Experience
2026 — Now
2021 — 2026
2021 — 2026
• Reorganized unmanaged legacy AWS infrastructure into Terraform managed infrastructure following best practices like network and environment separation.
• Implemented ``one-click'' GitOps deployment pipeline for entire application stack in GitHub actions with ArgoCD.
• Reorganized legacy monolithic codebase to make service oriented architecture obvious, and dead code elimination possible.
• Instituted enforcement of formatting, linting and static type analysis in CI.
• Spearheaded integration of new technologies into existing ecosystem, such as GraphQL, asyncio, and Celery.
• Integrated OpenTelemetry distributed tracing for inter-service monitoring.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
Greater New York City Area
• Assisted with migration of core account and transaction processing off of legacy mainframes and into modern cloud-native implementations.
• Maintained over a dozen Cassandra clusters, addressed security vulnerabilities and other enterprise compliance issues, developed in-house tooling for managing Cassandra schema migrations.
• Implemented Docker-Compose- and Kubernetes-based flavors of performance- and integration-testing environments for hybrid containerized/serverless systems, including push-button pipelines for provisioning K8S-based environments.
• On-call for service outages, incidents, and late-night systems maintenance.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Greater New York City Area
• Implemented local integration testing for hybrid containerized/serverless systems using Docker-Compose, LocalStack, Serverless and Terraform.
• Modernized build pipelines for speed and legibility, wrote shared pipeline libraries, and integrated Jenkins with Slack for better build status visibility.
• Developed workflows for packaging and deploying Serverless applications within CapitalOne's ecosystem.
• Triaged security compliance issues.
• Maintained legacy hotel arbitrage monolith service, added extensive testing, and prepared for switchover to next-generation replacement.
• Architected next-gen event-sourced/CQRS system for hotel arbitrage.
• Implemented entity-resolution microservice for matching hotel names and addresses against Priceline's dataset.
• On-call for service outages and incidents.
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
Beaverton, OR
• Refactored and extended test coverage on a large legacy Python codebase.
• Developed new features to support the customer buying experience.
• Created and deployed containerized applications to Discogs' Kubernetes cluster.
• Integrated a central authentication service across Discogs' public ecosystem
• On-call for Discogs' central authentication service.
• Instrumented new and existing systems and API integrations.
Education
Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2008 — 2015
Harvard University
Master’s Degree
2008 — 2015
Oberlin College
Bachelor’s Degree
2002 — 2006