Professional Summary
Engineering leader and full-stack engineer with 27 years across platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, and team leadership. Has worked across startups, enterprise, and regulated government environments. Hands on by default and still writing code. Started in late 90s advertising and graphic design and never stopped learning.
Employment History
- Building Veeam's first cross-functional SRE team from zero to support $5M+ ARR government cloud business and a $2M+ ARR Canada Sovereign Cloud client engagement.
- Hired first Staff Engineer within 1.5 months. Building 2 teams of 7 using an embedded colocation model placing engineers directly within workload and platform teams to reduce bus factor in a high-compliance environment.
- Designated AI Advocate for the SRE org. Established agentic AI workspace-sharing patterns and contributed company-wide agentic skills for architecture and documentation design.
- Built fully agentic desktop developer dashboard application tracking token usage, code contribution metrics, and org AI performance benchmarking for data-driven visibility into AI adoption ROI.
- Designed and built the first unified platform health and readiness dashboard in the GOV division. Live checks within an environment of all components which are historically siloed. First tool of its kind in the company.
- Working through FedRAMP authorization for the GOV division. Hands-on with evidence collection, audit prep, and compliance documentation alongside the engineering team.
- Establishing SLIs, SLOs, and incident response processes, building observability stack (Elastic Cloud, Kibana, PagerDuty) within air-gapped government cloud infrastructure.
- Working with DNSSec and secure networking requirements across government and sovereign cloud environments.
Tech: Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, FedRAMP, DNSSec, Elastic Cloud, Kibana, Veeam Platform, Veeam Backup for Office365, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Agentic AI Systems, Python, TypeScript, Pulumi
- Built and led a blended engineering org (backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA) and shipped 4 products including 2 mobile apps within the first 12 months of fully staffing the team.
- Designed multi-tenant, event-driven microservice platform (Kotlin/Spring WebFlux/Kafka/Redis/MongoDB) achieving 99.99% uptime at scale.
- Directed delivery of payment, settlement, compliance, and auditable financial reporting APIs for NCAA NIL workflows. Disclosed thousands of NIL deals for Division I, II, III, and NAIA athletes via integrations with collectives, NIL marketplaces, and direct athlete submissions.
- Defined SLIs, SLOs, and incident response. Built observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, PagerDuty) maintaining 99.99% availability.
- Established career development, 1:1 coaching, and feedback programs that improved retention and cross-functional execution.
- Stepped back to fractional role due to funding constraints while pursuing other full-time employment. Continued architecture oversight, roadmap guidance, and operational support.
- Worked on pitch for Official NCAA® NIL compliance platform.
Tech: Kotlin, Spring WebFlux, Kafka, Redis / Redis Streams, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, GCP (GKE / Memory Store), AWS (RDS, ECS, Lambda), Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Slack Alerts, PagerDuty, Chargebee, Zendesk, OpenAPI, REST, GraphQL, Next.js, React, React Query, React Native, Vue.js, Ionic, Pinia, Node.js, TypeScript
- Worked on localization and internationalization of Kaseware's investigative management platform.
- Updated document processing to support international character sets and formats.
- Returned as Team Lead after a stint at NNN Capital.
- Contributed to modernization of an investigative management platform, migrating legacy ExtJS to VueJS micro-frontends.
- Designed and built new Java/Spring Boot microservices for scalability and API integration.
- Built local development environments that cut developer feedback loops from approximately 2 minutes to 5-10 seconds, improving cycle time by roughly 92-96% and significantly increasing developer velocity.
Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, ExtJS, Pinia, DevExtreme, ArangoDB, Hazelcast, Kafka, GraphQL, GitLab, Helm, Kubernetes, AWS, ArgoCD, k9s, Mockoon CLI, Node.js, Storybook
- Designed and implemented the company's CRM and mapping platform for commercial real-estate brokers, focused on transaction accuracy, pricing transparency, and reliable reporting.
- Built event-driven backend (Kotlin, Quarkus, Redis Streams, MongoDB) with a VueJS frontend. Automated infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes on GCP.
- Introduced Agile planning, development, processes, test automation, and observability from the ground up.
