Leading the integration of SimpleCircle's ERP with Arryved's POS.

Acquired by Arryved. Branded as Arryved Brewery Management.Founded and led SimpleCircle, a radically simple ERP for craft breweries that unifies inventory, production, sales, and order fulfillment.

Managed the reliability and optimization of a 1.4 petabyte database cluster consisting of 100 sharded Postgres databases unified by Citus, a distributed query engine. Optimized all parts of the data pipeline and serving stack including Kafka data ingestion, Linux kernel tuning, Postgres configuration, and SQL code generation.Designed and implemented a control plane in Go with a REST API to automate database recovery, backups, and upgrades. Reduced manual work from 4 hours to 10 minutes and database recovery time from 2 days to 8 hours.Led 3 month technical evaluation of commercial database vendors to investigate feasibility of a database migration to a distributed column store. Implemented, benchmarked, and evaluated Heap’s workload on SingleStore, Postgres, Snowflake, dbX, and Rockset.

Led a team of 3 software engineers building the backend for an internal Platform-as-a-Service similar to Heroku. The platform supported $2B in revenue and served 100k users. Designed and implemented a distributed, permission-aware index for all objects on the platform using Spanner, Bigtable, and Zanzibar.

Led 25 combat missions over 3,000 miles in Afghanistan through ambushes and IEDs. Coached and mentored 45 lieutenants on Infantry tactics culminating with platoon live-fire exercises.