About
Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years in full-stack/backend development, management, and cybersecurity. Experienced in leading engineering teams and advising on federal cybersecurity and AI threat strategies. Passionate about complex problem-solving and continuous learning. Seeking new challenges.
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer, SIRUM January 2024 - October 2024
- Developed full-stack solutions to enable pharmacy operations
- Analyzed and implemented solution for observability of error conditions in an AI driven automated inventory sorting conveyor system
Cyber Security Engineer VI, Millennium Corporation June 2018 - October 2023
- Researched, advised on, and productionized new and emerging cyber security attack vectors.
- Developed and deployed tools and processes supporting realistic threat-emulation engagements across a wide variety of systems under test.
- Participated in working groups at the federal level to categorize and create testing strategies for emerging AI/machine learning oriented threats.
- Actively deployed hardware, software, and hybrid attacks against live targets during hands-on engagements.
Engineering Manager, Yelp Hamburg DE Nov 2015 - March 2018
- Managed 12+ engineers working on Yelp’s business owner products. Managing teams responsible for mobile apps, websites, and APIs.
- Successfully lead cross-team and cross-platform projects involving PMs, engineers, and other managers.
- Built new engineering teams focused on business-critical paths. Collaborated with sales and marketing organizations to launch products supporting new customer segments, specifically multi-location, mid market, and national businesses.
- Projects: a wide variety including data aggregation and visualization, building new advertising products, and creating better marketing experiences.
Software Developer, Yelp Hamburg DE Feb 2014 - Nov 2015
- First transfer to embed with Yelp’s first remote engineering team during its largest corporate acquisition. Selected to champion engineering excellence and best practices, along with helping to grow the team.*
- Worked closely with Hamburg and San Francisco organizations to facilitate better communication and improve collaboration between the teams. Specifically coaching peers on written communication, refactoring, code review, and engineering process.
- Projects: Simpler business categorization UI, Data aggregation services (dynamically responding to signals based on UGC), refactoring “new business” classification, refactoring local ads middleware and frontends (Yelp’s core product)
Software Developer, Yelp San Francisco 2012 - Feb 2014
- Key engineer working on Yelp’s consumer web products. Developed python backends and apis, some javascript and web frontend
- Worked closely with designers and product managers
- Projects: Refactoring Business Details page, Ingestion of Menus data from multiple partners, experiments involving the Write a Review process
Lead Developer, Remark Media (formerly HSW International) 2008 - 2012
- Joined as the 6th engineer, progressed into leadership and helped grow the team to ~30 engineers
- Mentoring new hires, planning and executing large projects and maintenance of legacy systems
- Technologies: PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, Memcached, Zend Framework, AWS, Less, Backbone
Education
Georgia College & State University 2002 - 2006
- Undergraduate studies in Biology and Philosophy, with a strong emphasis on logic, metaphysics, and complex biological systems.