Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• Build and maintain SpiceDB, an open-source authorization database inspired by Google Zanzibar which features an expressive schema language for defining application permissions, latency-sensitive response times using distributed caching, and rich developer tooling
• Develop and operate AuthZed Cloud, a hosted global authorization platform for enterprises with strict latency SLAs, zero-downtime upgrades, and an admin dashboard
• Collaborate with a global team to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
London, England, United Kingdom
• Designed and built Lightning Studio, a cloud development environment platform which enables users to develop machine learning models and applications in the cloud with zero infrastructure knowledge required
• Engaged with a vibrant open source community consisting of AI researchers and industry engineers
• Implemented full stack features, from the Postgres database layer to the TypeScript React frontend, with some gRPC APIs in between powered by Go
• Nurtured a healthy software testing culture by following test-driven development for both backend and frontend using unit tests and Cypress end-to-end tests
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
New York, New York, United States
• Designed and developed new features for industry-leading, open-source container registry, Quay.io
• Lead integration efforts between Kubernetes/OpenShift and open-source container security solution Clair
• Performed site reliability engineering tasks for Quay.io global service including deployment of upgrades, monitoring, debugging, and optimizing
• Collaborated with open-source members to develop solutions and integrations which benefit the needs of the community
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
New York, New York, United States
• Designed and built open-source Operator Framework for Kubernetes native applications with dependency resolution, automatic upgrades, and intuitive UX
• Built open-source React/TypeScript dashboard for visualizing Kubernetes applications with API discovery, pagination, and dynamically-driven components
• Drove and supported adoption of Kubernetes-native application framework both within enterprise organization and in greater upstream community
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
New York, New York, United States
• Designed and built Operator Framework for Kubernetes with dependency resolution, automatic upgrades, and intuitive UX
• Optimized React webapp performance, including reducing production bundle size by >40% using lazy-loading and code-splitting
• Introduced technologies like TypeScript, Webpack, and Protractor while creating and maintaining tools for developer success
• Designed and implemented new UI features for enterprise cloud software based on Kubernetes
• Developed new features and acted as SRE for enterprise Docker registry SaaS, Quay.io
Education
Oregon State University
B.S. Computer Science
2013 — 2018