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San Francisco, California, US

Leading the platform organization

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led organizations of various sizes and shapes within GitHub Actions, including the entire engineering group.
• Drove adoption of Hosted Runners internally to build a better product and reduce DX toil managing VMs
• Partnered with product & sales, grew Hosted Runners ARR by 4x from 2021-2023 & directly engaged with major customers
• Shaped processes for COGS & optimization, capacity analysis and prediction, and regular operational metrics (e.g. SLO) reviews
• Served as "Availability Champion" for Actions, Codespaces, Pages, npm, and Packages products, helping direct investments to consistently achieve our >99.9% SLA
• Grew new engineering leaders into Staff, Principal, and EM roles

San Francisco, CA, US

Led a team of engineers working on GitHub Actions Compute. We launched Larger Runners, and with them a new platform that enables advanced features such as private networking, usage policy management, and custom VM images.

San Francisco, CA, US

After collaborating to launch Actions with CI/CD, we enabled it on GitHub Enterprise Server. I led major efforts to adapt/port/rewrite our framework from.NET 4.8 to.NET Core to enable Actions to run on Linux alongside the rest of the VM appliance.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led a team of engineers responsible for the platform components of Azure DevOps that enabled feature teams (Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Repos) to ship 40+ micro-services to Azure as a SaaS solution and on-premises customers as Azure DevOps Server. We built solutions to enable Azure DevOps to be highly available, even in the event of a datacenter.

Redmond, Washington, US

Primarily worked on Azure DevOps Repos, which hosted the largest Git repository on the planet at over 300 GB. Architected and led the implementation of the VFS for Git network protocol and cache server (proxy), critical components that enabled scale to support the Windows repository.Drove live site engineering and process improvements, led cross-team.

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

San Jose, CA, US

• Implemented analytics for datacenter management software tracking over 8000 devices
• Created list and multi-dimensional reports using SSRS & SSIS, BIDS, and VB.NET
• Designed & implemented data warehouse for reporting using T-SQL, ETL, and SQL Server Agent
• Winner of “Millennial Innovation Challenge” award for work simplification concept among 40+ ideas
• Presented projects and explained business value to team members and senior leadership

San Jose, CA, US

• Created, documented, and packaged various Python scripts for 3000+ user Exchange migration and Active Directory (LDAP) user auditing
• Created Oracle database dashboard for easy access to status and patch levels
• Led incident dashboard project with offshore team, led QA testing efforts
• Drafted procedure documents for VMware ESX server host installation and storage reclamation
• “Wikified” various content for improved collaboration and ease of use

Toledo, Ohio, US

• Deployed and maintained VMware ESXi server hosts with 10+ virtual machines
• Deployed and maintained Windows Server VMs with Exchange, SQL, and other specialized applications
• Migrated 4 computer labs and numerous faculty computers to Windows 7
• Deployed new mobile writing lab with 30 netbooks
• Co-directed network infrastructure redesign, interfaced with ISP and vendors for smooth transition
• Configured remote access solution using OpenVPN and Terminal Services

Toledo, Ohio, US

• Utilized SMS, SCCM, and Active Directory to manage client computers
• Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software problems for end-users
• Installed new hardware, such as desktops and laser printers