Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in modernizing legacy systems. Proven track record in migrating and realigning heritage systems to improve platform stability while enhancing internal and partner user needs and long-term maintainability.
Experienced in testing, producing clear documentation, and communicating business needs. Demonstrated mastery of a wide range of languages and frameworks, large-scale distributed systems delivered at scale, and driving maintainable and responsive code.
Quick to grasp unfamiliar codebases, apply inventive troubleshooting skills, and discover and analyze anomalies across complex system environments
Proven track record in mentoring both technical and soft skills, team building, and enabling effective collaboration
Keen to reconcile technical and organizational value to meet organizational needs, contribute to core business functions, and align with business goals
Enjoys simplifying complex topics, mentoring, guiding to growth, solving problems, and improving existing code.
- Languages: Go, Java, JavaScript
- Frameworks and Persistence: Spring, gorilla‑mux, redis, major relational databases
- Cloud-Native and Observability: kubernetes, Docker, OpenTelemetry, AWS
- OS and environments: Linux, OS X, distributed systems
- Coding environments: VS Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse
- Tools: git, maven, Jira
Alaska Airlines Check-In Modernization Program
- Migrated the check‑in experience from a third‑party platform to modern, in‑house Go in Kubernetes
AppNexus Console and UXUA: Universal Xandr User Authentication
- Implemented federated single sign‑on for the core product website with SAML and OpenID Connect
- Extended federated single sign-on across all customer-facing applications with SAML and OpenID Connect. Federated identity management, identity mapping, and account mapping.
NobleHour and Collaboratory
- Corrected, improved, and stabilized SAML2 service provider implementation, s3 asset management; refined and expanded cucumber integration tests; implemented Go-based microservices
Social login platform built on a variety of technologies and deployed wholly on AWS
- Migrated Java Spring application persistence layer from Amazon SimpleDB to redis, and raised uptime of key component to five 9s
C2CIM project for footwear design and product lifecycle management
- Mentored contract programmers; guided adoption of mature developer testing practices
eXPRS project, handling millions of dollars in state funding for disabled and indigent care recipients
- Developed automated build system; Mentored team members; Key designer and developer of authentication component
Major metropolitan newspaper early web presence
- Deployed and maintained a directory of businesses with location mapping
- Maintained system to push print classified ads to web site
- Developed site end-user registration and authentication system
- Photography – Award winning film photographer specializing in black and white techniques
- Hiking & Camping
University of Texas, Austin — Austin, Texas Bachelor of Arts, Journalism