DevOps engineer with a staff software engineering background in large build systems, infrastructure automation, web proxies, policy enforcement, and developer tools. I professionally make computers schizophrenic at scale. I have an obsession with service uptime, and I will TDD with Rust, Swift, and Python until the day I die.
Selected experience
Stealth Mode Startup · DevOps Engineer
2026 TO PRESENT
Current work is confidential while the company is in stealth.
System Ready · Founder
2025 TO PRESENT
- Ship apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad across systems, productivity, and creative work.
- Publish developer tools including vagrant-provider-avf.
- Keep user data local and ask only for the access each app needs.
Nutanix · Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
2020 TO AUGUST 2025
- Ran infrastructure supporting more than 2,000 hosts across 35 clusters.
- Used monitoring and automation to cut major incidents from two or three per month to one or two per year.
- Set up Jenkins on Nomad and Consul with automatic provisioning and failover in under a minute.
- Built a containerized Python build system with more than 90% cache reuse. A typical build dropped from about three hours to 45 minutes.
Nutanix · Senior Software Engineer
2014 TO 2020 · ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY, OPERATIONS, PRISM GATEWAY
- Grew the build system from 150 to 600 builders and more than 1,500 hosts.
- Wrote Python services that reclaimed unused hardware and saved about $2 million per year.
- Raised unit test coverage from zero to 85% on a major API platform and cut production defects by about 60%.
- Rewrote APIs and added concurrency and security controls for distributed systems.
Nominum · Staff Software Engineer / Senior QA Engineer
2010 TO 2014
- Worked on the web proxy and rebuilt its policy enforcement engine with lock-free concurrency.
- Worked on distributed DNS caching and telemetry.
- Built provisioning systems with Java, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL.
- Built automated test tools and helped QA engineers move into software engineering roles.
VMware · Software Quality Engineer, Hypervisor
EARLIER EXPERIENCE
- Validated core hypervisor behavior across compute, storage, virtualization, scale, and failure scenarios.
- Built automation and reporting systems for test coverage, defects, and release readiness.
Technical range
LanguagesSwift, Python, Java, C++, Rust, Bash
InfrastructureNomad, Consul, Kubernetes, Docker, Vault, Nginx
Delivery systemsJenkins, GitHub, Gerrit, sccache, distcc
Data & observabilityRedis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, SQLite, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
Education and patents
Oregon State University · Computer Science Information Systems
- Co-inventor: multi-cloud migration system for disk and metadata translation.
- Co-inventor: multi-cloud orchestration and volume-group synchronization.