Resume

Summary

Principal Software Engineer focused on platform infrastructure. I design and ship the systems that let engineering teams move fast. Most recently, I built an on-demand Kubernetes test environment system that cut setup from days or weeks down to 3-4 hours and scaled to 50-60 concurrent environments for a 30-engineer organization, replacing shared long-lived integration environments. I also authored the company-wide CI/CD pipeline standard adopted across engineering. 15+ years across platform engineering, backend architecture, and developer tooling — with active practice in AI/LLM agent workflows.

Experience

Basis Technologies — Chicago, IL

Formerly Centro; rebranded October 2021.

Principal Software Engineer | Apr 2023–Present

Architect and own platform infrastructure for the engineering organization (~30 engineers across product and platform teams). Serve as Developer Liaison coordinating technical dependencies between product and platform groups.

• Designed and led an on-demand full-stack integration environment system on AWS EKS — reduced test environment setup from days or weeks to 3-4 hours; scaled to 50-60 concurrent environments, replacing shared long-lived integration environments
• Authored the company-wide CI/CD pipeline standard: 14-stage pipeline, Docker multi-stage builds, semantic versioning, three deployment modes (locked standard, configurable, fully custom)
• Built long-lived Sales demo environment on Kubernetes with daily synthetic delivery data generation, weekly automated rebuild from snapshot, and on-demand org/user provisioning via pipeline
• Managed the full transition from the legacy environment pipeline to the new E2E pipeline suite — legacy pipeline retired Jan 2025
• Designed namespace-per-service Kubernetes architecture for multi-application environments
• Led two company-wide bootcamp sessions on Kubernetes environment usage (Apr 2023, Dec 2024)

Technologies: AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Kafka, Snowflake, Datadog, Python, Ruby on Rails

Staff Software Engineer | Oct 2021–Apr 2023

• Led migration of all data pipeline workloads to Kubernetes (5+ pipeline types: data ingestion, dimensional modeling, batch aggregation, real-time event processing, Hadoop jobs)
• Drove company-wide CI/CD platform adoption — built first standardized pipelines for core API and analytics services
• Designed and built shared integration environment system with cloud data warehouse, event streaming, and persistent storage setup
• Completed Hadoop NameNode High Availability migration on Kubernetes
• Added M1 developer machine support

Technologies: AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Hadoop, Kafka, Snowflake, Python, Ruby

Centro — Chicago, IL

Staff Software Engineer | Oct 2020–Oct 2021

• Migrated analytics data backend from monolith to dedicated analytics microservice
• Built Kubernetes-based local development environment tooling adopted across engineering
• Set up the initial Kubernetes environment for the core platform application
• Built Dockerized synthetic delivery data generation service for integration testing
• Authored technical evaluation for real-time campaign collaboration: WebSocket vs. polling analysis

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis

Lead Software Engineer | May 2019–Oct 2020

• Led a three-milestone campaign performance dashboard initiative — replaced fragmented tables with actionable charts (pacing %, KPI %, agency margin %); reduced time to identify at-risk campaigns
• Designed real-time campaign collaboration system with WebSocket vs. polling evaluation
• Led product analytics GDPR compliance integration
• Owned engineering interview process and take-home exercises for QA and frontend roles

Technologies: AWS, Ruby on Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, React, Docker

Senior Software Engineer | Aug 2017–May 2019

• Designed and implemented backend for a queued bulk-edit system — async Sidekiq Batch processing with live progress polling, per-item receipts, and concurrency-limited job execution
• Refactored and migrated two overlapping data models into one unified model
• Implemented data rollback for database deadlock scenarios in an optimistic locking application
• Mentored engineers on Ruby and Rails architecture and design patterns

Technologies: AWS, Ruby on Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, React, Node.js, Docker, Java

Software Engineer | Jul 2015–Aug 2017

• Refactored monolithic Campaign Overview endpoint into four parallel view-specific endpoints, enabling progressive page rendering
• Built a data generation utility for manual testing and a manual upload feature that ingests spreadsheet data into the interactive dashboard

Technologies: AWS, Ruby on Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, React, Node.js, Docker

Tukaiz, LLC — Franklin Park, IL

Software Development Manager | May 2014–Jul 2015

• Developed multi-tenant application using LocomotiveCMS with back-end services and third-party email marketing integration
• Configured AWS infrastructure defenses against DOS attacks
• Established documentation culture that shortened developer onboarding

Technologies: AWS, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Application Development Specialist | Dec 2011–May 2014

• Designed and developed a document storage system for large file uploads delivered via CDN
• Created signage placement guide generator (SVG-to-interactive-guide)

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript

Volition / THQ — Champaign, IL

Technical Artist | Jun 2007–Jan 2011

Pipeline and tooling work for AAA game development. Game credits: Saints Row 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla.

• Built Python-based XML and light editors with live in-game feedback
• Designed camera-based parallax shader solution for in-game windows
• Developed workflow for rapid city layout prototyping using grammar-based generation software

Technologies: Python, MaxScript, C++, C#, HLSL

Projects

Diagram Builder | 2026 | TypeScript, Node, React, Three.js, Neo4j

Open-source code visualization platform — parses repositories into a dependency graph, renders 2D and 3D layouts (force-directed, radial-BFS), supports semantic tiered views, and exports to multiple formats. Built with agent-driven development workflows using Claude Code and the Anthropic SDK.

Skills

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design — Savannah, GA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interactive Design and Game Development | 2002–2006

Code Academy (now the Starter League) — Chicago, IL Ruby on Rails Development | 2011