Projects and Experience

Local Park Ball Distribution Initiative

Current

Designing an operational and technical workflow for distributing sports balls to local parks so families can access equipment more consistently and fairly.

Annapolis Soccer Club Website and IT Operations

Current

Led the rebuild of the new annapolissoccerclub.com website and continues to manage website operations and IT systems, including automation for recurring seasonal content updates.

Galaxy Digital LLC - VP of Engineering

Current

Leads engineering for cloud infrastructure and automation in cryptocurrency and AI systems, with a focus on reliability, operational efficiency, and scalable platform architecture.

Back Creek Software

August 2022 - Present

Currently closed

Founded an independent consultancy focused on Riak operations, performance, stability, and custom features for local and international clients, including support for Tokyo Interactive and OpenRiak deployments.

BlockFi - Head of Platform Engineering / Principal Engineer

June 2020 - August 2022

Led migration from monolith to ECS-based microservices, built and managed a global team of eight engineers, and strengthened CI/CD with unit, property-based, and load testing to support rapid scale.

Riot Games - Tech Lead, Social Infrastructure

June 2018 - June 2020

Delivered core Erlang social services for multi-game and multi-region operations, including friend migration systems and routing infrastructure that reduced operational complexity for global social features.

Workiva - Cloud Operations and Orchestration

June 2017 - June 2018

Led container orchestration and cloud operations work, including a Kubernetes migration prototype that reduced cloud costs while improving deployment control and testing capabilities.

Basho Technologies - Senior Engineer

January 2012 - June 2017

Supported and developed Riak core systems, enterprise replication, and customer-critical deployments, with deep involvement in debugging, on-call response, and distributed database operations.

ARINC (Collins Aerospace) - Software Engineer

March 2010 - December 2011

Built Java and Python features for in-cockpit communication systems, including robust testbed simulations for ACARS messaging workflows across ground and cockpit components.

MI-Corporation - Software Engineer

December 2007 - February 2010

Developed and tested healthcare/public-service e-forms software in C#/VB .NET while managing backend services and databases for production reliability.