Chief Technology Officer
Prairieline Payments · Kansas City, MO
Mar, 2020
Scaled engineering org from 85 to 310 across 4 countries while keeping regretted attrition under 6%.
Led migration of core payments ledger to event-driven microservices on AWS, raising throughput 9x to 14,000 TPS.
Cut annual cloud spend by $7.8M (34%) via FinOps program, reserved capacity, and workload right-sizing.
Achieved SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS Level 1 with zero material findings two years running.
Partnered with CEO and CFO on Series D diligence that raised $180M.
VP of Engineering
Heartland Freight Systems · Overland Park, KS
Jun, 2014 · Feb, 2020
Built real-time shipment tracking platform serving 22,000 carriers and 1.1M daily events.
Introduced SRE practice and on-call standards, lifting uptime from 99.5% to 99.95%.
Reduced release cycle from monthly to daily with CI/CD and trunk-based development.
Grew team from 40 to 140 engineers and launched an internal engineering leadership program.
Director of Software Engineering
Cerner Corporation · Kansas City, MO
Aug, 2009 · May, 2014
Led 6 teams delivering clinical data APIs used by 900+ hospitals.
Drove HL7 FHIR adoption, cutting partner integration time from 12 weeks to 3.
Senior Software Engineer
Garmin International · Olathe, KS
Jul, 2006 · Jul, 2009
Built fleet telematics backend services in Java handling 40M location pings per day.