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Skills

JavaScript Python AWS React Node.js TypeScript GraphQL Observability

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Staff-level scope)

Oct 2021 - Present

Meta | Remote

  • Architected and led development of multiple internal platforms spanning developer productivity, observability, and execution workflows used across teams.
  • Drove significant gains in developer velocity by designing a custom VS Code extension that collapsed complex cross-device debugging workflows into a single-click experience, reducing time-to-debug for mobile and hardware-integrated systems.
  • Designed and deployed an AI-assisted logging and analysis platform that decreased time-to-fix metrics and reduced logging costs through intelligent filtering and token optimization.
  • Led the design and rollout of a scalable dogfooding platform adopted across multiple orgs, increasing internal alpha testing coverage by 250% and accelerating hardware/software feedback loops.
  • Architected planning and dependency platforms powering cross-org strategic initiatives across millions of internal tasks, improving ownership clarity, dependency management, and alignment on multi-quarter goals.
  • Acted as technical lead on multi-team efforts, setting architectural direction, mentoring senior engineers, and influencing roadmap decisions beyond immediate team boundaries.

Education Liaison

Oct 2018 - Present

Robots.Education | Salt Lake City

  • Teaching the next generation computer programming and robotics.

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

Amazon Web Services | Greater Seattle Area

  • Owned and evolved core infrastructure for EBS Snapshots, supporting 10+ PB of daily data transfers across regions with strict durability and availability requirements.
  • Led the migration of critical snapshot features between services, deprecating legacy systems and improving reliability while saving $500K-$1M annually in operational costs.
  • Designed and built foundational infrastructure and service dependencies enabling EBS Snapshot services to launch in new AWS regions.

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2019 - Nov 2020

Berkadia | Midvale, Utah

  • Architected an enterprise-grade micro-service system in the regulation-heavy commercial real estate industry.
  • Managed 2 development teams, owning system architecture and delivery execution.
  • Built property valuations automation using real-time directed acyclic graph (DAG) systems.
  • Taught, mentored, and helped team members grow their careers.

Software Engineer

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

Berkadia | Midvale, Utah

  • Designed and implemented extensions of customer-facing web applications generating over $1M annually.
  • Architected a legacy system rebuild to better adjust to market conditions.
  • Taught and mentored others on high-level math, computer science, and physics.

Software Engineer in Test

Oct 2013 - Oct 2017

Icon Health and Fitness | Logan, Utah

  • Developed testing software including internal web apps, embedded system emulators, Bluetooth sniffers, USB device emulators, 802.11 analysis tools, and Raspberry Pi tools.
  • Built MEAN Stack dynamic distributed systems and Slack bots for automation.
  • Co-managed a team of developers using agile and scrum principles to design, plan, and build software.
  • Developed automated testing systems and frameworks for other automation employees.

Thermonuclear Plasma Physics Research Assistant

Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

Utah State University | Logan, Utah

  • Designed, built, and tested a system for use in the high-energy plasma lab at USU.
  • Designed hardware, purchased components, and assembled the hardware side of the system.
  • Developed software to digitize system output for use in MatLab.
  • Performed analysis of light generated against power output on the scale of nanoseconds.

Sales Associate & Assistant Manager

Apr 2013 - Oct 2013

Vector Marketing | Logan, Utah

  • Sold over $10,000 worth of product in 2 months.
  • Accepted into the Vector Leadership Academy and Presidents Club.
  • Promoted to Assistant Manager 6 weeks on the job.
  • Managed a small team of Sales Reps, interviewed, hired, and trained new employees.

Electronics Technician

Feb 2011 - Aug 2012

Icon Health and Fitness | Logan, Utah

  • Developed automation software that saved thousands of hours of work.
  • Product owner and tester for a WiFi module which sold for over $1.2M.
  • Managed, organized, and supervised 20-30 temp workers for mass testing.
  • Wrote detailed testing reports and tracked overarching data.

Farm Hand

Apr 2007 - Feb 2011

Spackman's Dairy | Richmond, Utah

  • Worked for a dairy farm, responsible for moving pipe and watering fields in summer.
  • Responsible for milking the ~150 head herd 3-6 times a week throughout the year.

Education

B.S., Computer Science

Utah State University | Specialization in Software Development, Minor in Physics

Technical Focus

Distributed Systems Developer Platforms Developer Tooling Infrastructure & Reliability Observability & Logging CI/CD & Release Systems Large-Scale Data Processing Tracing & Metrics API Design

Languages & Technologies

Golang C/C++ Rust TypeScript JavaScript PHP React Redux RxJS GraphQL AWS Linux Docker Android SQL NoSQL

Interests

Professional: Tooling, distributed systems, software development, machine learning, robotics

Personal: Astrophysics, space travel, pyrotechnics, extreme sports, inventing, woodworking, cooking, flying, energy, humanitarian projects