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San Francisco, California, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Wrote extensive integrations as part of the Tanium/Microsoft partnership. Including work in Microsoft's Azure-Sentinel github.com repo. This work made heavy use of Tanium's GraphQL API including query construction, GraphQL variables, and relay-spec pagination.Technologies: Azure Logic Apps, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Bicep, Svelte, GraphQL, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Azure Logic AppsRewrote the backend for a data caching application to be thousands of times more performant by avoiding blocking IO and introducing a memory caching layer for pending writes.Technologies: NodeJS, SQLiteExtensively worked on production level *nix shell scripts which were required to work on arbitrary machines across Linux distributions and Unix flavors.Technologies: sh, Bash, sed, awk, VBScript, PythonWrote a human friendly wrapper around a complex manual development stack which achieved my personal goal of intuitive commands that would reliably result in development environments with specified state.Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, JavaScript, jq, ripgrep, curlRegularly provide tutorials to fellow developers and Tanium customers on how to effectively call GraphQL and especially how to handle more complex interactions such as relay-spec pagination and GraphQL variables. Also regularly help out with the finer points of shell scripting.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Durham, Nc, Us

Integrated a durable log (Kafka) into the critical payments data pipeline that was handling actual flowing monetary transactions with zero downtime.Technologies: Kafka, Riak, Elixir, ErlangRedesigned the encryption key rotation process utilizing the new durable log. My approach not only improved rotation performance but was able to discover and resolve previously lingering key rotation errors.Technologies: Kafka, Elixir, Ruby, commRedesigned a circuit breaker component which kept transactions from flooding temporarily unavailable payment gateways with requests. My redesign was more performant, reliable, and readable.Technologies: Rails, Ruby, Redis

Durham, Nc, Us

Rails development and operations for a highly available credit card vaulting and payment processing application.

Leesburg, Virginia, Us

Designed an engineering hiring process that worked well to identify strong hires from a diverse range of candidates.Technologies: Rails, GitGrew the software engineering team from 5 to 40 while remaining fully remoteTechnologies: Excel pivot tables, email, Zoom, Git, Rails, Confluence, JiraBootstrapped another engineering team to service a new product offering.Grew the engineering team while maintaining a strong remote-first culture.

Leesburg, Virginia, Us

Developed the "double barrel" phishing simulation technique using a message queue backend I introduced into the tech stack.Technologies: Ruby, Rails, jQuery, beanstalkdCompleted a massive and convoluted upgrade from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.2 even as engineering work continued uninterrupted on the Rails 2.3 branch. This required extensive Git and Rails expertise.Technologies: Git, RailsRedesigned the backend email delivery system to handle delivery scaling requirements far beyond original expectations.Technologies: Rails, Ruby, Postfix

Leesburg, Virginia, Us

Rails, JavaScript, and other software development.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Rails web developer doing backend and frontend programming as well as some server administration and deployment.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Database and web programming* PHP* Python (mod_python and django)* jQuery* mySQL* sqliteProjects:ContentDM* RSS Feeds (time based)* Media RSS Feeds (search based -- for use with cooliris)* print view* djatoka image window expansionEZProxy* a completely new frontend authentication framework that handles multiple sources of authentication including shibbolethIPDatabase : PHP web application tracking our IP addresses and metadata (MAC, DNS, AD)* forward/reverse DNS verification* automatically provides the next IP from a given range* autocompletes the next hostname in a given sequence (e.g. autocompletes hostname03 if hostname01 and 02 already exist)* a disk fragmentation style view of the ranges differentiated by arbitrary data

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Head of UNC Library mac support. Technical support for Undergraduate Library and Wilson Library. ~80 staff computers and ~200 public computers.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Access database programming. Macro scripting for transition from DRA to Millennium catalog system. Perl scripts to munge data between e-reserves software and Millennium catalog.

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University Transfer, Drama, History, Chemistry, Communications, English