- Trained UI/UX employees to manage and operate the full stack before accepting an offer to return to Kaseware. Company had not delivered on foundational employment infrastructure promised at the time of hire.
Tech: Kotlin, Quarkus, Redis, Redis Streams, MongoDB, GCP, GKE, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, k9s, GitHub Actions, Slack Notifications, Google Log Alerts, Sentry, OpsGenie, OAuth2, Keycloak, Keycloak.js, OpenAPI, REST, Vue.js, Pinia, DevExtreme, TypeScript, Node.js, Google Maps, Google Places, GeoSpatial Indexing
- Led engineering across 3 CBS Sports products: CBS Sports Gaming (March Madness Bracket), SportsLine.com, and SportsLine Mobile apps. Tens of millions of users, 99.99% uptime.
- March Madness Bracket platform sustained 18K+ RPS at peak with zero incidents across multiple tournament cycles.
- Modernized legacy platforms into event-driven microservices (Kotlin, Spring WebFlux, Kafka) with React/Redux/TypeScript frontends. Automated infrastructure with Terraform and AWS CDK.
- Mentored team leads and senior engineers, building sustainable technical leadership depth across distributed Agile teams.
- Established observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry), incident response, and sprint-to-release discipline aligned to SLA and monetization goals.
- Collaborated with marketing and analytics to integrate SEO and structured data, contributing to top 5 search rankings across key sports properties.
Tech: Kotlin, Java, Spring WebFlux, Elixir, Phoenix, Python, Flask, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Redux, Terraform, AWS, EKS, AWS CDK, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Sentry, Fastly, Akamai, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Gradle, Bash, Make
- Served as a senior engineer and architecture consultant supporting multiple Agile teams through a large-scale e-commerce and POS modernization initiative.
- Promoted Agile best practices, continuous integration, and test-driven development to improve quality and velocity.
- Mentored developers in cloud architecture, containerization, and performance optimization techniques.
- Contributed to the design and implementation of a microservice-based architecture leveraging Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.
- Modernized deployment pipelines using Docker and Kubernetes to enable faster, more reliable releases.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build scalable services integrating e-commerce, payment, and customer systems.
Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Scala, Akka, Play, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticPath, Gatling, Eclipse MAT, VisualVM, Mission Control
- Transitioned from principal engineer to senior engineering manager, leading the design and delivery of Asurion's first 100% cloud-based platform, a distributed CRM that became the company's architectural template for all subsequent cloud projects.
- Promoted Agile culture through daily collaboration, sprint planning, estimation, and continuous delivery practices.
- Guided engineers in modern software design, DevOps automation, and test strategy adoption to improve reliability and speed.
- Architected and deployed a scalable, service-oriented system leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure, microservices, and CI/CD automation.
- Introduced Docker and infrastructure-as-code practices that became foundational across multiple Asurion teams.
- Delivered a functioning MVP in under three months, accelerating adoption of the new cloud-based architecture across business units.
Tech: AWS (ECS, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, Jenkins, Java, Spring Boot, AngularDart, Node.js, TypeScript, Gradle, Gulp, Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, Reactive Programming, Behavior-Driven Testing
- Frontend Tech Lead at UnitedHealth Group (2007-2010). Led team building a brand-configurable private health portal. Also served as Interactive Art Director at UHG/Carrot doing UX, frontend, and backend work.
- Lead engineer on WSJ.com and Dow Jones digital properties (2010-2011). Helped design OSGi/Spring DM modular microservice architecture for high-traffic financial publishing.
- JavaScript Consultant at Barnes & Noble (2011-2013). Designed unified analytics framework across BarnesAndNoble.com and Nook.com aggregating to multiple providers and internal Hadoop cluster.
- Performance Lead at Xerox (2012-2013). Redesigned batch processing framework, cutting 65,000-case runtime from 6+ hours to 1 hour. Resolved memory leaks and deadlocks in legacy systems.
Tech: Java, Spring, OSGi, Spring DM, JavaScript, YUI, jQuery, NodeJS, JDK Concurrency, ZK, ActionScript, CSS, HTML, Hudson, SonarQube, Artifactory, JMeter, Dojo