About Me
Background & Experience
I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience across full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and observability engineering. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science (Minor in Accounting) from Syracuse University and have since worked across fintech, media, and public safety industries—building systems that scale.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Flock Safety
May 2025 – Present
Remote
- •Led blue/green deployment process for upgrading AWS EKS clusters, creating reusable Terraform modules consumed across the organization.
- •Coordinated cutover of 40+ services—including stateful workloads and cloud volumes—to a new EKS cluster with only 10 minutes of downtime.
- •Created GitHub Actions workflows to improve CI/CD for multiple teams; managed a Terraform monorepo release process.
- •Onboarded a new company acquisition onto internal AI tooling, private library repositories, reusable GitHub Actions, and Terraform modules.
- •Established distributed AWS VPC networking connections across multiple accounts for trusted, lossless internal connectivity.
Senior Software Engineer
Pluto TV
Aug 2021 – May 2025
Los Angeles, CA
- •Established an observability stack using OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, AWS, Golang, and Harness—enhancing monitoring across 30+ services.
- •Developed a tracing pipeline processing 100,000 trace events per second to Datadog for real-time visualization.
- •Created custom Golang libraries capturing trace and span IDs within log events, linking 400 million logs daily to traces in Datadog.
- •Contributed to a Helm chart deploying Datadog agents as a Daemonset for Kubernetes-wide log, trace, and metrics ingestion.
- •Reduced server response time by 30% through optimized Kubernetes deployment configuration.
Full Stack Engineer
GoSite
Mar 2021 – Jul 2021
San Diego, CA
- •Monitored and updated backend data via inter-communicating AWS Lambdas storing results in MongoDB.
- •Wrote aggregation scripts to lookup and update data across multiple MongoDB collections.
- •Planned architecture for a messaging system using AWS API Gateway, SNS, and Lambdas.
Software Engineer
Parallax Volatility Advisers
Jun 2020 – Mar 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
- •Developed and enhanced trader-facing applications for tracking positions using C# on Windows.
- •Created 3 scheduled tasks with PowerShell and C# to pull consistent trade and pricing data from Bloomberg.
- •Assisted in designing architecture to move from Windows thick clients to web-based apps using TypeScript, React, AWS, and Python.
Software Engineer
Wellington Management
Jul 2018 – Jun 2020
Boston, MA
- •Developed backend Node.js infrastructure using TypeScript for proprietary internal applications.
- •Contributed to JavaScript/TypeScript libraries and higher-order components for React applications.
- •Developed the CI/CD pipeline for publishing applications hosted on AWS (Python Flask and Node.js Express).
- •Built Node.js RESTful microservices pulling metadata from Oracle databases.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
Cloud & Infrastructure
Observability
Databases
Tools & Platforms
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Minor in Accounting
Syracuse University
College of Engineering and Computer Science
2014 – 2018 · Syracuse, NY
Certifications
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate