Google, Boulder

• Owner of critical internal payments notification infrastructure, handling 10k+ requests per second. This system underpins all money movement through Google.
• Replaced an error-prone notification publishing system with a robust queue-based solution.
• Created a high-fidelity test setup to ensure safe migration of complex, critical payment code.
• Led a ~10-person effort to replace legacy auth in dozens of payments jobs with Google's preferred infra.
• Performed database migrations of up to 100B+ rows.
• Member of two oncall rotations and top 5% code contributor by commits and lines of code.

Churchill Navigation, Boulder

• Project manager and lead developer for the ION video and metadata recorder, a team of ~5 engineers.
• Authored a C++ flowgraph software API underlying two flagship products.
• Developed a web editor for real-time construction and monitoring of software graphs.
• Wrote libraries for KLV, Intel QuickSync video transcoding, time synchronization, etc.
• Guided creation of prototype for low-latency live streaming video from an airborne platform to the web.
• Integrated 3rd party hardware over serial, cameralink, UDP, TCP/IP, RTSP, SNMP, ARINC-429, and other protocols.
• Spearheaded a formal review and compensation program.
• Interviewed and oversaw hiring of engineers.

Relay Foods, Charlottesville

• Led a team of 5+ analysts.
• Performed revenue and breakeven financial modeling to identify the strongest drivers of profitability for the company.
• Built and maintained cloud infrastructure hosted in Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, and SQS) and continuous integration in TeamCity.
• Led a three-person technology team that addressed all technology requirements for Relay, including the customer-facing website, the admin website, and various internal operational tools and reports.
• Implemented and maintained a data warehouse.
• Integrated e-commerce and accounting software for accurate revenue tracking.
• Created a prototype warehouse pick and pack system.

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque

• Lead primary signal processing development for a high-speed FPGA downsampling, filtering, and communication application.
• Performed maintenance and development on a subsystems monitoring tool for an airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system.
• Initiated a ground-up rewrite of a SAR image visualization and exploration tool.

Elder Research, Inc, Charlottesville

• Participated in multiple data mining teams whose projects included the development of financial technical trading models, a targeted consumer cross-selling application, a language-agnostic semantic text processor, and a Netflix recommender engine.
• Authored or co-authored three commercial data mining products.
• Cleaned, processed, and prepared data.

Cornell University, Ithaca