Experience

Staff Software Engineer (L6)
Google
July 2020 - Present
Fleet Configuration and Product Catalog (FC/PC)
  • Spearheaded a new change management engine maintaining data, configuration, infrastructure, and schema updates to over 700,000 racks.

  • Pioneered machine vision driven cable placement and routing for datacenters and rack to rack networking.

Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE-III)
Amazon.com
July 2013 June 2020
Finance Technology (Fintech)
  • Led design and development for two fully automated big data aggregation engines that calculate cost and revenue for over 1 thousand AWS service offerings across all internal and external customers.

  • Invented an SQL compilation and build framework that improves efficiency of queries on average by 45%, and pushed for its consumption by multiple other teams around the company.

  • Oversaw 31 developers in US, Canada, and India for five different teams that own 11 services and four portals.

  • Created four organization wide initiatives to spread best engineering practices through design reviews, operational readiness reviews, testing/continuous deployment (CI/CD) reviews, and weekly book clubs.

  • Encouraged innovation through the introduction of a quarterly hackathon and science fair with over 80 attendees including the organization's VP.

Amazon Live (Poppin)
  • Architected a realtime video streaming service capable of handling over 30 thousand concurrent feeds to over 1 million viewers through intelligent active caching and a distributed content delivery network (CDN).

  • Collaborated with several teams to support chat, deals, moderation, metrics, and automated scale management.

Sustainability (Green)
  • Organized fulfillment center package drop-testing, a key component of the company initiative to remove 50 million pounds of dunnage and cardboard waste year over year.

  • Reduced operational ticket burden on three separate high scale services by over 25% through root cause analysis, correction of error documentation, and automation.

  • Expanded team from 10 to 19 engineers with onsite interviews, phonescreens, and online technical assessments.

  • Encouraged growth and learning among coworkers by hosting over 24 lunch and learn sessions covering topics like GIT, React, Android, Internet-of-Things (IOT), Serverless Architecture, Arduino, and 3D Printing.

Technology

Languages: Java/Scala, NodeJS/Javascript/Typescript, C/C++, SQL, Lua
AWS: S3, DynamoDB, RDS, EC2, Lambda, Glue ETL + Data Catalog, CloudFront, SQS/SNS, Cloud Development Kit

Education

Bachelor of Science
in Computer Science
University of Oklahoma
2010 - 2013
CourseWork: Major GPA: 3.79, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Algorithm Analysis, Data Structures, Theory of Computation

Volunteer

Hardware Engineer
Biggest Little Fur Con
2019 - 2021
Web Dev Engineer
ConCat Registration System
2019
Chat-Bot Engineer
Pixelator
2017
iOS and Android App Engineer
Appable
2012