Work Experience

Fastly

Staff Software Engineer Apr 2022 – Present | Remote
  • Scaled and rearchitected NGWAF Edge provisioning, WASM deployment, and config delivery systems to meet massive product growth
  • Core contributor to the NGWAF edge engine processing security decisions across Fastly's global POP network
  • Golang, WebAssembly, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, gRPC
Senior Software Engineer Aug 2020 – Mar 2022 | Remote
  • Built bot detection and account takeover protection systems at CDN edge scale
  • Led initial implementation of provisioning, WASM deployment, and config delivery for Fastly's NGWAF Edge product
  • Golang, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, gRPC

Fender Musical Instruments

Senior Software Engineer May 2019 – May 2020 | Hollywood, CA
  • Led migration from third-party Lambda to native Go, reducing cold start latency and eliminating vendor dependency
  • Designed curriculum backend powering Fender Play's lesson delivery system
  • Built MusicXML parser enabling automated tablature ingestion into learning platform
  • Golang, Javascript, React, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgresql, Elasticsearch

i.am+

Software Engineering Manager Aug 2018 – May 2019 | Hollywood, CA
  • Directed US infrastructure strategy for music streaming platform launch
  • Managed cross-functional coordination between US engineering and offshore teams across 3 time zones
  • Maintained hands-on development while owning technical architecture decisions
  • Golang, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Ruby
Senior Software Engineer Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 | Hollywood, CA
  • Architected music streaming infrastructure processing Gracenote and 7Digital data deliveries for AI-powered music discovery
  • Built distributed systems serving music metadata to internal NLP engines enabling natural language queries
  • Developed backend services for 'buttons' headphones and smartwatch; provided EQ tuning expertise as audio domain specialist
  • Golang, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Neo4j

goSeek

Software Engineer Mar 2015 – Mar 2016 | Remote
  • Built unified booking API aggregating multiple third-party hotel providers
  • Ruby On Rails, Redis, Memcached, Postgresql w/ PostGIS

resound.fm

Co-Founder / Lead Backend Engineer Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 | San Luis Obispo, CA
  • Co-founded startup; owned full platform from data modeling to infrastructure
  • Ruby On Rails, Redis, Websockets, Postgresql, Chef

RadPad

Software Engineer Jan 2014 – Mar 2014 | Santa Monica, CA
  • Redesigned backend aggregation service achieving 3x performance improvement
  • Ruby On Rails, Postgresql, S3

Down

Software Engineering Intern Jun 2013 – Oct 2013 | San Francisco, CA
  • Built Neo4j graph and API v2.0 powering match discovery for 1.3M users
  • Ruby on Rails, Neo4j, Postgresql