Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever.The Vehicle, Fleet and Factory Apps teams ensure our products are always ready for an adventure by developing intelligent software systems that enable the continuous development, manufacturability and sustainability of our products throughout their lifecycle.

Led the software development team focused on the Hardware Test Infrastructure for the autonomous driving sensor system at Waymo (Google's self-driving car project).

Led Application Development across BYTON's digital products, with specific focus on cloud services, smart diagnostics, and factory integration teams.

Led mission critical development of advanced diagnostics ecosystem empowering manufacturing, service and root cause analysis teams to rapidly identify, diagnose and repair symptoms discovered in Tesla products at all phases of the product life cycle.• Launched and managed full-stack, data, embedded and validation teams totaling a peak of 22 members• Maintained 96% approval rating from team through Tesla 360 feedback system• Spearheaded transition from desktop to distributed cloud application and connected vehicle diagnostics• Ensured team was prepared and able to scale and support business critical tasks such as Model X and Model 3 launches

Led software development and architecture for mission critical development of advanced diagnostics applications and services shared between manufacturing and service to quickly identity, diagnose and repair symptoms observed during the life cycle of Tesla products.* Architected and developed Python + Qt desktop application utilized for realtime communication with Tesla products* Architected and developed full-stack web application for diagnostic content management* Mentored team members on code quality, design principles and TDD practices

Developed Python + Qt desktop application for digital asset management and data visualizationfor core studio pipeline used in movies such as Ironman 3, Maleficent, and Jack the GiantSlayer.• Created asset dependency tracker and visualizer to help artists resolve complicatedreference modeling in 3d software• Developed custom UI visualization widgets• Wrote training and best-practice guideline documents and focused on mentoring peers on Qt development

Developed custom web and desktop software for the Core Research and Development groupworking on the Happy Feet 2 film in Australia.• Improved performance of shot-finaling by 75% by multi-threading application andintroducing on-demand data collection• Developed open-source Python database object-relation mapping system

Led development of core pipeline software tools for Academy Award Nominated Blur Studio,focusing on artist efficiency software, digital asset management and production trackingsystems.• Hired, mentored and led team of 5 software engineers developing code in C/C++, Pythonand MAXScript• Improved overall efficiency of studio by breaking down inefficient approaches to businessproblems (bidding, scheduling, accounting) into data-driven visualizations and guides• Worked closely with CEO and CTO to rapidly prototype solutions and gain feedback fordevelopment team on direction of software solutions• Developed custom solution for embedding Python into 3dsMax which eventually was open-sourced and adopted by Autodesk directly into the product suite

Developed custom tools for art department and collaborated with game engine team toconvert 3d assets to game-ready models.• Innovated solutions to map 3d space in 3dsMax to exportable splines within custom in-house game engine• Built 3d file format exporter to transfer assets from art scenes to engine• Worked on poly-reducer to generate occlusion scenes for realtime rendering to work withpre-rendered background sets

Developed custom tools for animation department working on the PS2 | X-Files: Resist or Serve video game.• Wrote pose library to capture, share and restore poses for characters• Wrote quality assurance tools to accept and utilize 3rd party animation scenes• Developed custom collision detection system for liquid animations for use in realtimeengine