EXPERIENCE
WORK HISTORY
@ Bestow
Senior Software Engineer
February 2025 - Present
• Build and maintain distributed Go gRPC microservices using event sourcing and CQRS patterns for policy and billing management with distributed tracing
• Developed a carrier-agnostic actor creation and relationship management Go gRPC microservice enabling seamless carrier onboarding to the platform
• Integrated OAuth 2.0 and role-based access controls (RBAC) for service-to-service authentication and authorization, enforcing least privilege access
• Champion agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development practices across engineering teams as part of the CTO's AI Engineering Guild, building custom sub-agents, commands, and agent skills that drove Claude Code adoption to 90%+ of engineers and increased team productivity by 30%+
Technologies: Go, gRPC, Stripe API, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, JWT, OAuth 2.0, Linux, GCP (Cloud Storage, GKE, Pub/Sub, KMS), SOPS, Elasticsearch, Pulumi, CircleCI, New Relic
@ Atlassian
Software Engineer, Jira Align
March 2023 - February 2025
• Led backend migration from legacy Classic ASP to modern C# APIs
• Designed and built the OKR Hub using TypeScript and React, improving user experience and accessibility
• Optimized SQL performance through query pattern improvements and indexing
Technologies: C#, React, TypeScript, REST APIs, Microsoft SQL Server, JWT, Bitbucket Pipelines
Software Engineer, Bitbucket Cloud Data Privacy and Security
May 2021 - May 2023
• Reduced security alerts by 30% by refactoring authentication within a Go auth service for Git over HTTPS and Bitbucket Cloud API to require App Tokens as the baseline authentication method, replacing Basic Authentication and eliminating vulnerabilities
• Built a schema-agnostic Audit Log service using event-driven architecture and Go concurrency primitives, processing 200+ event types at 100 msgs/sec via AWS SQS/SNS, directly enabling enterprise customer adoption by resolving the top compliance blocker
• Orchestrated large-scale Python 3 migration for Bitbucket Cloud, systematically fixing over 10,000 failing tests, reconciling hundreds of package incompatibilities, and validating comprehensive integration and E2E test coverage in 6 months with zero production incidents
Technologies: Python, Django, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, JWT, Docker, Linux, AWS (S3, SQS, SNS, EC2), Celery, Bitbucket Pipelines
Data Engineer, Data Analytics Engineering
May 2019 - May 2021
• Designed and maintained large-scale data pipelines processing 40+ TB using Databricks Spark clusters
• Created reusable Python libraries for backfill operations and data quality validation, improving team productivity and pipeline reliability
Technologies: Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, Spark SQL, Apache Airflow, AWS, AWS Kinesis, Databricks
@ Credit Sesame
Senior Data Analyst → Data Engineer
Transitioned from Senior Data Analyst to Data Engineer, taking ownership of team's data pipelines
June 2018 - May 2019
• Built ML models to optimize TV marketing spend and maximize user LTV
• Increased new user revenue 20% by building gradient boosted model to predict credit card conversions and A/B testing high-impact features
• Independently migrated critical data pipelines to Apache Airflow on AWS, reducing data refresh time from 3 days to 4 hours
Technologies: Python, Machine Learning, Apache Airflow, AWS EC2
@ loanDepot
Data Scientist, Risk Modeling
Jan 2015 - June 2018
• Reduced fraud by 50% by building a fraud detection model
• Developed pricing and risk models for personal loan products
• Created Python libraries and CLI tools that significantly improved loan funding and servicing efficiency
Technologies: Python, SQL Server, Risk Modeling
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Go, Python, JavaScript
FRAMEWORKS
Go http/net, Django, React
APIS
HTTP/REST, gRPC, Protobuf
SECURITY
JWT, OAuth 2.0, Auth0, SOPS
CLOUD
AWS: EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, S3, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, MSK
GCP: Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, KMS
DATA STORAGE
PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION
Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Docker, Docker Compose, Linux
OBSERVABILITY
New Relic, Splunk, Sentry
CI/CD
CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions
PLATFORM TOOLING
incident.io, LaunchDarkly, SonarQube, OpsGenie
BIG DATA
Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Databricks, Apache Airflow, AWS Kinesis/Apache Kafka, AWS EMR, AWS Redshift
EDUCATION
@ University of North Texas
Master of Science in Economics
Specialization in Econometrics
@ University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Minor in Mathematics