About
Software Engineer with 3 years of experience building enterprise scalable developer services for machine
learning inference and training. Background in starting and running technical communities and open
source projects. With a goal to explore and leverage technologies to make genuine impact on people's
lives.
Education
University of Florida
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Computer Engineering
Bachelor's Degree
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Entrepreneurship Minor
Work Experience
Microsoft
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Software Engineer II
2021 - Present
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Redmond, WA
- Collaborated with data scientists to build machine learning powered Azure services with
developer tool integrations serving millions of requests daily within a hundred
milliseconds
- Upgraded internal platform and partner services to use Open Telemetry and comply with
all privacy requirements, enabling the team to have consistent and safe access to data and insight to service operations
- Focused on improving our teams processes and infrastructure such as established creating
runbooks to share knowledge at critical moments, investigated build and release system
improvements, and streamlined process to improve team efficacy
- Lead Early in Career employee resource group to onboard hundreds of new hires and
provide dozens of hours of interviews and discussions for recent hires to learn from
Microsoft
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Software Engineer I
2019 - 2021
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Redmond, WA
- Upgraded and scaled an inference service and Azure CLI integration from dozens of daily
requests to hundreds of thousands
- Built out Visual Studio search inference services in several weeks by leveraging
previous work modularizing services and code sharing across the team
- Mentored dozens of new hires and college students as well as spent several months
growing the skills of a service reliability engineer new to the field
Microsoft
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Software Intern
- Created a machine learning training pipeline to analyze Visual Studio telemetry to
recommend Azure services and tutorials
- Built reusable nodes for other training pipelines to connect to internal database
Other Experience
Saber Guild
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Performer
2021 - Present
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Seattle, WA
- Joined not-for-profit, Lucasfilm-recognized Star Wars costuming group that specializes
in choreographed lightsaber shows to raise funds for charity
- Regularly rehearsed, practiced improv and stage fighting, and written and performed
scripts
Open Source Club
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Founder
2016 - 2019
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Gainesville, FL
- Created club to promote, support, and create open source software among college students
- Established structure and culture that allowed the club to continue and grow till the
present
Eagle Scout Project
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Scout
2011 - 2012
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Palm Bay, FL
- Planned, organized, and installed a drip irrigation system for the Lockmar Community
Garden, enabling residents to have more precise control of gardens and lowered
participation barriers
- Oversaw more than forty people over the course of hundreds of work-hours
Side Projects
URShort
A blazingly fast and amazingly simple URL shortener designed for self-hosters • Rust, Docker
The Force
A Star Wars themed programming language. All keywords are made up of quotes from the movies and
it is fully armed and operational • Rust
Skills
C# • ASP.NET • Rust • Python • Linux • Docker • Visual Studio • Visual Studio Code • Azure • App Services
• Storage • Key Vault • Redis • Batch • Data Factory •
Project management • Leadership
Interests
Open source software • Self hosting • Community building • Customer feedback • Mentoring • Process
improvements