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Twenty-plus years of backend work, from telecom platforms to Elixir and Go services at scale. Most recent first.

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Skills

Languages: Elixir, Go, Ruby, SQL, JavaScript, HCL (Terraform)
Frameworks: Phoenix, Rails, React
Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, Auto Scaling), Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Linux
Data and messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch
AI-assisted development: Claude, Greptile, custom agent platforms

Experience

2021 to nowJanuary 2021 to present

Principal Software DeveloperPodium, remote

Built a Cloud Agent platform that implements changes, runs tests, and opens verified pull requests across 350+ repositories (about half are services), cutting task turnaround from days to hours.
Automated large parts of the SDLC with AI: maintenance, code review, and upgrades. Built a small agent platform for documentation and operational supervision of production services.
Re-architected the legacy CRM in 8 months and migrated 700M contacts and 2.8B events with zero downtime. Built the company's shared sharding library.
Led the 8-month migration off the Rails monolith, moving 40+ services with a transition design that let teams cut over quickly and safely.
Drove consistency and maintenance of 70+ older services and 50+ libraries to improve developer efficiency and safety.
Authored shared Elixir libraries (Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and other reusable components).
Member of the architecture group guiding cross-product decisions. Drove ISO and SOC 2 compliance work for the platform.

Elixir, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, AI agents

2016 to 2021November 2016 to January 2021

Principal Software DeveloperOutreach.io, Seattle, WA

Architected and built a configurable bi-directional sync service between Outreach and Salesforce. It is the critical path for onboarding customer data and keeping both systems in sync.
Architected a queue throttling system that limits heavy-usage queues so customer databases are not overloaded.
Improved batch actions, mailings, and error reporting in the main Rails app, and created frameworks for shared code and error handling.
Built Go tooling for the developer environment and a code-generation framework for creating consistent Go microservices.
Served on call for production stability and recovery.

Elixir, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Go, Rails, Terraform, AWS, Datadog, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ

2014 to 2016March 2014 to November 2016

Senior Software DeveloperZumobi, Seattle, WA

Architected a publishing engine that automated mobile content for campaigns for Target, Sears, Zulily, AIG, Prudential and others, with campaigns reaching 10 to 50 million impressions.
Designed a metrics and reporting pipeline with a custom Ruby ETL framework, processing about 20 million metrics per day.
Built backends for the MotorTrend, automobile, and Ski and Snow iOS and Android apps, plus microservices wrapping the Twitter, IBM Watson, and YouTube APIs with quota management.
Designed the AWS infrastructure and Ruby tooling to deploy and scale multiple environments.

Ruby, Rails, AWS (VPC, EC2, Auto Scaling, RDS, CloudWatch), Chef

2013 to 2014September 2013 to March 2014

Senior Software DeveloperHealth123, Seattle, WA

Built the API backend for the new product version and migrated all infrastructure from Heroku to AWS with better backup, recovery, and repeatable deployments.

Ruby, Rails, AWS

2013April to September 2013

Senior Software DeveloperCollabNet, Seattle, WA

Built features for Orchestrate, part of TeamForge, and an installer for flexible deployment of product components, in a Scrum environment.

Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Capistrano

2010 to 2013September 2010 to April 2013

Lead ArchitectTalent Technologies (Talemetry), Seattle, WA

Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Lead Architect within 10 months after the TalentSpring acquisition.
Owned the matching technology of the Talemetry platform and designed solutions for other products on the platform.
Led the DevOps team on release tooling, built the data warehouse for internal and customer reporting, and created an internal authentication framework for service-to-service calls.
Introduced code reviews, technical documentation, and better-fit tooling to scale the process to larger teams.

Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS

2010February to September 2010

Senior Software EngineerTalentSpring, Seattle, WA

Built a distributed resume importer that cut customer pilot start-up from days to hours.
Built a crawler framework covering job boards, the open web, and applicant tracking systems, so a new crawler took hours instead of days. Owned backend processing into Solr and server deployment.

Ruby, MySQL, AWS, Solr

2007 to 2010November 2007 to February 2010

Lead ArchitectMobile Integration Services, Redmond, WA

Built R&D prototypes for AT&T and a test automation platform, and led a team of SDETs.

C++, IDLOS, Ruby, Erlang, Selenium, Cucumber

2005 to 2007February 2005 to November 2007

Senior Software EngineerAll Star Directories, Seattle, WA

Rebuilt the lead delivery system serving 5,000+ customers.
Built a PHP MVC framework that cut project delivery time by 30% and halved the codebase from 100K to 50K lines.
Redesigned budget management for a business with $26M in revenue and rebuilt 10 high-traffic sites in 8 months.

PHP, MySQL

1999 to 20051999 to 2005

Earlier rolesNCS Technologies, Kabira Technologies (Paris), Alstom ESCA, Alstom EMM

Built a high-availability provisioning platform for AT&T Wireless's 8M customers (C++, IDLOS, UML).
Supported telecom projects for AT&T, Orange, and Vodafone as a consultant in Paris, and was promoted to Technical Leader of the Customer Care team.
Built web applications and internal tools for utility software at Alstom.

C++, Java, Perl, PHP, ASP, Oracle

Education

École Supérieure de Technologie Électronique (ESTE), France. B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering, with honors, July 1999. Exchange year in Computer Engineering at Seattle University, 1998 to 1999.