Cloud Surfaces (CLI, Client Libraries, Mobile, Web)

Led engineering for internal developer experience at GitHub. Drove the multi-year project to re-platform GitHub Enterprise Cloud which enabled data residency. Oversaw the delivery of GitHub Enterprise Managed Users and re-architecture of the billing platform.

Led the teams responsible for identity, UX, distribution, analytics, mobile SDK, and customer support for all App Center. Drove operational excellence and ownership with the group, increasing availability above 99.9%. Led the team through a dramatic change and re-org into a new company (GitHub) with no regretted attrition.

Led the AWS load balancing team responsible for service traffic across multiple critical Amazon services, including the retail website, Amazon Instant Video, Alexa, and Kindle. Managed large engineering team that owned load balancing capacity and hardware lifecycle. Responsible for the capacity planning product roadmap. Coordinated the hardware and network scaling components of preparing for Amazon’s busiest (peak) days on Prime Day and Black Friday in 2017 and 2018: oversaw the most successful peak days in team history with no customer impact and no loss in revenue due to load balancing issues. Coordinated with multiple stakeholders across Amazon to raise the security and availability bar of services hosted on the load balancing platform.

Led a team of developers who owned Centurylink Cloud's core IaaS offering across the world. The team was directly responsible for a wide variety of features within the cloud product, spanning the entire development lifecycle from design to deployment into production. Encouraged culture of accountability and ownership, with developers owning code quality from inception into production via pairing, unit testing, and support. Expanded the cloud product into new geographical locations and worked with the team to automate as much of the process as possible.

Worked as an application developer on the end to end apps team in the Azure group. The team was responsible for creating applications that consumed the spectrum of services offered on the Azure platform, collaborating with customers who are being on-boarded, and working with product teams to improve the developer experience. Also worked as an SDE and SDET on ASP.NET AJAX, MVC/Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages, WebMatrix, and Visual Web Developer.