Software engineer with years of experience designing and building enterprise scale analytical processing systems. Strong understanding of distributed databases and storage, distributed compute, and overall system architecture. Love building developer frameworks to improve developer productivity and reduce duplicated effort. Passionate about customer success; have worked very closely with some of Microsoft's most highly valued customers to ensure smooth integration between our products and their complex processes.Lover of the outdoors, from hiking, to snowboarding, to scuba diving, to rock climbing. Scholar of philosophy, with a particular interest in Modern Philosophy (Hume, Hobbes, Kant). Jazz enthusiast and jazz piano player. Love traveling and have been to every continent except Antarctica!