• Cut meat and developed paté recipes

• Made and sold artisanal beef jerky

• Architected and programmed an audit evidence collection framework using Golang and internal platform tools reducing the engineering time required to manually collect evidence for SOC 2 and PCI-DSS audits• Wrote custom Python scripts for collecting security and compliance related data from internal services• Conducted evaluations of systems and services prior to introduction into environments for potential security, compliance, and privacy concerns• Attended audit meetings and delivered explanations of system architectures to compliance auditors• Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, SaltStack, Terraform, datacenter, SOC2, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, IRAP, ISO

• Automated the installation and configuration of open source antivirus and intrusion detection software on corporate devices and designed the liveness, logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure• Architected and implemented a corporate VPN on AWS using OpenVPN and automated certificate rotation• Designed, implemented and owned the production AWS IAM infrastructure• Wrote custom scripts for detecting and alerting on sensitive information contained on corporate devices and document stores• Performed host and network vulnerability scans across production services and patched critical and high vulnerabilities in Python and Node.js applications• Owned the DNS infrastructure and configured our DMARC policies in Cloudflare• Led the SOC 2 audit process, from revising the controls with the auditor to collecting evidence and redlining the draft report, resulting in a 57% reduction in exceptions from the previous year• HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, infrastructure, AWS, Postgres, Terraform, Python, penetration testing, automation, patching, Kali Linux

• Member of the core database infrastructure team working with RHEL 6 / 7, Oracle DBMS, and Postgres • Automated anomaly and intrusion detection, static analysis, and compliance and audit reporting• Configured our databases to communicate via TLS and automated the certificate rotation process• Designed dashboards and data pipelines for visibility into the OS and DBMS patching lifecycle• Ensured compliance with federal government system security standards including DISA STIGs, FedRAMP High, and ICD 503• Oracle, Python, security, automation, infrastructure, Postgres, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, FedRAMP High, Airgap, NIST, DISA, patching

• Established the database monitoring and evaluation practice by automating the collection of logs and statistics at regular intervals and sending them to Kibana and Grafana for convenient analysis• Identified four queries that comprised 86% of all processing time spent on our production databases and implemented a materialized view that reduced total processing time by 27%• Evaluated database index usage leading to the elimination of 122GB of unused or redundant indexes,representing 16% of total index space on our production databases• Member of the I/O team optimizing ETL batch and stream processing for our core products• Backend engineer working in Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, and Pyramid

• Designed an ETL pipeline for California's food stamp data for Sacramento State University on a LAMP stack• Developed data models of nonprofit service providers and geospatial information for the City of San Francisco to use in optimizing their capital planning and grants allocation using Python, PostgreSQL, and DigitalOcean• Led the database migration and schema refinement for Carolina Herrera New York as they replaced their Point-of-Sale and inventory management systems• Prototyped a Django-based website on AWS to crowd-fund citizen journalism for VICE Media in partnership with the Knight Foundation and the CUNY Graduate School for Journalism• Built a vanilla JavaScript landing page to accept donations for the e-NABLE Community Foundation• Built a customized WordPress site for Clarity Staffing including API integration with Bullhorn Staffing • Conceptualized, designed, and deployed the Android app, Cat Party, that lets users watch cat videos and donate money to conservation of endangered feline species• Created a hybrid mobile app using the Iconic 2 (AngularJS-based) framework and integrated Google Maps, messaging, user reviews, and payments on a MongoDB, Express, Node, and Nginx backend• Prototyped an inventory-taking Android app that leveraged natural language processing (NLP) libraries to allow users to work hands-off and streamline reporting and reordering• Built Python web-crawlers to scrape product data from Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman’s websites to be used for competitive analysis at Carolina Herrera New York• Automated reporting processes using Python at Carolina Herrera New York, reducing the amount of time to generate sales and inventory reports from 12 hours per week to 1 hour • Prototyped the mechanics and logic of a physical therapy device for 3DBrooklyn using an Arduino, LCD screen, distance sensor and motorized platform

• Created the social impact screening and measurement methodology used to inform the investment process for a social impact investing fund with a targeted close of $400M• Performed due diligence, financial modeling• Composed quarterly financial reports

• Designed a five-year strategy and business plan to operationalize the United Nation’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy by synthesizing desk research, landscape analyses, and expert interviews and allocating $40M across operating activities• Managed the team of consultants implementing a $900K Corporate Social Responsibility project in Uganda that has tested 1,505 farmers for HIV/AIDS and organized 101 village savings and loans associations