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.
I make large systems fast, observable, and a joy to build on.
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.
University of Washington
Sep 2011 — Jun 2015
Open-source library for transparent database sharding in Go. 3.1k stars; used in production by several mid-size startups.
View project →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.