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Nashville, TN, US

San Francisco, US

South San Francisco, California, US

• Leader for company-wide engineering initiatives related to scaling and reliability.
• Creator and facilitator of educational onboarding material for new hires.
• Technical Reviewer for multiple issues of Increment, Stripe Press' technical magazine.

San Francisco, California, US

• Advocacy at events, customer visits and conferences.
• Pre-sales and post-sales discussions about observability strategy and deployment.
• Development of API libraries, and tooling such as Terraform providers.
• Internal customer advocacy, contributing to everything from status page improvement to client libraries.
• Research and development projects.
• Extensive writing for blog posts, white papers, and internal designs.

South San Francisco, California, US

• Leader, creator and bootstrapper of multiple teams, contributed to changes in existing teams, contributor to many organizational leadership initiatives.
• Consulted with teams across Stripe for instrumentation and monitoring as well as ownership of internal tooling and services. Drove marked improvements in reliability and confidence in engineering.
• Acquired, deployed and managed metric, logging, tracing, exception collection and monitoring infrastructure for all of Stripe engineering. Some vendor and some in-house developed.
• Created and maintained OSS projects and technical work to further Stripe’s engineering brand and improve the industry. Spoke at many conferences both industry and Stripe specific.
• Drove and bootstrapped an internal Prosperity team that saves tens of millions of dollars in yearly AWS spending through social and procedural improvements.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Early hire with broad responsibilities for startup analytics company processing billions of events per day using cloud providers and distributed systems.
• Design and implementation of system-wide observability system including patches and improvements to many OSS projects for increased visibility.
• Leadership in process, procedure, mentoring and technical work.
• Research and adoption of system automation (Ansible) and cluster management (Apache Mesos) and design and development of orchestration software.
• Design and implementation of query scheduling and caching services.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Engineering Manager
• Managed the team responsible for monitoring, alerting and visualizing performance data for all of Twitter's distributed systems. Included distributed query systems, dashboards and client tools for querying, creating.
• Implemented Kano Analysis and analytics to shift to a customer focused team that improved qualitative metrics quarter over quarter.
• Daily work in Scala, Javascript, Python and Ruby.SRE
• One of the first hires in new embedded SRE program for a truly unique company and technology situation.
• Maintenance, upkeep and improvement of thousands of servers running critical observability, messaging and database sharding infrastructure.

• Assumed ownership of fragmented cloud assets and unified to a single provider.
• Evaluated and implemented end-to-end SDLC strategy including: revision control, bug tracking, change management, testing, documentation, continuous integration, release management and deployment using best-of-breed.
• Constant improvement of development process and procedure for all projects large and small.
• Day-to-day interfacing with large and small clients to gather requirements, establish procedure and communicate progress.
• Daily development in HTML, CSS, Perl, Java, Scala and JavaScript.

• Assumed ownership of legacy infrastructure and converted to higher quality, modern Linux distributions and virtual machines.
• Gained familiarity with legacy Java and PHP codebase and assumed responsibility for bug fixes and new features.
• Created development plan and oversaw work in creation of public prediction market products.

Franklin, TN, US

• Entered as Senior Developer, promoted to Development Manager and finally AVP.
• Creation and maintenance of a fun, energetic development staff rooted in OSS and personal enrichment.
• Claimed ownership of previously outsourced code and integrated it into new hardware environment.
• Design and implementation of $30 million e-commerce site with millions of visits and terabytes of traffic.Hiring and day-to-day management of developers, system administrators and QA.
• Worked closely with executives to improve processes and procedures to increase knowledge of Technology projects and increase overall revenue.
• Evaluation and implementation of third-party software (CDN, Analytics, A-B/Multivariate Testing, Campaign Management) and hardware (storage, load-balancing, servers and ancillary equipment).

Franklin, TN, US

Joined as junior, became System Administrator and later, Senior Developer