A little about me.
Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years building secure, scalable products across cybersecurity, identity, and SaaS. I care deeply about system design, engineering culture, and shipping things that actually matter. When I'm not at the keyboard I'm probably on a bike.
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
- Architected Managed Learning Plans — the platform's most critical system, serving hundreds of thousands of learners, accelerating partner sales
- Shipped various multi-tenant tooling that directly contributed to a 5× increase in sales over 2 years
- Built a security-first email insertion system across M365 and GWS, with monitors tracking queue and worker health
- Prioritize observability from day one: own Datadog monitor for the team, actively track usage metrics for every major feature, and lead incident response and postmortems
- Mentor engineers through impromptu bug triage sessions, PR reviews, and planning
Team Lead – Identity Access Management
- Led engineering team delivering a greenfield authentication service on the Okta platform
- Partnered with architecture to navigate rapidly shifting requirements and translate them into executable engineering work
- Established cross-timezone scrum processes to improve alignment between US and international teams
Team Lead – Senior Software Engineer, IAM
- Led and grew a team of engineers across skill levels, owning hiring, onboarding, and technical mentorship
- Delivered a multi-quarter SSO federation project on time — coordinating across engineering, product, and major enterprise clients
- Drove continuous process improvements that measurably increased team delivery velocity
- Represented engineering in client-facing technical discussions, shaping feature design to meet real-world requirements
Senior Software Engineer
- Led a multi-quarter SaaS product relaunch across all teams — simplified billing and unlocked millions in new revenue
- Served as technical lead between engineering, product, and stakeholders on high-priority features and critical defects
- Architected and built a modernized internal tooling platform, consolidating internal and third-party APIs into a unified employee portal
- Built data pipeline infrastructure enabling business intelligence teams to track key metrics and make data-driven decisions
Technical Support Engineer
- Final escalation point for high-profile and complex technical issues across sales and support
- Built custom solutions in the field to unblock customers ahead of long-term engineering fixes
- Developed deep expertise in Linux appliances, networking, virtualization, and macOS environments
Skills
PHP
Symfony
Laravel
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Python
MySQL
Docker
Git
SSO
AI
Claude
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Advanced Computing
May 2012
The College at Brockport, SUNY — NSF Scholarship, Dean's Scholarship, Eagle Scout