As Vellum's first non-founding team member and engineer, my role is exciting, varied, and encompasses anything I can help advance.Key responsibilities most specific to my role include:• Building the first iteration of the Vellum system (zero to one)• Establishment of foundational technology and processes (e.g, always IaC, code review, frameworks, etc)• Facilitation of product development from ideation through development• Continuously balancing urgency with importance, quality, and speed of delivery• Evaluating and making build vs. buy decisions• Recruiting top-tier engineering talent to grow the team as necessary• Providing mentorship and training for the engineering team and related processes

• Source, define, negotiate, and fulfill software engineering, project management, and DevOps contracts• Provide expert consulting services for AWS, Python, and Insuretechs• Developer and consultant for The Closed Round, GGOB, Aumatio, Trademack, MORC, and more• Design and develop micro SaaS applications (TBA)

• Catalyzed and led a long-term, company-wide initiative to reimagine the limits of BriteCore by developing, proposing, and proving a concept which led to raising $80M and opened previously unattainable business• Scaled and led a globally distributed agile engineering team from 30 to 120 members over 2 years• Closely engaged with InfoSec to achieve compliance initiatives such as SOC 2 Type 1 certification• Achieved AWS Advanced Technology Partner (Financial Services) status with help from other leaders• Created and promoted a successful incentive program for AWS certifications—more than 50 obtained• Directly reported to CEO as an executive with quarterly board-level reporting responsibilities• Directed $2M+ on/offshore data architecture, analytics, BI, and system observability contract• Architected and contributed to replacement of a fragile, custom batch report generation architecture—used AWS Batch, StepFunctions, CloudFormation, SQS, and more; reduced cost by 90% and increased reliability/observability• Designed and oversaw replacement of nightly batch processing orchestration responsible for critical processing on millions of policies annually—used StepFunctions, SQS CloudFormation, Batch, etc.• Partnered with Sales & Marketing to evaluate and win 20+ new customers and millions of ARR• Presented engineering updates to up to 300 non-technical users at annual conference—5x during tenure

• Collaborated with Engineering and Product leaders to reimagine and plan BriteCore’s future• Established and implemented engineering best practices—e.g., requiring infrastructure as code (IaC) • Led BriteCore’s initial API-only client to a successful launch via hands-on guidance• Primary technical contact for key relationships—e.g., high-profile/prospective clients and partners• Directed and contributed to launch of new AuthN module—handed off to promoted team member• Mentored, managed, promoted, and evaluated engineering leaders and managers• Collaborated with HR to administrate Okta, Github, Google Workspace, and more

• Launched BriteCore to production with first customers in early 2011—80 more throughout tenure• Built an automatically tested commission payment system which processes $10M+/month• Solely developed and managed comprehensive automated data conversion from 20+ legacy systems • Rearchitected and refactored accounting module—processes $1B+ annually, in use 11+ years later• Added 1000+ automated tests to improve software stability• Rebuilt the core payment processor framework and integrations—in use 11+ years, processes $500M+ annually• Architected, built, and deployed customer-configurable, fine-grained AuthZ module—10+ year lifespan• Co-developed and implemented code review, testing, and QA principals—in use for 10+ years• Built, managed, mentored, and evaluated teams of individual contributors

• Ran the follow spot at all times necessary during shows.• Helped set up show presets.• Helped maintain lighting equipment.

• Designed and built landscapes.• Kept computer systems functional and secure.• Wrote small applications to increase efficiency of paperwork.