.Owned testing of Internet Explorer 10’s “Strict Mode” JavaScript feature.Managed a lab of 40 PCs used in testing IronPython, IronRuby, and .NET’s Dynamic Language Runtime.Personally owned all IronPython testing (e.g., performance, accessibility, globalization, etc.) for a year.Source contributions to IronPython and acted as build engineer for most releases.Played an active role in the IronPython community: samples, website, and represented Microsoft publicly.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Wrote C++, Java, and Python APIs for developers working on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).Delivered three major releases of ALMA Common Software (ACS).Designed and implemented a generic CORBA object mocking framework.Principal owner/maintainer of the ACS Python application programming interfaces.Provided developers with support in a geographically distributed environment. This included authoring and teaching training courses at the European Southern Observatory in Munich.Essentially a continuation of the (last) position held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Charlottesville, Virginia, Us

Designed and implemented ACS’s CORBA-based, distributed event system.Wrote real-time drivers and simulators for components of prototype radio antennas.Wrote shell scripts to bring the whole of ALMA software online.Authored coding examples showing ALMA developers how to utilize ACS.Built, bundled, and distributed open-source, third-party software with ACS.US representative for ACS. Same responsibilities as the role held at the University of Calgary.

M.S., Systems Engineering

B.S., Computer Science