Summary

Work experience

• Principal Engineer

  ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)

  2023.05-Current

  (2 years)

  Responsible for guiding overall architecture and technical direction, as well as various organizational initiatives to improve operational excellence, approach to quality, and engineering best practices.
• Senior Software Engineer

  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  2017.01-2023.05

  (6 years)

  Working on the DynamoDB service, focusing on performance and routing. Worked on the design, build, launch, and evolution of Amazon Keyspaces.
• Principal Architect

  SimpleEnergy

  2014.02-2017.01

  (3 years)

  Engineering generalist, primarily under the Data Intelligence Team.
• Principal Engineer

  RichRelevance

  2013.08-2014.02

  (7 months)

  Responsible for design and implementation of scalable, performant Big Data solutions.
• Lead Infrastructure Engineer

  Precog

  2011.10-2013.08

  (2 years)

  Solve hard problems in big data.
• Senior Network Engineer, Chief Security Architect

  CPI Corporation

  2000.11-2011.10

  (11 years)

  Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of a 3000+ site retail VPN network. Responsible for development of in-house monitoring and support applications in Scala, Lift, J2EE and .Net. Responsible for the design and implementation of a large-scale image-processing system handling hundreds of thousands of customer images per day.

Educational experience

• Washington University

  MS in Computer Science

  1999.09-2003.07

  (4 years)
• Case Western Reserve University

  BS in Computer Science

  1994.09-1998.07

  (4 years)

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