Hi there, I'm a tech aficionado with a knack for architecting, designing, and implementing software systems. Whether it's cloud, containers, or systems - I love diving into the deep end of all things tech!

As a system and database administrator, I found my true passion working with database systems, virtual machines, and automation tooling. In addition to working with Oracle DB and MySQL, I developed automated maintenance strategies like backups and log monitoring for internal services, which sparked my interest in software engineering.

I continued my work as a system administrator, created automation tooling to reduce toil, and implemented internal services to simplify work on the intranet. This included developing Python management services and backends, Active Directory hooks in Go, and web clients in JavaScript. My passion for software engineering grew, and I decided to enroll in Computer Science at Oakland University to continue my journey.

As my interests grew, I moved into a software engineering role at Ally Financial where I worked on several projects. I re-architected mainframe programs and designed security software for compliance all while working with a ton of different technology like J2EE, Struts, Redis, Spring Boot, Angular, Jenkins, Docker, and OpenShift.

I eventually joined Dynatrace working on the Davis Assistant project. I worked on some pretty awesome integrations with Dynatrace APM, supporting use cases through organizational communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, and even browser integrations that automated product navigation as you talked to your device. I was also involved in re-architecting their notification pipeline and creating an automation around our natural language processing tool which was released as open source code, called Dialogflow-as-Code.

I later went on to join Skillshare, where I have served as a Staff Backend Engineer on the Platform team and played a key role in fostering collaboration between SRE and Platform engineers. I facilitated bug fixes, performance improvements, and also functioned as an Engineering Lead in close collaboration with the Foundation Engineering VP, developing quarterly OKRs and participating in weekly leadership meetings. In addition to my Lead role, I also worked on projects improving platform observability, SEO, and IAM security. I was passionate about building useful developer tooling, which was widely utilized across various languages, greatly improving the developer experience across the organization.

Needless to say, my passions lie in complex problems, reducing toil, and bringing users great experiences. Plus, I'm a pro at facilitating Scrum meetings and ensuring team growth.