Merit is a Series B startup that built a digital platform for credentialing people, working with government and business to handle cases like emergency management, public safety, and education choice.Hired after Merit’s Series B round to a new team focused on the Merit Member app, a web and mobile-native app that enables users to view and manage their digital credentials. - Contributed to greenfield development of Merit Member app built on React Native, Go, and TypeScript. The platform has 12k+ MAUs and has been used to issue 5.5M digital credentials, to provide access to education funds for 150k students across the midwest, and to track millions of responder-hours during Florida’s hurricane seasons.- Contributed to development of an Admin Portal. Defined architecture and led team in delivering the portal’s Merit Studio module used to design and export credentials in PDF format. - Leveraged GitHub Actions to create workflows and reusable actions for building web and native mobile application bundles, running checks on pull requests, building versioned http clients based on Swagger specs, and publishing npm packages for utility repos. - Integrated the Member app with platform APIs and third-party APIs.

Razar is a consulting firm.Assigned to contracts with Hy-Vee (midwest grocery chain) and Adecco (recruiting company)Client Project Highlights: Hy-VeeDependency Removal - Contributed to migration to remove dependency on T-SQL stored procedures. (Kotlin, C#, Google PubSub, Terraform)Financial Applications - Wrote T-SQL functions and stored procedures to calculate bonuses.Payments - Completed a 10-month project focused on building user-facing features for web and mobile apps focused on gift card management, and contributed to migration of a payments API. (Next.js, React Native, GraphQL, Kotlin)AdeccoTalent Source - Implemented ratings and comments, user action tracking, feature flags, and proxy file download for the Talent Source recruiting platform. Simplified and refactored data fetching and complex state management. Worked on authentication through OpenID Connect. (TypeScript, React, NestJS, Node.js, Python)Skill Predict - Implemented MS Excel export of search results and a custom graph component with VictoryChart for Adecoo’s AI-based skills matching tool. Implemented network error and slow response handling with ServiceWorker and snackbars. (TypeScript, React, NestJS, Node.js)Post It Play It - Created multi-page "new competition" form. (TypeScript, React)

Cutso was an early stage startup in the clothing e-commerce space. Hired to a small full-stack team responsible for building a greenfield application for rating and purchasing clothing.- Independently designed and implemented the Python-based GraphQL backend of the Cutso MVP using AWS serverless technologies including API Gateway, Lambda, Aurora, S3, and SQS. - Contributed several pages and components to the React and Bootstrap frontend including the voting and leaderboard pages.

Lucidworks is a search platform and Elasticsearch competitor built on the Solr open source product. Joined an infrastructure engineering team responsible for building and managing a cloud-based managed Solr platform.- Worked to design and implement Lucidworks' next-gen managed service using Terraform, Python, Saltstack- Wrote a Terraform Enterprise REST client library in Python to support Terraform module integration testing- Wrote an asynchronous Solr client library (using Python asyncio) along with a CLI in Python to support Solr backup and restore- Operated Lucidworks' managed service using Cloudformation, Python, Saltstack- Developed process for OS image building and testing using Jenkins, Packer, SaltStack, and Pytest

Certain built an ‘Eventbrite for Enterprise’ solution with features for event marketing, badging, session management, metrics, etc.Hired to a team responsible for building and maintaining production infrastructure supporting Certain's web applications.- Played key role in migration from an MSP to AWS. - Led migration from CFEngine to SaltStack for configuration management, remote execution, and application deployment.- Integrated application deployments with AWS and Datadog using their REST APIs.- Drove an infrastructure as code initiative that included tool evaluation, selection, and implementation of Terraform, Packer, and Vagrant. - Implemented development environments using Vagrant and later Docker.- Created and maintained custom AMI builds with Packer and Salt.- Wrote and maintained operations scripts in BASH and Python including a distributed, zero-downtime, infrastructure aware application restart script.- Made key contributions to logging (ELK) and monitoring systems (Datadog).- Wrote a chatops solution for application deployment.

Consult on 4th Gen. Light Source control systems conceptsManage 20 servers running core services like DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos, and othersSet up mail server, serial over lan, data backups, and secondary Kerberos and LDAP servers Teach a daily English conversation class for employees

Designed a motor control system in EPICS. Built an interface and supporting scripts in Python and BASHResponsible for designing and maintaining several GUIs critical for experimental operationsDesigned Python interface to store and recall motor parametersSupported LCLS instrument scientists and engineersHelped with set up and tear down of LCLS experiments

Designed a motor control system in EPICS. Built an interface and supporting scripts in Python and BASHResponsible for designing and maintaining several GUIs critical for experimental operationsDesigned Python interface to store and recall motor parametersSupported LCLS instrument scientists and engineersHelped with set up and tear down of LCLS experiments

Responsible for place and route, including timing analysis, of three blocks of several hundred thousand gates each.

Modified C programs which implemented direction of arrival algorithms for an antenna array on a Xilinx MicroBlaze soft-core processor.