Buoyant is the company behind both the Linkerd and Conduit open-source service mesh products. Its mission is to create a world where people can trust the technology they rely on, by giving everyone the power to build and run innovative, reliable, and secure software.

Full Stack Software Engineer working primarily on the Conduit project; written in Rust, Golang, & React.

• Teach complex concepts for class of 20-30 students; topics include Python (Flask), JavaScript (AJAX, JSON, jQuery), HTML, CSS (Bootstrap), PostgreSQL, data structures, pair programming, git, APIs, Agile and additional technical topics

• Guide students in debugging to help them uncover their own solutions to programming issues

• Advise individual students throughout the course on academic material

• Lead daily scrums and support advisees with scoping and planning their independent projects

• Problem solve issues within unfamiliar student-written project code

• Orchestrated solution to operational issue with shipments from Taiwan, including negotiating terms for lease of warehouse space and working with assembly team

• Provided technical support in product demos and consequent pilots, including actively troubleshooting the product, which led to the successful completion of pilot programs on time

• Managed establishment of new headquarters in the U.S., including relationships with operations in Germany, setting up payroll and bank accounts, and working with legal on incorporation

• Coordination of media release forms and production and distribution of credentials for attendees including journalists, photographers, IMG team members, and event sponsors.