Resume
Experience
2023-present | Instrumental - Staff Software Engineer
- Building the webapp backend for an enterprise data science and machine learning platform
- Interim Team Lead/Manager for the webapp backend team
- Tech lead for interdisciplinary engineering projects
- Improving maintainability and velocity by redesigning core schemas and abstractions
- Planned and executed migration from a legacy interface description language to Protobuf
- Onboarding new engineers and maintaining training documentation
- Scaling by strategically moving backend components to AWS lambda
- Designed and built tool for bulk importing/exporting customer data
2021-2023 | Instrumental - Senior Software Engineer
- Designed a pipeline that fetches/processes/summarizes millions of points of data per minute
- Made a lambda-based s3 virus scanning solution optimized using lambda extensions
- Redesigned core abstractions to remove complex joins and improve application performance
- Built core abstractions and testing scaffolds to improve engineering velocity
- Implemented generic wrappers for paginating database queries using Akka Streams and JOOQ
- Improved security with automated dependency checks/update PRs
2019-2020 | Strateos (formerly Transcriptic) - Software Engineer L4
- Architected and built a workflow engine for factory automation that manages parallel execution across hundreds of robots
- Integrated robots into an automated medicinal chemistry platform by writing control software and ETL pipelines
- Instrumented core services with event monitoring for improved performance and root cause analysis
- Prototyped a microservice-based rearchitecture of backend components using Play Framework
- Migrated build and deployment to Gradle, Jib, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Wrote a library for automatic compile-time deserializer derivation
2017-2019 | Transcriptic - Scientific Software Engineer
- Designed and developed an "SDK" for scientific workflows that:
- Provides a python framework for specifying scientific intent
- Compiles declarative workflows into robot instructions
- Validates scientific integrity against available devices
- Built scheduling and constraint modeling tools to reduce experiment execution time
- Maintained Autoprotocol, an open standard for specifying scientific workflows
- Wrote drivers for laboratory instruments
- Gathered external customer requirements, refined and delegated tasks, and coordinated acceptance tests
- Maintained CI, deployment, and network infrastructure
2016-2017 | Transcriptic - Research Associate
- Engineered data analysis pipelines for monitoring hardware performance
- Wrote scripts to automate laboratory instruments
- Prepared standard operating procedures for the operations team
2014-2015 | UC Merced - Research Assistant
- Developed climate and ecological simulation models
- Analyzed geospatial species range and climate data
- Characterized regional morphological variation in Pinus spp.
Skills
- languages: Scala • Bash/Fish • Python • Rust • Lua • Vimscript
- technologies: PostgreSQL • Elasticsearch • Play Framework • Akka • JOOQ • Flask • RabbitMQ • Shapeless • Datadog • CircleCi
- aws: ECS • EC2 • Lambda • S3 • SQS
- build: SBT • Gradle • Jib
- deployment: Docker • Terraform • Jenkins • Ansible • Heroku • Kubernetes • VirtualBox
Education
2010-2014 | Willamette University - B.A. Biology (chemistry minor)
- Hybridization in Camassia: a synthetic approach using geometric morphometrics, microsatellites, and morphology
Publications
- PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142369: ecological simulation models
- PLoS ONE 9(5): e96796: plant physical defense traits