Experience

01Current work

1. Apr 2026–present

   Forward Deployed Engineer

   RenderATL & Atlanta Tech Week · contract · Atlanta

   I joined as the only technical revenue hire for a 10,000-attendee conference business and worked across sales, marketing, and engineering.

   • Closed $224,500 across 11 accounts in 15 weeks while building the systems behind sponsor delivery and the attendee experience.
   • Built a six-application platform spanning sponsor operations, analytics, authenticated streaming, session RSVP, annotation, people operations, and gamification.
   • Shipped a governed sales follow-up agent, an Airtable-to-Postgres migration with reconciliation gates, and RenderATL Rush, a browser game that drove $7,012.50 in attributed ticket revenue.

   Read the RenderATL case study →

2. Oct 2025–present

   Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

   /dev/color · postsecondary AI initiative · contract · remote

   I work with foundation representatives, university researchers, institutional teams, and students to turn higher-education requirements into working prototypes and delivery plans.

   • Led a live Claude Design sprint with Purdue Global stakeholders, turning their walkthrough into working interface changes in under an hour.
   • Built a governed natural-language-to-SQL layer with server-side FERPA exclusions, fail-closed local inference, and audit-ready reporting.
   • Produced prototypes, architecture diagrams, documentation, and research findings for institutional stakeholders.

   Read the Purdue Global / STEPs case study →

02Staff and senior engineering

1. Nov 2025–Jul 2026

   Senior Software Engineer, Interop Platform

   Zocdoc · remote

   Built healthcare interoperability services across REST, GraphQL, FHIR, and SOAP/XML partners. I designed the first phase of an extensible insurance-mapping service, led the frontend workstream for a React triage tool, and wrote Claude Code guardrails adopted across the Interop organization.

2. Nov 2022–Oct 2025

   Staff Software Engineer

   Meroxa · promoted from Senior in Apr 2024 · remote

   Primary engineer on the production Go connector that streamed U.S. and allied sensor data into the Space Force Unified Data Library under an Air Force Research Laboratory Phase II award.

   • Worked across pre-sales discovery, integration planning, stakeholder presentations, implementation, and post-sale delivery.
   • Built reference connector patterns for federal streaming systems, including maritime AIS, Oracle, S3, tactical data links, and an HL7-to-FHIR processor completed at Staff level.
   • Led PushToProd.ai, an agent-driven deployment platform with typed model schemas, lifecycle validation, retries, and structured observability.

   Read the Unified Data Library case study →

3. Apr 2020–Aug 2022

   Senior Software Engineer

   New Relic · remote

   Built New Relic's open-source Python S3 log-ingestion Lambda as a streaming system under fixed disk, memory, payload, and runtime limits. It processed a 350 MB compressed input with several million lines without loading the file into memory and shipped through three distribution channels.

   • Presented the architecture and live demo at AWS re:Invent 2020.
   • Helped redesign Logs 2.0, launched Saved Views, and wrote the organization's React Hooks migration guide.
   • Introduced end-to-end coverage and a Bug Bash process that reduced UI bugs 40%.
4. Jul 2013–Apr 2020

   Software Engineer and Technical Lead

   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, California

   Built and led software for climate-science collaboration and nuclear nonproliferation. I replaced an 8,000-line Bash release process with Python and Ansible automation, cutting build time and deployment complexity 90%, and led the ESGF installation team across a distributed international project.

   • Established the web-stack foundation for the Nuclear Suppliers Group Information Sharing System, used by 48 participating governments.
   • Named recipient of the NNSA Recognition of Excellence in Support of the Nonproliferation Mission.
   • Held a Department of Energy security clearance during the role.

03Independent and fractional work