As a principal software engineer in Microsoft's Commercial Software Engineering division I worked closely with developers from external customers to meet immediate customer needs quickly and,I served as both project technical lead and interim manager for a team of 6.

I work on the Desktop Platform team at Dropbox that owns the majority of components that underpin the Dropbox desktop application. As a senior engineer and Tech Lead on the team I am responsible for shepherding and improving the planning process (in conjunction with EM and PM), helping set technical direction and vision. I also am responsible for features across the application's C++ Frameworks that drive native UI and integrate with the OS, the application's legacy Python backend, and the primary web-technology based display framework.

The Azure Sphere services team is responsible for all cloud infrastructure, services feature development and testing, and live-site operations in support of Azure Sphere (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sphere/).• Designed, implemented, and owned the Device Authentication and Attestation services. Served as the services technical lead while building the first version of a patent pending cryptographic device attestation protocol and certificate-based identity provider. Successfully collaborated with other workstream leads and stakeholders to develop an integrated and incremental product roadmap to enable needed features and integration testing across services and the device. • Drove code, build, and process changes to improve developer productivity by shortening individual build and service deployment times. Reduced build/test/deploy time from an hour+ to under 15 minutes.• Championed the adoption of new services infrastructure and design patterns.• Built the first version of command line tooling used by customers. Successfully transitioned ownership of the tool to a team located in the United Kingdom.

Developing the platform, tools, and architecture used by the next generation of Dynamics Applications.• Provide guidance to other teams on building and deploying scalable microservices• Deploy and manage geo-distributed NoSql instances to increase application uptime.• Developing and maintaining a base set of services to be used by other internal application developers

As part of the newly formed PowerBI API team, I worked on building the next generation of public-facing APIs to enable a brand-new product surface area: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/power-bi-embedded/ (developer targeted BI tools)

I worked as a developer on a research team designing and implementing algorithms for online ad auctions, powering Bing’s multi-billion dollar ad marketplace. The team was responsible for overall marketplace health and long-term sustainability through the development of proprietary utility and optimization algorithms working closely with Microsoft Research.• Designed and implemented a platform for sustainable, agile auction experimentation.• Monitor and measure aggregate A/B testing data to verify viability of experiments.• Use data understanding and optimization tools to ensure marketplace health and long-term sustainability.• Work closely with relevance and click-prediction teams to incorporate additional signals into the overall ad auction.

Relevance and Revenue (Bing Ads): Enabling and implementing strategies to maximize ad relevance and revenue on mobile devices.• Performed marketplace tuning for mobile marketplace, providing substantial revenue gains.• Worked in a cross-core team to move PC improvements to the mobile marketplace.• Acted as a contributing developer to core Ranking, Allocation, and Pricing algorithms.• Updated ad delivery system to take ad resellers into account so an ad reseller can more effectively represent competitors in the online marketplace.

Relevance and Revenue (Bing Ads): Provided critical test infrastructure improvements for Bing Ads (formerly AdCenter).• Worked with teams across the Relevance and Revenue group to collect requirements for automated test-running.• Contributed to the design and served as a core developer for an automated test-running system.

I co-founded CodeAwhile as a creative outlet for my passion in creating maintainable solutions. Our goal has always been to deliver quality solutions through exceptional software design and implementation.• Design custom WordPress plugins to meet client needs.• Implement solutions for core clients.• Produce detailed specifications for contractors.• Do quality verification and code reviews for all released code.• Manage a remote team to efficiently deliver on contracts within time constraints.

Studied Computer Science with a heavy focus in Mathematics.Undergraduate Senior Thesis in Computer Vision.

Relevance and Revenue (Bing Ads): Built an offline, pre-release performance metric tool for evaluating new deployments prior to release.• Helped design an offline simulation system for verifying auction and other performance metrics.• Built an online web-portal for test-running, test-monitoring, and result reporting.• Helped design and create a multi-machine, cross-domain test running platform for querying Bing's secured backend.

Managed various teams of my fellow students while working on client projects. Since all of our work was for outside clients, I was also responsible for client communication, resource-allocation, and planning.