Polyglot Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and maintaining scalable backend systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. Specialized in functional programming, AWS cloud infrastructure, and serverless architectures. Returns to full-time remote work with a focus on asynchronous collaboration, output-driven contributions, and flexible time-zone workflows. Proven track record in high-impact projects, open-source contributions, and building systems for reliability and scalability.
- Backend Engineering: Scala (Http4s, Cats/Cats-Effect), Node.js, Python
- Frontend Engineering: JS, CSS, React, Redux, Ramda
- Cloud & Serverless: AWS Lambda, EMR, EC2, S3, IAM, Batch
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Bash
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- CI/CD Pipelines: Build, test, and deployment automation
- Asynchronous Collaboration: Documentation-first workflows, issue/PR-driven development, distributed team experience
- Banno at Jack Henry (Scala Backend Consultant): Maintained and optimized HTTP microservices for banking domains, led migration of 100+ microservices to Scala 3 & Cats-Effect 3, partnered with infrastructure teams to migrate services to Kubernetes.
- Dataline: Designed and deployed a serverless, scalable batch orchestration microservice using Spark 3 on AWS EMR and Lambda, enabling horizontal scaling and future streaming workloads.
- DARPA Projects (THoR & Prometheus): Developed backend microservices for scientific data systems, applied functional programming techniques to reduce computation times by ~50%, and maintained AWS compute clusters.
- Sundial: Improved the AWS CloudFormation deployment pipeline and documentation for a Scala scheduler for running dockerized batch computing jobs.
- Keysemaphore: Contributed the Cats-Effect's migration to CE3, and Scala 3 migration.
- Glamorous: Contributed documentation translations to a widely used CSS-in-JS library.
- Computer Science Coursework Completed: 48 credit hours, University of Virginia (2013 – 2015)
- Full-Stack Development: FreeCodeCamp (2015 – 2016)
- DataTalksClub's Data Engineering Zoomcamp (2026 - ongoing)