Experience
Convoy & Flexport (via acquisition) | Senior Software Engineer on Production & Development Experience
2022 - 2023
- Led three-person team to develop new microservice test & development environment using Kubernetes
- Worked with third-party vendors to determine Convoy needed to build instead of buy
- Interviewed customers to collect requirements and designed system architecture
- Reduced E2E test times by 11 minutes (~92%)
- Developed and executed standard procedure for Convoy's first Kubernetes and Istio upgrades
- Upgrade unlocked 33% reduction in AWS data transfer spend
- Standardized company-wide Docker image building to be SOC2 compliant and easy for all developers
- Led technical side of internal wiki migration; wrote data scraper/exporter when vendor tool did not work
Convoy | Software Engineer on Development & Test Experience
2020 - 2022
- Improved E2E test times by four minutes (25%) by dockerizing test runner
- Worked with vendor to establish service ownership and health registry for ~200 microservices
- Owned operational metrics: kept ~180 of 200 services up-to-date and drove down # of on-call pages
- Led four-person team to eliminate all x86 developer dependencies to prepare for Apple Silicon Macs
Amazon Web Services | Software Development Intern
Summer 2019
- Implemented artifact caching for continuous integration system
- Saved thousands of developer & compute hours per week
Art of Problem Solving | Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2018
- Designed web-based interactive math problems for students using React & Node
VandyHacks IV & V | President
2016 - 2020
- Organized three hackathons with annual $80K budget and 500+ attendees
Education
Vanderbilt University | B.S. in Computer Science; Minor in World Politics
2020
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy | Received Diploma
2016
Skills
- Strongest languages: Javascript, Typescript, and Golang
- Proficient languages: Rust, Java, C#, Python, and R
- Web technologies: GraphQL, TypeORM, React, SvelteJS, and CSS
- DevOps technologies: Kubernetes, Istio, AWS, and Terraform
- Tools: Docker, Git, SQL, Kafka, and Bash
Projects
Seattle Surf Incubator: AI Hackathon
Mar 2023
- Created browser extension that uses GPT-4 API to dynamically change website UI based on user prompt
HackIllinois: Rust Hot Module Reloading
Feb 2019
Firefox Address Bar Expression Parser
2019 - Present