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.
Interests
Professional: Tooling, distributed systems, software development, machine learning, robotics
Personal: Astrophysics, space travel, pyrotechnics, extreme sports, inventing, woodworking, cooking, flying, energy, humanitarian projects