Engineering depth at every altitude.

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Career portfolio

Choose where to go deeper.

Each role opens into its systems, decisions, measurable outcomes, and the richer evidence gathered through our career interviews.

mydecisive.ai

VP of Engineering (Co-founder)

Sep 2023 – Present

Observability platform architecture

Architect an OpenTelemetry platform from zero

Led and architected SmartHub's company-wide platform on OpenTelemetry and adjacent telemetry technologies, establishing the technical foundation beneath Octant's user-facing control plane and the broader MyDecisive product suite.

Company-wide platform architecture

OpenTelemetry-based technical foundation

Platform and product suite launched as open source

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New Relic, Inc.

Head of Engineering - Incubator

Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

People management

Manage a 15-person engineering organization

Directly managed 15 engineers—including two engineering managers—and supported their work across seven incubator initiatives.

15 direct reports

2 engineering managers

7 product initiatives

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New Relic, Inc.

Lead Software Engineer - Incubator

May 2021 – Sep 2022

Hands-on engineering

Make system relationships visible

Helped build reusable maps connecting resources and hosts with golden signals and correlated undesirable behavior.

Direct individual-contributor work

Reused across relational visualizations

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Slalom

Software Architect / Lead Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – May 2021

Elastic commerce architecture

Design an elastic commerce foundation

Architected an elastic commerce foundation now supporting 180M+ annual orders, with follow-on systems scaling to 1.5M TPS.

180M+ orders annually

99.99% uptime across global kiosk deployments

Follow-on systems up to 1.5M TPS

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Launch Forth

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2017 – Jan 2019

Technical leadership

Align a full platform team

Led requirements, architecture, design, implementation, testing, and release work across frontend, backend, UX/UI, and QA.

Cross-functional platform team

Architecture through CI/CD

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Mondo Robot

Senior Software Engineer, Projects Lead

Jul 2016 – Nov 2017

Application engineering

Adapt engineering to the problem domain

Built web and mobile applications across telecommunications, operations, healthcare research, science and archaeology, beer, and cycling.

Web and mobile

Six distinct industry contexts

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Current technical practice

What I work with now.

Current capabilities grouped by engineering domain, with recency and exploration labeled explicitly.

AI, automation, and iteration

Right tool for the right job: Spec Kit for organization, Claude Code for architecture, Codex for implementation, and Gemini for research
Context-grounded AI across repositories and APIs
Human-in-the-loop architecture refinement
Reusable agent skills and self-teaching systems
Automated benchmarking, regression, and E2E pipelines

Observability platform architecture

Company-wide OpenTelemetry platform architecture and technical leadership
OpenTelemetry solution design and observability best practices
Telemetry pipelines and on-the-wire data processing
Semantic fidelity and multivendor protocol translation
Grafana dashboards and observability visualization
Mock and synthetic data plus solution-oriented OpenTelemetry manifests to prove platform-solution efficacy

Platform engineering and delivery

Kubernetes
Argo CD and centralized GitOps governance
Docker and container image creation
GitHub Actions and delivery workflows
GHCR
Bash, Just, and Make process automation

Cloud and distributed systems

AWS technologies (fluent)
CloudFormation, Lambda, and API Gateway
SNS and SQS
Event-driven architecture

Languages and application development

Backend: Node.js (current); Python and Go (refreshing); Java, .NET, and Rails (past)
Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, and React

Data platforms and storage

Prometheus and PromQL
GreptimeDB and Valkey
DynamoDB, GraphQL, and SQL
S3 and other object storage

Architecture and engineering practice

System architecture and event-driven systems
Dependency and relationship graphs
Context repositories, reusable agent skills, and self-teaching systems
Algorithm design and code review
TDD, CI/CD, Clean/SOLID, and lean architecture

Exploring next

Rust
Svelte
WebAssembly (Wasm)
Apache Iceberg and other cold-storage architectures
OpenTelemetry + Apache Arrow roadmap
ClickHouse

Historical technical foundation

The tools underneath the leadership.

This 2016–2021 foundation shows where the current leadership and architecture practice began; it is not a claim that every tool remains current.

2016–2021 technical foundation

Languages and application development

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

React

2016–2021 technical foundation

Cloud and distributed systems

AWS

CloudFormation

Lambda

API Gateway

SNS / SQS

Event-driven architecture

2016–2021 technical foundation

Engineering practices

System architecture

Test-driven development

CI/CD

Clean / SOLID code

Functional programming

Lean architecture

Agile / Scrum

Jest

Jasmine

PyTest

2016–2021 technical foundation

Software design patterns

State machines

Event broadcasting

Adapter

Factory

Observer

Iterator

Builder

Composite

2021 CV

Technical interests at the time

Open-source development

Graph databases

AI / machine learning / deep learning

Earlier experience

The foundation before Mondo Robot.

A compact chronology of the application engineering, consulting, technical teaching, and customer-facing work that shaped the senior engineering career featured above.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2016

Boulder, Colorado

Sr. UX Engineer / Full Stack Engineer

10-4 Systems, a Trimble Company

Built real-time transportation operations views and custom D3 analytics on top of Google APIs.

Created reusable UI wrappers and a Material Design component library to standardize application development.

Helped teams adopt Git and Git Flow after an SVN migration while coaching junior engineers through pair programming.

Jun 2013 – Nov 2014

Boulder, Colorado

Web Developer II (.NET/MVC)

Markit

Improved financial web application performance through lean client/server code and multithreaded server-side data loading.

Led internal tooling and cross-discipline engineering forums, including a 20-person Microsoft certification group.

Created project documentation and taught a four-week intensive developer program to accelerate onboarding and knowledge transfer.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2013

Indianapolis, Indiana

Application Consultant

Kronos

Built custom timekeeping and scheduling workflows that made enterprise HR software easier for customers to use.

Generated $7,700 in individual revenue within five weeks of completing an intensive training program.

Jan 2011 – Jun 2012

Bloomington, Indiana

Consultant Supervisor

University Information Technology Services (UITS)

Mentored more than 100 technology consultants across 99 campus labs while contributing to a 97% customer-satisfaction rate.

Handled more than 30 support appointments per month and directly coached five consultants each semester.