Staff Software Engineer
Northwind Systems
Lead the developer-platform team (8 engineers). Cut median deploy time from 22 min to 90 sec and drove a 40% reduction in production incidents by standardizing observability and rollouts.
Staff engineer focused on distributed systems and developer platforms. I've spent the last eight years making large systems fast, observable, and pleasant to build on — most recently leading the platform team behind a product serving 40M monthly users.
Northwind Systems
Lead the developer-platform team (8 engineers). Cut median deploy time from 22 min to 90 sec and drove a 40% reduction in production incidents by standardizing observability and rollouts.
Lumen Data
Built the real-time ingestion pipeline handling 2.5B events/day. Designed the sharding strategy that let the system scale 10x without downtime.
Brightloop
Shipped the first version of the analytics API and the SDKs around it. Owned reliability for a service with a 99.98% uptime SLA.
Platforms are products — their users just happen to be engineers.
Open-source library for transparent database sharding in Go. 3.1k stars; used in production by several mid-size startups.
A tiny deploy-health watchdog that auto-rolls-back on error-rate spikes. Born as an internal tool, open-sourced after it saved three incidents.
University of Washington
Platforms, reliability, and developer experience — email works best.
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