Executive Summary
Experienced engineer with 10+ years designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native and IoT platforms. Proven track record owning critical systems, leading cross-team technical initiatives, and improving reliability, security, and developer productivity. Deep expertise in Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, with strong product intuition.
Work Experience
Senior Cloud Engineer
PwC / Kunai
Jul 2024 – Present
Remote
- Embedded with Capital One’s Velocity Black platform, owning data security and privacy pipelines
- Designed real-time detection and mitigation systems for highly sensitive human data under strict latency constraints using OCR
- Led performance and reliability testing strategy for distributed services
- Improved platform security posture via automated secret rotation and hardened workflows
Core Services Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Pepper
Apr 2022 – May 2024
Remote
- Technical lead for core IoT ingestion and API platform used by customer-facing mobile applications
- Owned backend architecture in Go, Node.js, and Protocol Buffers
- Led migration from AWS Lambda to Kubernetes and Knative, improving scalability and cost efficiency
- Established internal developer platform standards via Backstage
- Acted as primary technical partner for product and mobile teams
Director of Product / Senior IoT Integrations Engineer
HSB Meshify
Aug 2018 – Apr 2022
Remote
- Owned end-to-end IoT product strategy spanning hardware, firmware, cloud services, and analytics
- Designed and launched LTE-M and NB-IoT hardware products
- Led global infrastructure migration to Kubernetes
- Reduced platform downtime from approximately 24 hours per month to under 30 minutes per month
- Balanced technical architecture with customer and business constraints
Product Manager / Software and Electrical Engineer
Henry Pump
Nov 2014 – Aug 2018
Remote
- Designed control systems and analytics platforms for industrial production environments
- Delivered full-stack systems across embedded, backend, and UI layers
Field Service Engineer
Rockwell Automation
Apr 2013 – Nov 2014
Dallas, TX
- Delivered PLC, HMI, and VFD solutions for industrial automation and water filtration systems
- Executed legacy system migrations and on-site commissioning
Electrical Engineer
Barry-Wehmiller Design Group
Jun 2011 – Apr 2013
St. Louis, MO
- Led manufacturing control projects, including virtualization of production servers for large-scale facilities
Skills & Domains
Languages:Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL
Cloud and Infrastructure:AWS, Kubernetes, Knative, Terraform, Serverless
Architecture:Distributed systems, event-driven platforms, IoT
Security:Data privacy, secrets management, secure data pipelines
Controls and Physical Systems:PLC and industrial automation systems; HMI and SCADA design and implementation; real-time and safety-critical system constraints; hardware–software integration, field reliability, and remote monitoring
Leadership:Technical strategy, cross-team collaboration, mentorship
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia
May 2011