Serving as tech lead manager with a super sharp and passionate team of engineers building renewable energy procurement and valuation software powered with generative AI and ML at the core of our product and developer experience. We use TypeScript, React, Next.js for our frontend; and Go, Python, Postgres, Snowflake, and Google Cloud for our backend.

Joined a seed stage startup as a founding technical lead, building software tools for renewable energy procurement and portfolio management

Did some pretty cool things at scale with Spark, Scala, Ruby, and Python to build financial reporting tools aggregating billions of transactions each year that empowered tens of millions of small business merchants and creatives all over the world with insights into their payment activity.

Worked in Core Automation Services (the team formerly known as Factory Software Infrastructure Engineering) helping with Model S/X self tests and safety critical recording for Model 3/Y on the oompa loompa assembly line, the deepest concentric circle of the elon ego factory (see Canto XXXIV of Dante's Inferno).

Built, designed, architected, and maintained service-oriented applications for distributed energy storage technologies and cross-functional data analytics platforms to support Autobidder (algorithmic AI/ML trading software) for the largest energy storage asset in the world and other virtual power plant concepts.

Lot's of organizational refactoring during this time that came with a small promotion.

Served as tech lead manager. Created recruitment, hiring, and retention program for Distributed Controls Team of nearly a half dozen individually contributing software engineers. Focused on distributed energy management systems with Grid Services / GridX group in partnership with California utilities PG&E, SDG&E, and SCE.

Building test beds and model-predictive control software for battery+solar systems in residential and commercial settings as tech lead for the Grid Systems Integration team

Developed intelligent software for monitoring and controlling distributed solar and storage resources. Acquired by Tesla in November 2016.

Worked at a small startup developing analytics tools, test frameworks, and distributed control systems for an integrated energy management solution with Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and other electric utility business partners through the OpenADR Alliance.

Research and development in Smart Energy with the Cloud-based Solutions Innovation Group (CSIG) at Fujitsu Laboratories of America in Silicon Valley.

I worked with an interdisciplinary research team investigating automated demand response (AutoDR) applications in commercial buildings.