Software engineer passionate about learning and helping others.
Visit my GitHub for open source contributions and personal projects.
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Professional Experience
Software Engineer, Contractor – Sep 2023-Present
Cisco
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Write AWS serverless backends with Python and DocumentDB
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Utilize Docker containers for development tasks and reproducible CI
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Develop and support web application security scanning platform
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Experimented with and proposed a change to MongoDB usage in pytest test suite, reducing length of run from 30 minutes to 10 minutes
Software Engineer, Contractor – May 2023-Aug 2023
Canold
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Perform ETL tasks with Python and bespoke tooling
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Create and manage Django ORM models
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Use MySQL CLI to explore and validate data
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Use Kubernetes containers to manage development and production environments
Software Engineer – Jan 2022-Mar 2023
Bigleaf Networks
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Contribute to new FastAPI + Postgres web dashboard
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Refactor legacy embedded and API Python code
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Create development VMs for testing Wireguard fork, squash Wireguard fork bugs
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Evangelize for Rust adoption with PoC, presentation, and CLI tool
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Rewrite tests to take advantage of Pytest features and improve idempotency
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Set up CI for code quality using Github Actions
Site Reliability Engineer, Contractor – Oct 2021-Jan 2022
JP Morgan Chase
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Use monitoring tools, Linux skills, and cross-team communication to keep jobs running smoothly
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Look for opportunities to automate support tasks
Developer – Oct 2019-Aug 2021
Grathwol Automation/Astec Industries
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Create and maintain telematics solutions from embedded Linux to HTML frontend
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Rewrite telematics daemon to feature a clean, pluggable design using metaprogramming and OOP to hasten development and reduce boilerplate
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Create and maintain Digital Ocean infrastructure, making extensive use of Ubuntu and FOSS tools and technologies
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Write detailed documentation and train other programmers and teams in the design and layout of Python Flask backends
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Assist both teammates and customers with troubleshooting tasks across all stacks
QA and Automation for art of rally – Apr 2019-Sep 2020
Funselektor Labs
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Write and maintain a Python tool to automate mundane Steam leaderboard maintenance tasks, previously performed manually by lead developer
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Assist with both gameplay ideas and bug squashing
Selected Open Source Project
Zola (Static Site Generator, Rust) – Apr 2023-Present
Selected Skills
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Python:pytest, hypothesis, multiprocessing, async, pdb, tkinter, webscraping
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Rust:egui, game engine development
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Unix:Linux, virtualization/containerization, OpenBSD, networking
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Frontend:Typescript+HTML5+CSS, Vue.js, web sockets, static site generation
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Backend:Flask/FastAPI/Django/Bespoke/Actix Web, nginx/httpd
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Embedded:Buildroot Linux, U-Boot, SocketCAN, J1939
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Database:Postgres/MySQL/SQLite, MongoDB, ORM, design
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VCS & CI/CD:Git+Github+Github Actions, Jenkins
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IaC:Ansible, Terraform
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AWS:Lambda, Cloudfront, CDK, API Gateway
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C:Essentials + Windows console and graphical applications
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ASM:x86-64, reversing and exploiting MSP430 assembly
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Java:Essentials + JUnit