Designed and developed critical portions of the new Ambient data plane mode in the Istio service mesh project (Rust, Go). Collaborated with other companies through code review, GitHub issues, virtual meetings and design document review. Maintainer status for Networking, User Experience and Product Security and Vulnerability working groups.Appeared as a guest speaker for several Hoot Livestreams on YouTube discussing debugging tools and techniques for Istio and Ambient resource optimizations.Authored blog articles on cutting cloud costs associated with service mesh overhead.Developed open source UI tool for parsing Envoy and Istio access logs (Go, HTML, CSS).

Core contributor to the Istio open source service mesh project. Contributed to egress controller development, Consul server registry support and routing rule definition and implementation. Collaborated with diverse team from Google, Redhat, and Lyft to produce requirements and deliver features. Principle contributor to the Amalgam8 open source microservice fabric project. Developed proxy and route controller components from the ground up in Go.Designing, developing and delivering core components of the Service Proxy cloud service for the IBM public cloud. Developer for Cloud Systems Software, working with OpenStack, Python, Java, Ruby, and Chef in an agile development environment. Developed scalability and performance test scripts to stress test OpenStack clouds and automated cloud deployment and testing using Jenkins.

Worked with Scrum team in transferring current CT software architecture from C to Java, gained experience with OSGI and Maven, worked with Eclipse and Mercurial in a Linux environment, developed a dose check service for communicating with the UI.

Performed verification and validation testing on the Engstrom ventilator, gained hands on experience with a ventilator, wrote and edited test procedures in DOORS, independently learned Visual Basic programming language, designed a tool in VB for collecting coordinates from an image for use in touch screen testing, and designed a Jeopardy game in VB to be used in training new employees.