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Monstera provides software consulting services that grow with your business.

• Women’s Directory is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides access to critical resources for women in need
• Built the core Rails application and designed the site’s infrastructure and core user experience
• Implemented features for community submissions, internal moderation, and data management
• Designed and shipped our custom analytics backend to maximize the privacy of vulnerable users
• App code is fully open-source and available on GitHub under the MIT License

• Built massively-scalable, enterprise-grade email security software in full-stack TypeScript
• Designed systems to protect, inspect, and quarantine millions of Google/Outlook messages per day
• Led design, development, and maintenance of core infrastructure in Kubernetes and Google Cloud
• Integrated with core Google Workspace and Outlook 365 systems to build scalable security apps
• Served as IMOC during critical production outages and led mitigation and resolution processes
• Expanded our IaC platform to increase deployment velocity and catch defects before production

Longmont, Colorado, United States

• Led development of a unified deployment platform for internal feature development teams
• Built automated, fully-managed CI/CD workflows with Terraform, CircleCI, and Kubernetes
• Conducted user interview sessions with product teams to discover their operational needs
• Supported teams directly in refactoring and containerizing their apps for cloud deployment
• Rewrote and refactored business-critical internal data pipelines to fit modern 12-factor practices
• Architected drop-in replacements for legacy apps that did not work well inside AWS

Greater Denver Area

• Worked on the TVision streaming video product
• Migrated Node.js microservices from legacy EC2 AMIs into Kubernetes
• Managed zero-downtime migrations from AWS Route 53 routing to K8s internal service discovery
• Designed CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated image updates and reliable deployments
• Refactored Kubernetes YAML objects into a universally-deployed Helm chart
• Created automated validations and smoke tests to ensure deployed K8s resources were always valid

Denver, CO

• Led projects to empower ops teams by building workflow management tools
• Reduced automated build flakes by 70% through collaboration with infra team
• Diagnosed root cause of data integrity issues and implemented systemic fixes
• Ran postmortems to capture impact of system outages and deliver actionable resolutions

Denver, CO

• Built and automated a BDD test framework for our legacy web app
• Facilitated manual regression testing and quality assurance on our production mobile apps
• Designed product experiences using wireframes, hi-fi mocks, clickable prototypes, and user flow diagrams
• Performed user research, prototype testing, and feature validation with real-world customers
• Managed JIRA to support internal teams that used Agile/modified Scrum practices

Minneapolis, MN

• Designed, managed, developed and launched native mobile apps for the LightBlue Bean
• Bean Loader for iOS – 400,000 downloads, 200 daily sessions, 5 stars in the App Store
• Bean Loader for Android – 3,500 users, 4 stars in the Play StoreDeployed and managed Bean community forums – 1,500 user signups, 50 posts per weekWrote, deployed and maintained Bean Cloud Compiler, a scalable cloud.

Minneapolis, MN

Managed content, reviewed copy, and deployed assets to our public-facing CMSDesigned content for email campaigns and managed industry mailing listsAutomated marketing and internal documentation with Python scripts

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering

Active member in the following student groups on campus: • Tesla Works: a maker group focused on large-scale projects • IEEE UMN Student.

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