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I'm experienced in designing and implementing cloud native micro-service solutions. I currently serve as scrum master for a team that iterates on feedback from our business and data science teams.
Links to more of my projects can be found on my homepage.
I lead a scrum team that has been responsible for designing and implementing the organization's first cloud native system. The stack included services running in Kubernetes, deployed with Helm, and networking managed by Istio. Monitoring and alerting was handled via Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK stack. As part of this effort, we migrated our continuous delivery pipeline from self hosted Windows to Linux nodes running in AWS.
I was responsible for porting our legacy Windows services to run on Linux as a proof of concept for future migration to the cloud. The bulk of the work was porting C# code from .Net Framework to .Net Core and later testing and replacing incompatible dependencies. During this time, I continued to help add features and support for our legacy services running on self hosted Windows servers.
I helped decompose the original Predictive Behavioral Routing monolith into micro services. This included a drastic overhaul of our build and test pipeline running in Jenkins with which I was involved. I also designed and implemented several data aggregation services that ran against SQL Server and were used by Customer Success teams for reporting.
Designed, constructed, and characterized a novel Mach 5 shock tunnel. I also lead a team of undergraduate researchers working with shape memory alloys as part of a program funded by NASA.
Designed hardware modifications for a FLIR camera to run in a vacuum and implemented MATLAB code used for infrared image post processing.
When I'm not coding, I spend much of my time enjoying typical leisure activities of geekdom: reading, video games, movies, etc. I love novelty and trying new things. You name it, I've either done it or would love to try it! (Aside from sky diving; I'm deathly afraid of heights.) I'm particularly fond of board games and hard science fiction.
Outside the standard fare, I play a little guitar and piano. I've recently picked up tennis but am pretty terrible at it. I love "Do It Yourself" (DIY) culture. I'd rather learn to do something myself if it's within my power, like cooking or working on my car. I have a 3D printer that I've used to print board game pieces, car parts, household items, etc. This fondness for DIY or "hacker" culture is a key factor for why I love the open source ethos.