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Name
I'm a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in software development and technical leadership.
I'm a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in software development and technical leadership. I have extensive experience with the both product and software development lifecycles: from ideation, architecture, and design to development, testing, deployment, performance, and security.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Ruby
Technologies:
- TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Node.js, Next.js)
- Python (PyTorch, LangChain, FastAPI)
- Ruby/Ruby on Rails
- AI/ML (RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, classifiers, nearest-neighbor, etc)
- SQL/PostgreSQL
Architecture and System Design:
- API design (REST and GraphQL)
- Monolith and micro-service architectures
- Distributed systems built with Docker and Kubernetes
- Domain-driven design
- CI/CD
Leadership:
- Building high performance cultures by emphasizing ownership and accountability
- Leading and managing distributed engineering teams
- Technical and cross-functional leadership
- Agile project management
Personal:
- High sense of ownership and and very self-motivated
- Growth mindset: never stop learning
- Commitment to building business, domain, and product expertise
- Excellent writing (both technical and non-technical)
- Planning (everything, not just projects!)
- Strong interpersonal communication and relationship-building, even in remote teams
When not traversing the stack, I am:
- an insatiable reader (news, engineering books/blogs, fiction)
- an occasional writer
- an avid consumer of physical media (books, magazines, vinyl records, CDs)
- a long-suffering Seattle sports fan (#GoHawks, #GoMs, #EBFG)
- a social gamer (just the occasional Magic: The Gathering draft with friends these days)
- a mediocre photographer
- a fair-weather cyclist
Find me here.