Associate Director of AI & Sofware Engineering – Kyndryl (Remote)

Oct 2025 – Present

  • Burning tokens to write code
  • Burning tokens to fix code
  • Expert at tab completion

Lead Engineer – Raft (Remote), Sept 2022 – Oct 2025

  • Rewrote entire airspace management application to implement event sourcing, enabling the creation of temporal airspaces
  • Identified and resolved a critical performance bottleneck in event processing, improving event consumption time from 3+ seconds to 11 milliseconds by modifying the database schema and optimizing event handling logic
  • Identified and resolved critical out-of-memory errors in conflict detection and data processing logic, preventing system crashes and implementing proper exception handling to ensure application stability
  • Designed and executed a zero-downtime strategy for rehydrating historical event data, successfully processing months of events in the background without interrupting user access to the live application
  • Implemented a cross-tenant architecture to support multiple Air Operation Centers sharing data and resources
  • Managed remote team of 7 direct reports, fostering their growth through 1:1s, career pathing, and knowledge-sharing sessions
  • Technologies used: React, Java, Spring Boot, MySQL/Postgres, Protobuf

Principal Full Stack Engineer – Raft (Remote)

Feb 2022 – Sept 2022

  • Co-led the implementation of full-stack features and bug fixes, enhancing Kessel Run's airspace management application and improving overall system reliability and user experience
  • Influenced changes in how user stories are written to include more detailed acceptance criteria, reducing development time and minimizing rework by clarifying expectations between Product, UX, and Engineering teams
  • Demonstrated rapid learning by mastering a new technology stack (Java, Spring Boot, Go, Kubernetes) within weeks

Principal Application Engineer – Westrock (Remote)

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022

  • Lead architect responsible for defining and implementing a reference architecture that can streamline building, testing and deploying full stack web applications
  • Developed the UI and created .NET APIs for an application to view databases in AWS Glue
  • Created docker files and docker compose files to run UI and APIs in containers

Engineering Manager – Westrock (Remote)

Oct 2019 – Jul 2021

  • Managed a remote team of 4, conducted performance reviews, and resolved interpersonal conflicts
  • Created an Android app to automate shipment status updates, saving over $250,000/year
  • Implemented a digital health questionnaire and a Covid tracker app for HR
  • Led development on a theme-able pizza box recycling web app for partners like Dominos

Sr. Application Engineer – Westrock (Remote)

Mar – Oct 2019

  • Hired 4 engineers and 6 UX designers
  • Lead a full rewrite of a complex application tracking hundreds of millions of dollars for capital projects
  • Created many React apps for internal use, collaborating with cross-functional teams

Software Engineer – Westrock (Remote)

Dec 2017 – Mar 2019

  • Created a React Native application for employees to manage approvals, paychecks, and HR requests
  • Lead the effort to design a unified user experience by creating a themed React boilerplate, component library, and design system
  • Technologies used: React, React Native, Material UI, styled-components, Azure DevOps

Software Engineer – Akamai Technologies

Aug 2015 – Jul 2017

  • Led development of four Angular JS applications, overseeing contributions from two senior engineers
  • Developed a component library in Angular JS and Bootstrap used in 75+ applications
  • Core contributor to a new user onboarding application which reduced onboarding time from weeks to hours

User Experience Designer – Akamai Technologies

Feb – Aug 2015

  • Created a clickable prototype of the next-gen customer portal demoed to Akamai executives
  • Produced wireframes and designed components to achieve a consistent user experience