Technical and organizational problem solver, cloud and database knower
Mentored team of four junior engineers, including coaching on incident response and retrospective best practices
Took over project to integrate code review tooling with Slack
Led implementation and aided design of core next-gen control plane infrastructure and services (device configuration, RPC mechanism, message bus integration, access point management)
Helped automate legacy provisioning to dramatically improve deployment capabilities (>2x more reliable, >10x faster)
Entirely rebuilt continuous integration system (>2x faster, same cost, more self-serve)
Socialized best practice team, process, and project-organizing techniques by leading a book club and discussion group
In-house PostgreSQL expert and de facto Terraform/AWS owner
Spearheaded adoption of Golang and worked on modernizing legacy codebase via service and API-first approach
Owned a petabyte-scale PostgreSQL cluster — improved reliability by >10x, query performance by >2x, saved millions $/year, and led backend development of new analysis features, including Path Analysis
Established systems and processes for understanding and controlling AWS spend
Wore many other hats including blog post author, open source contributor, and DEI advocate. I also onboarded my entire team, and interviewed ~90% of new grads in 2019 and most engineering management
Updated tools and utilities for host maintenance, application monitoring, and deployment configuration management
Created a health monitoring service used in critical infrastructure, reducing network load
Led a team of students who raised over $250,000 in sponsorship funding and organized events for over 1,000 students
Started a “learnathon” to address disparities in local K12 CS education — 300+ high school students attended
Shifted outreach focus to under-represented minorities in STEM and created beginner-friendly environments
Doubled the size of the organization and increased the scope to better serve undergraduates at Georgia Tech
Migrated core SQL Server schema to increase extensibility while maintaining backwards compatibility
Created a new homepage for the core product to enable more complex analysis and increase feature adoption
Designed and developed a full stack web application for bug and feature tracking using Angular.js and Caché ObjectScript
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with Highest Honors and a minor in Sociology
Research: Developed novel data visualizations at the Information Interfaces Lab under the direction of Dr. John Stasko
Languages: Golang, JavaScript (Typescript and, unfortunately, Coffeescript), SQL, Python, Rust, Scala, Elixir
Tools: PostgreSQL (CitusDB), Linux, Terraform, AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS...), Buildroot, Ansible, Docker, Redis