Current Position
Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Pay-i
Bellevue, WA • Feb 2025 — Present
Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Azure DevOps, Azure, AWS, Linux
Engineered a "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) deployment architecture for AWS and Azure Marketplaces, bootstrapping underlying infrastructure with Terraform, Bicep, and CloudFormation, and packaging the distributed system via Helm.
Designed delegated-access deployments utilizing Azure Managed Applications (MRG) and Terraform-provisioned AWS environments, leveraging cross-account IAM policies and Flux to manage infrastructure and application lifecycles across isolated client accounts.
Managed the deployment and scaling infrastructure for a high-throughput CDC pipeline (PostgreSQL to ClickHouse via PeerDB), reducing compute costs by aggressively right-sizing Kubernetes nodes for data-heavy workloads.
Partnered with client platform teams to resolve cluster-specific deployment blockers and configure custom environment integrations.
Contributed to the core .NET/C# backend to support infrastructure requirements, building automated platform tooling that reduced CI/CD pipeline maintenance to under 10% of engineering bandwidth.
Previous Positions
Software Engineer at Ambassador Software
Seattle, WA • June 2021 — Feb 2025
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, AWS, GCP, JavaScript, React, BigQuery
Architected and launched a JSON-driven workflow engine (Python/Django/PostgreSQL/Redis/Celery) enabling custom user-defined triggers and actions, which expanded the core platform to a comprehensive loyalty solution.
Increased system uptime from 95% to 99.95% and reduced average response latency by 60% through aggressive database query optimization, asynchronous job refactoring, and query caching.
Migrated the public-facing API from Node.js to Django, writing an extensive suite of unit tests to guarantee functional parity and ensure a zero-regression rollout.
Built an automated analytics data warehouse utilizing AWS RDS, S3, BigQuery, and Google Apps Script to power large-scale customer data exports and accelerate internal business insights.
Integrated third-party payment and analytics APIs (Hyperwallet, GoodData) to extend core platform capabilities and streamline external reporting and financial workflows.
Data Science Intern at ContextLink
Seattle, WA (Remote) • September 2020 — May 2021
Python, Pulumi, AWS, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn
Built an automated data preprocessing workflow using AWS S3 and Lambda to trigger an ordinal encoder for categorical features, improving data consistency and training reliability.
Developed Python utilities for data transformation and feature encoding (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) while learning cloud integration patterns with Pulumi and AWS services.
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA • 2018 — March 2022 • GPA: 3.97
Technical Skills
Backend:
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery,
DevOps & Tools:
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Bicep, CloudFormation, AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux,