Senior software engineer with 8+ years building distributed systems and developer platforms. Led design and delivery of event-driven services processing millions of daily events, cut p99 latency, and mentored ICs across backend and platform teams. Strong in Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and pragmatic system design for reliability and operability.
Employment History
Senior Software Engineer
Peakline Systems · Boulder, CO
Jan, 2021 · Present
• Designed and shipped a Go/Kafka event pipeline that processes 4M+ events/day with 99.95% delivery success.
• Cut p99 API latency from 420ms to 110ms by introducing caching, request coalescing, and query path redesign.
• Owned the internal developer platform (CI templates, service scaffolding, observability defaults) used by 12 product teams.
• Mentored 5 engineers; led design reviews and incident postmortems for platform-critical outages.
• Migrated 18 services to Kubernetes with progressive delivery and SLO-based alerting.
Software Engineer
FrontRange Digital · Denver, CO
Jun, 2017 · Dec, 2020
• Built TypeScript/Node microservices and React admin tools for a B2B SaaS billing product serving 200+ enterprise accounts.
• Introduced contract tests and canary deploys that reduced production regressions ~40% over two quarters.
• Partnered with SRE to add OpenTelemetry tracing across the checkout path; MTTR for billing incidents fell from hours to under 30 minutes.
• Led a GDPR/data-retention project that automated PII redaction for 3 data stores.
Undergraduate Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO
Sep, 2015 · May, 2017
• Built Python analysis tooling for a distributed systems lab; co-authored internal notes used by subsequent cohorts.
• TA for Data Structures and Algorithms; held office hours and graded projects for ~80 students per semester.