I do freelance software development, technical consulting, and mentoring for startups and other growing development organizations.

FiscalNote provides AI-driven business intelligence on public policy, legislation, and regulation across the globe.As architect and product engineer, worked alongside in-house teams and the Apt 304 team on complex, high-stakes projects. - Key role in a complex rebuild of search features into a global search API running at scale- Led complex migration of a dynamic alerts system to the new search platform- Key role in defining the external REST API- Implemented support for data-driven integration of new data sources- Mentored team members and consulted with senior management

My old colleagues James and Nima run Apartment 304, a custom development shop. Among other things, they are awesome at Go and devops. I've worked with them on a few of their projects at FiscalNote and Lava.ai.

DigiBuild is a YC-backed startup that uses blockchain, beautiful UX, and cloud architecture to solve problems of trust and usability in complex construction projects. As CTO, led software development for the company from one-developer proto-startup to a cross-disciplinary development team of 10+ members with functioning product. - Built the core architecture, AWS environments, and CI/CD process.- Helped define the entire startup structure as it grew into a functioning SaaS company- Advised and mentored founders - Established and ran scrum process- Mentored and trained product management and development team members- Built up a cross-disciplinary development team of 10+ members- Established a collaborative, friendly, inclusive, and efficient development culture

Lava.ai builds real-time customer interaction data into engaging user experience for the sports and entertainment industries.Working with the in-house team and Apt 304, led the rebuild of a complex customer engagement platform.- Led rebuild of the back-end API platform in Go- Designed new Postgres schema for complex data set- Designed and implemented secure multi-tenant architecture- Implemented best-practice REST APIs using Go Swagger- Implemented robust unit test suite- Built robust data migration tools- Collaborated with support to ensure successful customer migrations

Veritone provides a cloud-native SaaS AI platform that operates at scale. As API and core platform architect, led the transformation from dozens of disparate application-specific APIs to a unified API surface area based on GraphQL and used for all internal development as well as to support an ecosystem of third-party AI engine and application developers. - Built bespoke code on top of open source GraphQL tooling to solve performance and security problems arising from Veritone's scale of operations- Transformed both code and engineering culture to focus on high reliability- Engineered public API to serve millions of requests per hour at 99.99%+ reliability - As member of core architecture team, mentored others and and helped define the company’s engineering strategy and future architecture.- Supported thousands of concurrent processing jobs operating in near-real time- Built AI engine pipeline for AWS Rekognition integration

In my 10+ years at IBM I served in many roles.On the Watson Data Platform team I served a brief tenure as architect for the Catalog and Asset Management Service.As sole architect/developer on a “skunkworks” project I prototyped a novel approach to document classification using machine learning and computer vision.As as architect on the Box Relay team, I spearheaded a massive migration to Git and adoption of squad-based structure across a large distributed team.As an architect on the IBM Navigator team, a pioneering cloud project for IBM, I led development of sharing and Box integration.During five years as lead architect for the services APIs that enabled IBM enterprise content management platforms to integrate with Lotus and IBM Connections products, I played a key role in enabling the integration. I led the entire suite of REST and web services APIs for IBM enterprise content management.As an IBM lab advocate I worked directly with large financial institutions and NGOs over a period of several years.As a voting member of the Content Management Interoperability Services technical committee I helped bring 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the specification to ratification and led the design of social collaboration extensions. During my entire tenure at IBM I presented frequently at technical conferences both internal and external and either participated in or led various technical vitality initiatives.

At FileNet I was a senior developer on the company's pioneering team collaboration offering. I also pioneered continuous integration and test automation across development teams.

At Akamai I led development and production support for a suite of web-based applications used by customers to monitor and report on their traffic in real time. I also built common code infrastructure, implemented continuous integration, and was an early "dogfood" adopter of Akamai's nascent edge compute/cloud offering.

As a graduate student at UC Davis I worked as a research assistant in the in the Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory. I built and modified specialized Java virtual machines to support mobile and dynamic programs and published several academic conference papers.

Taught discussion sections and office hours for an advanced upper-division survey of programming languages.

Developed telephone directory and accounting applications in Visual Basic.

Implemented automated purchasing system and workforce management in C++.