2022–2025
- Managed the core development org (5–12 engineers) responsible for business-critical backend systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Led on-call and incident response for production systems; serious incidents were escalated to company leadership.
- Continued to be hands-on: authored and reviewed Go services, led architecture reviews, owned on-call incident triage, and shipped automation used in production.
2020–2021
- Maintained uptime and service quality for systems with company-level impact; led incident response when needed.
- Served as the subject-matter expert for the team’s primary critical application, providing architectural direction and troubleshooting.
- Balanced people management with active technical contribution (code reviews, performance work, and tooling).
2017–2020
- Led development and maintenance of a primary production application and several supporting tools to improve reliability and correctness.
- Built automation and observability to reduce toil and speed diagnostics.
- Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Vue.js, Lua, Python.
2016–2017
- Built scalable backend services in Go and React frontends for internal dashboards.
- Contributed to open-source projects (including Cloud Foundry Loggregator) to improve logging and metrics pipelines.
- Implemented CI/CD, testing, and performance improvements for platform services.
- Designed firmware algorithms running on HDD controllers to support servo calibration, head positioning, and signal processing.
- Implemented on-drive servo calibration firmware and built Python/Matlab/C tools for calibration visualization, data collection, and automated testing.
- Improved manufacturing yield and reliability through control-loop and calibration optimizations.
- M.S., Computer Science — emphasis on high-performance and scientific computing
- B.S., Mathematics — emphasis pure math (abstract algebra, number theory, combinatorics)
- B.S., Computer Science — emphasis compiler design, HPC, and distributed systems