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New York, NY, US

San Mateo, California, US

• I led all aspects of engineering at Blameless. Key responsibilities included:Executive Leadership:
• Contributed to leadership discussions as a senior executive and the head of the largest department of the company.
• Prepared and presented content for executive briefings, quarterly board sessions, and various other venues.
• Represented and upheld our values as a steward of the company culture.Product Development:
• Collaborated closely with colleagues in the Product and GTM functions to develop and maintain a technical delivery roadmap to direct our team's efforts and communicate with customers.
• Delivered new features and bug fixes to our customers by shipping multiple product updates per week via a DevOps SDLC workflow.

San Francisco, California, US

In my role as director of engineering at Kong, I led the teams responsible for the development and operation of our SaaS platform, Konnect. At various times this included both the software engineering teams developing the product, as well as the SRE team that built the Kubernetes-based container platform on AWS to host it. My scope also included some.

Seattle, WA, US

Slalom is a full-service consulting firm oriented around a local market model. In my time in Slalom's Detroit market I launched our Technology Enablement practice, and built it from the ground up as a highly-profitable engineering consulting practice with focus areas in Software Engineering, Agile Product Delivery, Cloud & DevOps, and Enterprise.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

RightBrain is a boutique cloud technology, application development, and devops consulting firm. As CTO, I directed technical strategy and execution for our three engineering teams. This involved a combination of standard Agile engineering practices like standups and retros, developing our engineering directors, architecture review, and client-facing.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

Deepfield is a network analytics startup founded by technologists with a deep Internet pedigree going back to NSFNet days.During my time here, I helped the company grow and diversify its customer base, product offerings, and engineering team. After taking ownership of Systems Engineering, I aggressively recruited to build several high-functioning teams.

San Francisco, California, US

I had the privilege to build and lead an international team of highly professional and dedicated systems engineers at MuleSoft. The DevOps team designed, implemented and managed all of our critical infrastructure systems. This included the generation and maintenance of production and development environments (AWS), monitoring and alerting systems.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Working at Netflix was a great chance to learn how a leader in the distributed public cloud space manages their infrastructure, from the inside. I was one of the first hires into the Cloud Operations & Reliability Engineering (CORE) team, created to provide systems architecture and reliability expertise to the many development teams in the product.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

At Domino's Pizza, I lead a great team of engineers responsible for operations and support of Domino's online ordering solution. Together, we built out the private cloud application environments for DPZ's online ordering reimplementation, culminating in a successful (zero downtime) launch. Following the launch, we implemented a red-black deployment regimen.