Work Experience

Principal Architect & Engineering Lead — here's the trail that got me here.

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Principal Architect & Engineering Lead

@Strata Company

May 2024 – Present

Engineering lead and principal architect for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Player-coach across architecture, AI development tooling, platform security, and hands-on full-stack build for a 10-person team.

Elite DORA delivery tier10 person team2× SOC 2 Type 2 audits
Leadership

Software Engineering Manager

@Trava

Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

Led a distributed engineering team and shipped product as a player-coach, while standing up the team's first formal support and product-discovery practices.

+20% employee satisfaction+30% team productivity1 day issue resolution time
Engineering

Principal Full Stack Engineer (Head of Engineering)

@La Vette

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023

Built and led the engineering function for a video-dating platform end-to-end — web, mobile, backend, ML, and ops.

30% → 0.5% video playback errors+40% scalability & performance+11% retention & acquisition
Engineering

Senior Solutions Architect (CTO)

@Guaranty Support Inc

Jan 2020 – Jun 2022

Built and led a managed-cloud and migration consulting practice, including the largest insolvent-insurer data transfers in the firm's history.

25 TB+ claim & policy images migrated25M+ records transferred$100K+ ARR in year one

@National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds (NCIGF)

Jul 2017 – Jun 2022 · 5 yr

Promoted from Helpdesk through DevOps to Director over ~5 years.

Support

Technical Support Engineer Intern

@Cisco Meraki

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016

Summer internship in technical support and networking.

Support

IT Intern

@Purdue Research Foundation

Oct 2013 – May 2014

IT support internship.

Support

Technology Intern

@Litchfield Community School District #12

Apr 2012 – Jan 2014

Technology support internship.