Walked 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, then got a puppy upon returning home.

Software engineer in the developer platform division of Twitter. Most recently led the Search API team. Lead product owner and architect for the Batch Compliance API.Past projects have included Twitter's Historical PowerTrack product, offering batch access to the entire Twitter corpus. Also was instrumental in shipping InsightsTrack, offering realtime streaming aggregated engagement and impression statistics using Apache Flink. Previously led the billing & payments team for the developer API.Developed courses on Scala and taught over 200 engineers across Twitter.

Software engineer and first hire at exciting TechStars graduate Conspire (goconspire.com). Primarily developing in Scala using Play and Akka and integrations with Neo4j and ElasticSearch. Other technologies include Amazon Web Services and RabbitMQ. Also built a deployment system based on CoreOS and Docker.Acquired by FullContact.

Responsible for full-stack web development on ASP.NET with SQL Server. Developed both internal, client-facing and public-facing web applications. Given wide latitude to make technical decisions and influence the direction of projects.

Developed web and mobile sites for the finance, healthcare and public sectors. Specific projects include an online membership management system for a Super PAC and a public-facing web presence for a large medical supply firm.

Performed IT support for students and staff including virus removal, software installation and network troubleshooting.

Responsible for the development of financial calculators and interactive features for a new business- to-consumer interface on mobile platforms. At times also assigned to work on the relaunch of the corporate website. Primary developer on a financial “wizard” to sell accessory products to automobile loans (vehicle warranties, credit protection, etc.), launched September 2011.

Worked on modeling the LEAP+ security protocol to find flaws in its authentication system.