Site Reliability EngineerIndeed (April 2022 – Present)
Owned reliability initiatives for finance applications responsible for processing hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Guided teams on reliable practices,
measured SLOs,
and designed reliable, fault-tolerant systems for applications running in Kubernetes on AWS.
Built Terraform provider in Go to retrieve data from our internal service registry.
Contributed to Kafka hotkey recovery tool;
wrote Go backend code, designed frontend, build CI.
Systems EngineerVirtu Financial (January 2019 – April 2022)
Managed on-premise production Linux servers used for global high frequency trading,
including maintaining compliance with records and time syncing federal regulations.
Regularly mitigated incidents with multimillion dollar impact.
Designed “diskset” system to protect business against data loss
and enforce legally mandated separation between customer and proprietary trading.
Wrote Ansible modules and web API endpoints in Python
to manage encryption keys for Linux servers and store them in Active Directory.
DevOps EngineerCertica Solutions (January 2017 – January 2019)
Headed technical client relationships with state and local education organizations around the country.
Built highly available, scalable, and secure solutions for Ed-Fi student data systems.
Built Powershell and C# systems for deploying and managing enterprise applications.
Deployed idempotent infrastructure and code to AWS, Azure, and on-premise networks.
Systems Management EngineerDouble Line Partners (August 2013 – December 2016)
Built Powershell modules for deploying and managing Ed-Fi K-12 student data systems
for clients around the country.
Implemented continuous integration across the company,
saving developer time and reducing deployment failures.
Linguist, SysadminNeuric Technologies (September 2006 – August 2013)
Co-authored Parent Predicate-Argument Structure (PPAS) system
to improve concept mapping in automatic textual analysis.
Developed ontology for natural language parsing.
Built Powershell and Python administration tools to manage internal infrastructure.