- Spearhead the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge data solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Oversee the architecture and deployment of scalable data infrastructure, driving efficiency and performance across all engineering projects.
- Cultivate a culture of innovation within the engineering team, encouraging experimentation and the adoption of emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge.
Work
- Jul 2024 - PresentSalutary DataDirector of Engineering
- Oct 2021 - Jun 2024VervintCloud Architect
- Architected solutions for a variety of clients developing IoT and other digital products in both AWS and Azure with a bias towards leveraging PaaS and serverless services and patterns.
- Acted as a DevOps lead on a series of engagements that involved both consulting on how to implement DevOps practices as well as hands-on design and delivery of CI/CD and observability systems.
- Effectively earned and sustained trusted relationships with key stakeholders within client organizations.
- Mentored and coached peers in both technical and career development capacities.
- Feb 2021 - Oct 2021TraegerSenior IoT Engineer
- Acted as lead engineer and architect for all cross-functional partners with IoT needs.
- Managed multiple product releases for durable consumer goods and customer facing digital products.
- Hardened cloud configurations and processes in preparation for the company going public.
- Designed compute layers for critical IoT user experience workloads leveraging serverless patterns.
- Engineered and automated data platform to handle 5 petabytes of IoT, marketing, product, mobile apps, and supply chain data.
- Sep 2019 - Feb 2021Open Systems TechnologiesSenior IoT Consultant
- Migrated a client’s IoT platform from a cloud provider sunsetting their services to AWS in matter of 3 months.
- Drove cost optimizations across major cloud platforms that yielded a 75% cost reduction for primary client.
- Created DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code pipelines to improve engineer development time and best practices.
- Extended AWS IoT Jobs to manage firmware over the air (OTA) updates for a fleet growing to over 2 million devices.
- Utilized AWS IoT Core, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Fargate, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, Athena, and others.
- Coordinated with a variety of functional teams including firmware, mobile, user experience, and data for connected products.