About
Software Engineer with years
of experience building complex web and desktop user
application, as well as 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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Senior Software Engineer
2024 - Present
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Redmond, WA
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Integrated frontend and backend connection
for Microsoft Fabric's OneLake experience in
Power BI. Required developing and debugging
across multiple code repos, with a focus on
creating a pleasant user experience
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Architected key components of the Dax Query
View code editor in Power BI. Involved cross
team coordination to adapt the code to
desktop and web experiences for a seamless
experience for ~100k MAU
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Fostered growth minded team culture by
running meetings related to, building
resources for and collaboratively creating
best practices for incident management,
product reliability, and bug triage. As well
as running a cross team weekly learning
series
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Created Early in Career employee resource
group in Azure Data to facilitate networking
and learning experiences for new employees
Microsoft
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Software Engineer II
2021 - 2024
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Redmond, WA
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Collaborated with data scientists to build
machine learning powered Azure services with
developer tool integrations serving millions
of requests daily within a hundred
milliseconds
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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
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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
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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
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Upgraded and scaled an inference service and
Azure CLI integration from dozens of daily
requests to hundreds of thousands
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Built out Visual Studio search inference
services in several weeks by leveraging
previous work modularizing services and code
sharing across the team
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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
Other Experience
Saber Guild
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Performer
2021 - Present
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Seattle, WA
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Joined not-for-profit, Lucasfilm-recognized
Star Wars costuming group that specializes
in choreographed lightsaber shows to raise
funds for charity
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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
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Created club to promote, support, and create
open source software among college students
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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
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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
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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
TypeScript • 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