Developed, oversaw, and drove the technical vision for Platform Engineering and Infrastructure at Datavant.Executed on broad impact projects with high visibility, leveled up the technical excellence of the organization, accelerated timelines exponentially, and derisked key initiatives.- Architected the "Golden Path" of the company, building alignment around a strategy for reducing technical fatigue and accelerating development efforts.- Worked with my Director to define technical vision, write strategy, and develop processes for operational maturity.- Executed on exploratory work in order to align teams in the Platform Org on synergetic initiatives.- Built a FedRAMP Moderate compliant Continuous Delivery platform, trained the team on usage and operation, accelerating the migration timeline by a quarter in order to deliver on time- Architected a live migration of all existing services with zero downtime or developer workflow disruption.- Derisked ambitious timelines regarding infrastructure modernization, platform acceleration, and developing capabilities for product teams.- Built a multi-stage container testing framework, enabling platform teams to iterate fearlessly on improvements for product teams without regressions.

Hired a long-term Head of Platform, grew team stability and fostered a healthy culture throughout rapid org evolution, while improving team-level efficiency.- Reduced interrupt driven work by over 70%, bringing WIP load to sustainable levels, accelerating project timelines by several months.- Designed clear and quantifiable org-wide goals with high ROI to justify and allocate headcount.- Worked with the Head of Platform to grow the team into a full Organization, balancing hiring with feature development.- Facilitated and designd interview loops to rapidly hire the most diverse teams in the CTO org within a single quarter, achieving over eight high quality hires more than twice as fast as the org average.- Prepared for a FedRAMP audit cycle, SOC2 Type II audit cycle, unblocking several high profile issues in preparation for our audit cycles.- Designed key data-driven Developer Experience initiatives, turning them into a smooth on-ramp for the new Developer Experience team, giving them a successful integration into the CTO Org.- Cultivated the culture of the Platform Org to where it ranked as a significant outlier in happiness, NPS, leadership trust, and other core engagement metrics.

Led the Platform Org in an explicitly interim capacity, focusing on preparing the Org to go through an operational maturity transformation and be taken over by a long-term leader successfully.- Built awareness around resource allocation needs for the Platform Org, leading to substantially re-allocating resources in order to right-size our infrastructure investment.- Procured and rolled out a developer experience platform to monitor and identify key wins. This resulted in multiple teams being able to independently improve their velocity and happiness in quantifiable ways.- Built a data-driven and strategic process around identifying and allocating developer experience interventions, leading to substantial improvements to developer satisfaction and velocity.- Worked with Product Engineering, Security, and the CTO Leadership Team to build a narrative of cross-functional collaboration and trust, bringing about a significant improvement in the organization's alignment and messaging around Security and Platform.

Took on technical leadership of the infrastructure team, guiding the infrastructure of Seaplane, and enabling other teams to execute on building out critical competencies for the platform.- Broke down communication silos within teams, mentoring reports in personal growth, sociotechnical growth, and professional goals- Rescoped infrastructure team to focus on core competencies and more effectively leverage existing industry practices- Implemented plan for paying down existing tech debt and focusing on resilience engineering- Built out and scaffolded multi environment GitOps terraform structure according to best practices

Took a leading role in prioritizing security related initiatives.Strong focus on improving the developer experience, design systems, and architecture.- Developed an environment specification DSL in Nix in order to allow for rapid iteration and increased efficiency.- Created a cross-platform codebase for a design system that worked across React and React Native, allowing for seamless collaboration between design, product, and engineering teams.- Built out the infrastructure required to adopt a mesh VPN solution as part of implementing Zero Trust Networking.- Implemented and deployed self-hosted package registries, enabling SBOM auditing, reducing CI failures, and doubling CI install speeds.- Revamped developer on-boarding documentation and integrated a discoverable bootstrapping mechanism into projects, reduced on-boarding time by over 80% created future automation opportunities.- Designed the approach to developer environments, and implemented change management across the engineering and product teams.- Initiated and supervised vendor procurements to enable higher security, cost savings, and developer efficiency.- Lead adaption of `open-telemetry` in the front-end by demonstrating benefits, improving knowledge sharing, and delivering an internal talk on the results.

Took a leading role in the build out of the DevOps team as its first member.Participated in contracts for the Department of Defense for transitionable R&D initiatives.- Architected and implemented an internal platform on top of Kubernetes, using GitOps and NixOS for a fully auditable, reproducible, and maintainable system.- Reduced CI/CD pipeline times from days to minutes, and reduced complexity by consolidating from 4+ CI systems to 1 CI system.- Shortened FPGA development loop by days, and enabled automated testing of FPGA machines by designing and deploying a CI system, testsuite, and cross-project CI coordination.- Created development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and optimized releases for projects across a wide range of environments, from secure enclaves, to FPGAs, to cloud deployments.- Enabled the shipping of modern development tooling into a highly isolated system by creating a fully self-bootstrapping environment suitable for non-privileged HPC-like systems.

Working in a startup environment, I lead initiatives related to improving every aspect of client and internal focused efforts and communication.- Built and maintained a comprehensive design system, saving weeks of developer time.- Fully restructured the codebase into a true monorepo, reducing build times by over 50%, and eliminating phantom code transpilation errors.- Built a backend capable of self-healing ingestion of data from a slow internal API, increasing site responsiveness by over 90%.- Implemented CI and reproducible developer environments, including for mobile development.- Optimized server caching and improved peak traffic load capabilities by over 20x.- Reduced average page load over 50%.

As a web developer, I maintained and developed websites and the infrastructure to support them.- Transitioned all of the company websites from a fragile server setup to a containerized setup, significantly reducing deployment risk.- Modernized websites and internal tools as needed, improving speed, security, and maintainability.- Reduced developer setup time from weeks to hours and made local environments fully consistent with staging and production.