§1 — CASE FILES
WORK HISTORY *
- Lead Demo Engineering, a software development team creating content that showcases what the Datadog platform can do.
- Lead the Community Open Source Engineering team, engaging the open source community around Vector (vectordotdev/vector) and Quickwit (quickwit-oss/quickwit).
- Streamlined software engineering interview process resulting in consistent hiring criteria and high quality of hires.
- Provided non-technical stakeholders with a predictable and easy to understand feature delivery and launch plan.
- Forecasted Engineering budget and controlled infrastructure costs (AWS), saving 10% on a $2.0m budget.
- Evaluated and selected core technologies, balancing build vs. buy. In buy scenarios, tools saved several headcounts in operational overhead.
- Partnered with the InfoSec organization to craft secure SDLC practices integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Led and supported development and operations of Kubernetes-based microservices and data pipelines.
- Designed and optimized centralized logging and metrics using Datadog for cloud services, reducing SaaS costs and time-to-debug.
- Implemented secure Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates for IoT systems (Raspberry Pi SoCs) for the Eatsa Spotlight Pickup System, removing operational friction for customer staff.
- Led the Core Platform team of 4 engineers supporting 70+ developers in build tooling, deployment processes, and automated cloud operations.
- Architected and implemented the authentication/authorization service and API gateway for Opower's microservice ecosystem.
- Developed core framework libraries adopted company-wide to standardize and accelerate microservice deployment and observability.
- Designed and developed backend services and batch jobs processing statistical data for used car valuations using Java, C#, and Ruby on Rails.
- Designed, implemented, and operated the Data Warehouse using Microsoft SSIS and SSAS, optimizing report query times for real-time dealership lookups.
§2 — EVIDENCE WALL
SKILLS
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§3 — ORIGIN STORY
B.S. in Computer Science — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Aug 1999 – May 2003 · Software Engineering Certification Program
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