Set technical direction for Google Cloud Platform-powered cloud development
environment, enabling over 200 software engineers to run a scaled-down
version of BigCommerce’s 40+ service platform.
Mentored teammates and provided expert guidance in infrastructure, cloud
engineering, and developer tooling.
Drove resolution for inter-service and infrastructure issues in support
of software engineering.
Launched BigCommerce’s next-gen service mesh proxy, Envoy, in the cloud
development environment.
Reduced cost of cloud development environment by 35% ($200,000 per year).
Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure management strategy using
Terraform, Terragrunt, and Puppet.
Built fully Terraformed, secure, CI-deployable Kubernetes cluster in just
three days to support BigCommerce’s internal AI development playground.
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
AerisWeather
Jan 2019
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May 2022
Led AerisWeather’s cloud infrastructure & DevOps strategy on AWS.
Spearheaded AWS cost savings project, resulting in more than $100,000
in savings per year.
Instituted standard CI pipelines, Terraform modules, and Ansible
provisioning to provide secure, cost-effective, highly available
deployments
by default, saving weeks in setup and maintenance effort per service.
Built webhooks product using Python, AWS Lambda, SQS, and S3, which grew
to over $200,000 annual recurring revenue in 2021.
Revamped personal weather station data platform to improve reliability,
enabling ingestion of more than ten million data points per hour.
Mentored software engineers in infrastructure and cloud engineering.
Served as primary on-call for AerisWeather’s flagship API,
data ingestion platform, databases, and supporting infrastructure.
Site Reliability Engineer
NovuHealth, Inc.
Mar 2018
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Nov 2018
Designed and implemented infrastructure functionality for Novu’s
AWS-hosted platform using Chef and CloudFormation.
Revamped SFTP file delivery service, increasing performance by
more than 2x.
Containerized and deployed MicroStrategy software to Amazon ECS.
Served as tier 3 on-call support for the Novu infrastructure.
Senior Software Engineer
Calix, Inc.
Nov 2016
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Mar 2018
Designed and implemented automated Python tests running 300+ tests
per day on 10+ models of Calix residential network hardware.
Unified test codebases by implementing a driver pattern, resulting in
accelerated feature development, improved reliability, lowered maintenance
cost, and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities.
Architected and implemented ONT image signing process to enable secure updates
for residential network hardware in the field.
Mentored junior developer in software engineering and testing best practices.
Infrastructure Engineer
Zipnosis, Inc.
May 2015
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Nov 2016
IT Engineer
General Mills, Inc.
Dec 2011
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May 2015
Linux Systems Administrator
University of Minnesota
May 2008
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Dec 2011
Publications
University of Minnesota
D. F. Kune, J. Koelndorfer, N. Hopper, Y. Kim, “Location Leaks on the GSM Air
Interface”, NDSS Symposium, 2012.