Journey

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Chainguard Link to heading

Engineering Manager Link to heading

I currently work at Chainguard as an engineering manager where we build and publish secure container images and squash CVEs using Wolfi.

Maintainer of the open-source, Go project Telegraf. Engaged and assisted customers, reviewed community pull requests and issues, and produced meaningful enhances and bug fixes to promote the health of the project.

Wrote and maintained influxctl, CLI tooling to manage InfluxDB v3 Clustered and Dedicated instances.

Managed both the team responsible for Telegraf and a contracting agency’s tasks, headcount, and priorities used for other products.

Also maintained the InfluxDB Client libraries written in Go, Python, and JavaScript. These libraries provide streamlined methods of sending huge amounts of data into InfluxDB, the open-source time series database.

Canonical Link to heading

Senior Software Engineer Link to heading

Lead the production of Ubuntu cloud images across worldwide major cloud vendors. Specifically, responsible for all engineering interaction and deliverables with Google Cloud including Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Anthos.

Engineering Manager & QA Engineer Link to heading

Led and grew the worldwide remote team delivering Ubuntu Server, the number one cloud operating system

Implemented automated CI and merge review system, setup daily software builds, and wrote integration test framework and test cases for software using containers and cloud deployments

Georgia Institute of Technology Link to heading

Masters in Computer Science Link to heading

Completed my Masters in Computer Science in Computer Science. Graduated with a 3.90/4.00.

Coursework included in Artificial Intelligence included:

Knowledge-Based AI: Cognitive Systems
Machine Learning
Machine Learning for Trading
Big Data for Health Informatics
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics
Intro to Health Informatics

HPE Link to heading

Senior Engineer Link to heading

Enhanced product security and reduced duplicate efforts across the company, through the development of HP’s own Debian-derivative operating system

Software Engineer Link to heading

Initiated performance characterization testing methodology and qualified the latest I/O technologies to ensure performance across HP’s next-generation mission-critical and enterprise servers

Conceived automated smoke, integration, and scale tests to run against new product API to reduce development delays and meet quality goals

Colorado State university Link to heading

Bachelors of Arts and Sciences Link to heading

Received my in Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Economics and Applied Computing Technology. Graduated with a 3.55/4.00.