Experience
- Founding member of the personalization team; shaped team culture, tooling, and architecture from the ground up.
- Built WebSocket-powered real-time event highlighting, enabling live bet-slip updates across thousands of concurrent users.
- Delivered an ML-backed content service with multi-layer caching to surface personalized promotions at scale.
- Engineered RESTful APIs and end-to-end data management for "Pass the Leg," a high-profile holiday campaign enabling collaborative parlay building and sharing.
- Implemented bet link sharing via hash codes, reducing friction in the social sharing flow.
- Architected a TypeScript/JS aggregation service with third-party integrations, improving data consistency across bet feeds.
- Led Python/Locust performance testing campaigns, validating 100k+ req/s throughput with Kubernetes pre-scaling strategies.
- Owned Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines; drove zero-downtime deployments.
- Set up Datadog observability dashboards and on-call runbooks; reduced mean time to resolution for production incidents.
- Adopted AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) into daily engineering workflow; championed team-wide AI adoption.
- Conducts daily PR reviews and mentors junior engineers toward technical ownership.
- Built and maintained Spring Boot microservices and Angular front-ends for civic technology platforms.
- Provided technical oversight and guidance for a cross-functional development team.
- Managed Agile workload planning, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder communications.
- Solved complex problems across multiple technology stacks; mentored junior developers.
- Developed Java/Spring web services integrated with IBM WebSphere and DataPower middleware.
- Performed end-to-end testing with SoapUI, ReadyAPI, and SQL Developer.
- Produced client-facing technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
- Wrote Oracle SQL queries for data validation and ETL processes.
- Deployed applications to AWS S3 and EC2; supported infrastructure transitions.
- Conducted security reviews using Fortify 360; remediated findings before production.
Skills
Things I Like
- Building products that feel genuinely delightful to use
- Clean TypeScript and well-reasoned backend architecture
- Mentoring engineers and fostering technical ownership
- Developer experience, observability, and resilient systems
- Practical AI workflows that make the team faster
- Performance engineering and making scale boring
Education
B.S. Information TechnologyFlorida State University2013 – 2015
A.A. General StudiesDaytona State College2011 – 2013
SECRETActive Secret Clearance (T3) · 2020–2030