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Seattle, WA, US

Washington, DC, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Infrastructure technical lead on AWS migration of 15 year-old monolith core stack.
• Migrated all functionality of deprecated F5 BigIP into various AWS Services.
• Recreated on-prem monolith and network infrastructure on AWS in Terraform.
• Wrote Lambda@Edge dynamic request router in Python.
• Migrated observability dashboards and integrations from New Relic to Datadog.
• Diagnosed and mitigated security risks and vulnerabilities.

San Mateo, California, US

• Owner of the "routing and resolution" vertical pillar for SurveyMonkey and subsidiary companies, leading the implementations of DNS, CDN, Proxying, Routing, Service Discovery, and all associated infrastructure.
• Technical lead of CDN and DNS migrations from Akamai to AWS CloudFront and AWS Route53 for SurveyMonkey and Wufoo.
• Architected, implemented, and executed multiple major domain migrations from on-premises datacenters to AWS via dynamic datacenter routing and single point of ingress for all global traffic using AWS CloudFront.
• AWS and internal infrastructure administrator across the enterprise
• Wrote extensive technical specification documents for current and future global routing solutions
• Presented at the SurveyMonkey Connect Conference about dynamic request routing

San Mateo, California, US

• Project owner of central NGINX reverse proxy request router, which routes most web requests processed by SurveyMonkey
• Developed proof of concept for dynamic multi-datacenter routing using AWS CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
• Automated deployments of central systems via Slack bots
• Wrote custom New Relic integrations for internal systems
• Implemented alternate authentication methods for third party requests to establish proper client identification
• Developed 100% AWS-native, serverless version of SurveyMonkey for hackathon project

San Mateo, California, US

• Supported infrastructure development and user management
• Created New Relic dashboards for host age and security vulnerability counts
• Created New Relic dashboards for central NGINX reverse proxy request router
• Highest Bonusly earner in office multiple times

Arlington, VA, US

• Implemented a Docker Container-based object detection framework using TensorFlow.
• Developed Apache Spark image processing framework.
• Wrote RESTful frameworks for web and cluster-based complex image processing.
• Wrote algorithms for processing radar images, many of which are on GPUs.
• Conducted research and development on innovative techniques for image processing.
• Patent awarded for interactive SAR image processing framework using GPUs.

Seattle, WA, US

• Duties included collection and analysis of isotopic data, laboratory computer network administration, method development, equipment maintenance, sample preparation, and laboratory equipment ordering.
• Maintained and fixed mass spectrometers, a laser absorption isotope analyzer, and ion chromatography systems.
• Wrote and maintained data analysis programs.
• Fieldwork at Summit Camp, Greenland and the National Ice Core Laboratory at Denver, CO.
• Trained graduate students and other lab users.
• Worked as interim lab manager.

Vancouver, WA, US

• Maintained computer labs and faculty/staff systems throughout campus.
• Operated the campus helpdesk, troubleshooting problems over the phone.
• Trained faculty, staff, and students on computer usage.
• Redesigned a kiosk interface for student registration.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Earth And Space Science