Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
2023 — 2025
2023 — 2025
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
• Develop features and manage infrastructure, builds, and deployments for React Native (iOS & Android) mobile app, React web app, and NodeJS backend API.
• Designed and built a process for adding asynchronous serverless workflows in AWS using CDK, SQS, Cloudwatch Events, Lambda, and S3
• Manage MongoDB cluster in Atlas including schema design, search indexes, and constructing aggregation pipelines for analytical queries
• Designed and implemented our Segment event tracking plan to help analyze user behavior in order to inform our future product roadmap
• Set up alerts and monitoring across the entire stack with Sentry and Cloudwatch to ensure we are aware of any user issues immediately
• Established engineering best practices across all projects with code review, consistent linting and formatting, testing, and security requirements
2021 — 2022
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
• Led a team tasked with the objective of lowering the company’s AWS spend. In 2 months time we were able outline a detailed plan to eliminate $1.2M in annual AWS costs.
• Worked with a specialized team to separate the shared AWS infrastructure for the company’s two major products JS Orange and Cobalt. We migrated the Rails API from EC2 to ECS Fargate and performed cross-region replications of RDS, Elasticache, Redis, and Memcached clusters with little downtime and no loss of data.
• Led frontend development of the Downstream product as it was introduced into Jungle Scout’s product suite by onboarding, coaching, and mentoring new additions to the team
2018 — 2021
• Designed and built a full stack Selling Partner API integration including the data retrieval and storage system in AWS (Cloudwatch Events, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS Postgres), backend Django models and API endpoints, and frontend OAuth flows and data visualization (Typescript, React, HighCharts)
• Designed and built a serverless notifications system (Email and SMS) in AWS (SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, Pinpoint)
• Built the infrastructure for our data analytics API in AWS (Cloudfront, API Gateway, Lambda)
• Contributed to our Amazon Advertising API data ingestion system (SQS, Lambda, Kinesis Firehose, S3, Redshift)
• Built an internal library that wrapped the AWS CDK Python library that was responsible for managing our AWS infrastructure, monitoring, and alerts
• Led frontend development of our customizable user-facing dashboards (Typescript, React, Redux, HighCharts)
Education
University of Kentucky
2004 — 2006
Loyola University New Orleans
2002 — 2004