Skills & Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • NextJS
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • Node.JS
  • Performance Optimization
  • Test Driven Development
  • Terraform
  • New Relic
  • APM
  • RUM
  • Databricks
  • Express
  • bash
  • scripting
  • REST
  • AWS
  • Git
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Vite
  • Webpack
  • Python
  • Redux
  • Roku
  • BrightScript
  • SceneGraph
  • Databases
  • NoSQL
  • SQL
  • ActiveMQ
  • MongoDB
  • DocumentDB
  • PostgresQL
  • Turbo Repo
  • ORM
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CICD
  • ElasticSearch
  • Serverless
  • nginx

Industry Experience

Econify Logo/Senior Software Developer at Econify, LLC.

Full-Time, March 2020 — Present, Bothell, WA

  • Web development with React & GraphQL, Roku development with Brightscript & SceneGraph.
  • Used modern best practices, techniques, and cutting-edge tech to create blazing fast enterprise-grade media applications.
  • Published and maintained open-source library graphql-request-profiler to help client API developers better understand their application's performance.

Hearst Newspapers Logo/Software Development Consultant at Hearst Newspapers

Contract, April 2022 - Present, Remote

  • Fostered a web-performance oriented culture by implementing a suite of tools to automatically track metrics like frontend bundle size via GitHub Actions, application lab performance reports via SpeedCurve, and real user monitoring (RUM).
  • Integrated New Relic APM, enabling observability into deployed environments to ensure operational excellence.
  • Created automated alerts to inform stakeholders of potential issues in real time.

Endeavor Logo/Software Development Consultant at Endeavor Streaming

Contract, December 2021 — April 2022, Remote

  • Led a small team of two other developers to build and ship a white-label Roku application for Endeavor Streaming's pool of clients in just under four months.
  • Leveraged the model-view-presenter design pattern with Brighterscript.
  • Designed and implemented a fully customized video player UI with video analytics integrated.

MotorTrend Logo/Software Development Consultant at MotorTrend

Contract, March 2020 — August 2021, Remote

  • Implemented new buyers guide pages for MotorTrend.com, taking the average load time from 10 seconds to 1 second, giving thousands of monthly users a 90% faster page load over the legacy site.
  • Refactored how ads are served on MotorTrend.com, giving a 10% reduction in page load size.
  • Designed and implemented a blazing fast ingress service worker for MotorTrend's CMS, capable of handling thousands of updates per second.

Dragonchain Logo/Software Developer at Dragonchain, Inc.

Full-Time, February 2018 — February 2020, Bellevue, WA

  • Developed foundational blockchain technology using Python and Kubernetes.
  • Maintained over 2000 customer production containers in production.
  • Designed and implemented Dragonchain's smart-contract-as-a-service platform and deployment pipeline using Python, OpenFaaS, and Kubernetes.
  • Designed and implemented error reporting and metrics services using AWS Cloudwatch, SNS, and Lambda for a suite of microservices.
  • Created and managed serverless infrastructure for static React websites using S3 and Cloudfront.

Certifications

Databricks Logo/Databricks Certified Associate Data Engineer

Issued January 2024, expires January 2026

Education

Western Washington University Logo/Western Washington University

Computer Science, B.S. with Mathematics Minor

Bellingham, WA, September 2013 — December 2017