Twenty-five years building high-performing teams, scalable systems, and the data infrastructure underneath them. Currently at K1X. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I started as a software engineer and spent a decade as an architect before moving into leadership. That order matters to how I lead. I have built the systems I now ask other people to build, which makes me hard to bluff and, I hope, easy to work for.
Most of my work sits where teams meet infrastructure. Turning an operations group into an SRE team and cutting on-call events by 88 percent. Taking an AWS bill from $160K to $35K a month while performance improved rather than degraded. Designing ETL pipelines that carried 4.5 billion requests a day. The through line is not the technology, it is building places where engineers can do good work and see the effect of it.
I hike, I tinker, and I keep a homelab that exists mostly so I have something to break on weekends. The side projects give me away. The current one is a terminal UI for running coding agents in autonomous loops, named for a NASA mathematician who retrained herself as a programmer when the machines came for her first job.
Built K1X's data platform from the ground up: an end-to-end ETL system feeding a data lake that serves product analytics, the Extraction Accuracy report, and the data science and machine learning teams doing exploratory work and training set identification.
Led the engineering organization. Cut AWS spend 78 percent, from $160K to $35K monthly, while improving p95 latency more than 50 percent and reducing user-facing exceptions from 160,000 an hour to under 4,000. Established SLOs and SLIs, and built the data infrastructure behind reporting and analytics.
Turned an operational team into an SRE organization. Automation work reduced on-call events 88 percent, from more than 1,000 a month to 30, saving over $500K a year and giving the team its evenings back.
Introduced Agile and DevOps practices company-wide and restructured teams to cut cross-team dependencies, moving groups toward self-organization and shorter delivery cycles.
Designed the architecture behind databases, interfaces, and web services, and built the reporting ETL pipeline that processed more than 4.5 billion requests a day.
Software Architect at 6fusion. Technical Team Lead at iContact. Software Architect at Surgical Review Corporation. Senior Software Engineer at ChannelAdvisor. Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer, at GlaxoSmithKline. Web Developer at TotalVid.
Not all who wander are lost. However, some of us do leave a map.