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Experience

Work

Places I've worked and problems I've solved.

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SWE, EC2

Amazon (AWS)

2024Present

Building the systems that safely ship software and firmware updates to AWS's rapidly growing hardware fleet across global regions. Keeping infrastructure secure, performant, and reliable at scale.

JavaPythonRubyAWS EC2S3DynamoDBSQS

SWE / Team Lead

Microsoft

20202024

Led a small team building a product that synced Student Information Systems with O365. Quietly kept data flowing for over 500K students and teachers every day.

C#PythonAzure App ServiceCosmos DBEvent HubsBicepPySpark

SWE

Microsoft

20172020

Core member of the first innovation lab in Microsoft's World Wide Learning org. Helped build Microsoft Career Coach, a microservices-first product on Azure that connected students with career growth, learning, and internship opportunities. Design thinking and cross-functional work with Teams were a big part of how we shipped it.

C#Azure FunctionsService BusKubernetesTerraform

Lead SWE

Wind Talker Innovations

20162017

Led engineering for an early-stage RF networking startup.

JavaDockerCI/CD

SWE

Newscycle Solutions

20142015

Built backend services for a content management system supporting major news organizations.

C#.NETSQL Server

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