Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building cloud platforms, full-stack applications, and automation frameworks. I specialize in driving scalable solutions from idea to production, taking ownership of complex problems, and enabling teams to deliver their best work.
Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
• Lead developer of AWS FedRAMP moderate & high compliance and security platform, the company’s flagship
product.
• Designed and built the Azure FedRAMP Moderate platform end-to-end, enabling secure cloud adoption for
regulated customers.
• Replaced a costly STIG scanning tool with an open-source solution, saving ~$10k per customer and 20–30
hours/month; delivered from concept to production in under 2 months as a solo project.
• Served as primary contributor and designer for the PaaS GCP platform, establishing secure and compliant
multi-cloud offerings.
• Standardized CI/CD pipelines and delivery practices across multiple teams for infrastructure and application
code, driving consistency and reducing deployment risks.
• Designed and implemented a unified API ecosystem for AI tools through cross-team collaboration, improving
customer experience.
• Worked closely with business stakeholders, product managers, and department heads to align technical initiatives
with company strategy.
• Mentored engineers, conducted interviews, and raised company-wide code quality standards.
• Automated compliance workflows for FedRAMP and vulnerability management, reducing SecOps workload
significantly.
• Developed extensible automation frameworks (Python 3 + Click CLI) and dynamic Azure DevOps pipelines for IaC
deployments.
• Drove contributions to kube-bench open source, addressing critical gaps and accelerating compliance with
evolving business requirements.
• Built and optimized networking solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including Istio service mesh for
microservices, secure VPC configurations, and cross-cloud connectivity.
2018 — 2021
Seattle, Washington
• Designed and implemented API/UI for cloud infrastructure provisioning platform supporting containerized
workloads.
• Helped accelerate adoption of cloud platforms across global engineering hubs, reducing environment
provisioning times from weeks to hours.
• Led multiple projects end-to-end, including architecture documentation, presentations, JIRA management, and
task delegation.
• Collaborated with global teams across the US and Germany; ran workshops on Pulumi and Consul.
• Automated operational tasks to improve team efficiency and reduce on-call overhead.
• Acted as engineering liaison, presenting products to stakeholders and driving adoption across departments.
• Contributed to micro-frontend projects that accelerated UI development across teams.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Kirkland, Washington
Implement scalable frameworks for testing large projects across multiple platforms and assist DevOps with CI/CD pipeline integration.
Projects:
Daimler -
• Planned and built test framework for testing in-car applications' REST calls.
• Created over 200 tests and implemented the framework to validate automated build environment including testing cloud VM's, VNets, subnets, network peerings and Kubernetes configurations.
• Built Jenkins scripts to automate test runs with results-over-time reporting built in.
• Containerized tests to simplify deployment.
• Expanded on Java + Gatling framework to implement active monitoring of Kubernetes internals and cloud infrastructure components.
• Created Kubernetes clusters via containerized automation with Terraform.
Steelcase -
• Built containerized load testing framework using Java and JMeter that implemented data mocking strategies to fit real world scenarios and draw useful statistical analysis on a PowerBI front end. Jobs scheduled with TeamCity.
• Built a single set of front end tests with Selenium that worked across Safari, Chrome, IE, Edge and Firefox in C# on a custom test framework. Involved extensive modification of the framework and implementation of Page Object Model as C# classes.
• Implemented Cucumber/Protractor integrations with beta version of application.
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
Seattle, WA
Built PHP templates to work with Wordpress and the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Created interactive pieces for users in both dynamic CSS through SCSS as well as jQuery and javascript. Used design documents and communicated with designers to create the best possible sites for clients.
2014 — 2014
Kirkland, Washington
Designed and built a 3D body scanner using Microsoft Kinects with a small team. I used the ReconstructMe SDK to develop a Microsoft Surface-friendly application that works in tandem with a power computer and an Arduino to scan a person creating the “Ultimate Selfie”. I used the QT IDE with Visual Studio to create the GUI.
Education
Western Washington University
Bachelor’s Degree
2011 — 2015