Features & Capabilities

A comprehensive guide to what happens when you combine systems engineering, questionable humor, and surprisingly fancy coffee.

Technical Leadership

Staff Systems Engineer at SpotHero, where I architect and build systems that scale as simply as possible.

  • • Infrastructure design & implementation
  • • Team structure + mentoring
  • • Incident response (professional panic management)

Systems Architecture

Designing distributed systems that survive contact with production. Currently convincing servers to behave at SpotHero with increasing success rates.

  • • Cloud-Native Network architecture (How *does* that traffic get to the app?)
  • • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and other ventures)
  • • Container orchestration (Kubernetes whisperer)

Creative Problem Solving

"Asks pertinent questions and makes sure they're solving the right problems"

  • • Root cause analysis (detective work, but for servers)
  • • Performance optimization
  • • Technical debt management (Marie Kondo for code)

Full-Stack Engineering

From Python to BASH, from Django to infrastructure-as-code. I speak fluent computer in multiple dialects.

  • • Python, Go, JavaScript, PHP, Java
  • • Django + web frameworks
  • • BASH scripting (the duct tape of the internet)

Notable Volunteering

Playa Info Tech

Volunteer

Deploying Lost+Found photo collection systems in the Nevada desert annually, and the re-deploying them to AWS. Because nothing says "technical challenge" like sand, dust, and microwave internet.

Django • Server Management • Desert Deployment

OpenReg (ended)

Event Tech

Co-created a flexible registration and e-commerce platform. Like Eventbrite, but with more customization, a smaller niche and zero corporate overlords.

PHP • CodeIgnighter • E-commerce/CRM

CUBE (ended)

Open Source

Annual dance exchange registration technology management. Inspired creation of OpenReg.

Teaching servers to dance is harder than it sounds.

Event Management • Registration Systems

Technical Arsenal

Languages

Python Go BASH Rust JS/TS PHP

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker AWS GCP Terraform

Monitoring

Prometheus Thanos Grafana ClickHouse OpenTelemetry Honeycomb

Soft Skills

Coffee Brewing Pun Creation Incident Calm Friendship