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ArcaleaSenior Software Engineer
Sep. 2025Chicago, Illinois, United States- TBD
VoicePatrolContract Software Engineer
Sep. 2025 - Oct. 2025• Developed scalable streaming voice moderation solutions using Golang within AWS EKS. • Implemented GitOps best practices to improve deployment efficiency and reliability. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support innovations in the VR and gaming industry. • Established best practices for software delivery while being mindful of budget constraints. • Worked in a fully-remote team spanning half the globe by timezone
FetchFree-Range Message Wrangler
Aug. 2023 - Aug. 2025Madison, Wisconsin, United States• Gained proficiency in working with an AI agent to deliver code as a force multiplier • Performed system stress testing and addressed performance issues in core system services to facilitate a first-of-its-kind Superbowl livestream event for tens of millions of simultaneous users • Built a hackathon project for a Kafka processor with hot-reloadable business logic that won its category for improving iteration speed and deployment times for stream processing • Led a small team to build out a highly elastic notification and messaging platform on kubernetes (K8s) and AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) integrating a partner product • Created reusable terraform modules to deliver highly elastic workloads to production for both real-time and batch use-cases • Worked with development to address and remediate security concerns related to secret management in CI/CD pipelines • Introduced an AI code review tool to increase developer efficiency by reducing time spent on easily identifiable issues and catching bugs earlier in the release cycle • Added AI agent integration via an MCP server to our internal code templating tool to increase developer productivity • Collaborated between DevOps, Backend, and Data Engineering to adopt tooling for end-to-end traceability of data (DataHub) • Mentored multiple coworkers on the topics of system architecture and design, Kafka, K8s, Docker, general development, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Fetch RewardsAmbient Utilitarian
Nov. 2022 - Aug. 2023Madison, Wisconsin, United States• Built developer tooling to facilitate code generation and the creation of new services following best practices for networking, security, observability, and performance. • Built an ecosystem of terraform modules to make best practice adherence as simple as possible for developers, increasing productivity across the organization • Worked with developers to create reusable CI/CD components to simplify the delivery and increase the visibility of deployments
Fetch RewardsDevOps Magister
Apr. 2022 - Nov. 2022Madison, Wisconsin, United States• Acted as a DevOps advisor to a development team, enhancing the core receipt scanning experience using advanced ML techniques, ultimately saving over $10,000,000 in licensing yearly • Developed an A/B performance testing solution incorporating both Locust.io and OpenTelemetry for the receipt scan ML pipeline, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline deployment processes, improving efficiency and reducing delivery time.
Fetch RewardsPlatform Artificer
Sep. 2021 - Apr. 2022Madison, Wisconsin, United States• Iterate on and constantly improve software delivery, infrastructure, monitoring, and developer tooling • Manage AWS infrastructure • Increase container adoption by creating tooling and instrumentation for ECS and EKS • Built applications with OpenTelemetry instrumentation for logs, traces, and metrics
Fetch Rewards, Inc.Innovation Evangelist
Dec. 2020 - Sep. 2021Madison, Wisconsin, United States• Implemented changes to legacy systems to scale from 4 million to 10 million monthly users • Built out a new receipt processing pipeline to make the process more performant by leveraging an event-based architecture pattern • Implemented enhancements to CI/CD pipelines • Built a number of back-end services in Java, go, and Kotlin
Fetch Rewards, Inc.Senior Services Engineer
Nov. 2019 - Dec. 2020Madison, Wisconsin Area• Implemented changes to legacy systems to scale from 2 million to 4 million monthly users • Built services in a largely self-directed environment to support a widely used mobile application with high user retention • Implemented application infrastructure on AWS in Java and Go
Nelnet Diversified SolutionsSenior Software Engineer
Feb. 2018 - Nov. 2019Madison, Wisconsin Area- Worked with business partners to design and develop back-end APIs for the next generation federal student loan portal - Implemented performance improvements for a business reporting extract-transform-load (ETL) process - Actively participated in a community of practice to evaluate and propose new technologies and best practices to the organization - Performed testing, analysis, and development to re-platform a federal student loan servicing system, and taught support teams to maintain applications on the platform - Administrated the Atlassian suite for the organization (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and AffiliatesSenior Software Engineer
Jul. 2017 - Feb. 2018Madison, Wisconsin Area- Developed a modern workflow management application and successfully integrated it with several legacy systems - Led adoption of RESTful services and modern UI frameworks, by example, across the organization - Developed and maintained systems for exercising and maintaining our organization's business continuity plan - Developed applications primarily with Java utilizing Spring Framework and single-page-application (SPA) front-end frameworks - Performed enhancements to an extensible internal workflow application, as part of an agile team, releasing every two weeks - Led a 24-hour hack-a-thon team to demonstrate database containers, via AWS, for disposable test environments
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and AffiliatesProgrammer/Analyst
Jun. 2011 - Jul. 2017Madison, Wisconsin Area- Performed maintenance on the core federal student loan servicing system - Early adopter of an agile development methodology, as a member of one of our pioneering teams - Worked independently or in small teams on systems built in Java and legacy languages on several different platforms - Developed applications with Java on Spring Framework and Java Server Faces (JSF) technologies - Developed systems for the maintenance of large databases and nightly batch processing, as well as systems to aid development and business continuity planning - Led a 24-hour hack-a-thon team to demonstrate packaging UI artifacts as re-usable Angular components using NodeJS and git
First National Bank of PlattevilleSysops and Development Intern
Oct. 2009 - Jun. 2011Platteville, WI- Supported end-users with technical issues and concerns - Administered email, domain controllers, telephony, and ticketing system servers - running a mix of linux and Windows - Assisted in the selection of a primary antivirus solution - Assisted with the implementation of disaster recovery measures across 3 separate sites - Wrote a .NET application to interface with core banking software to assist with fraud monitoring
UW-PlattevilleAuxiliary Service Worker
May. 2009 - Aug. 2009- Sand/prep/paint metal doors and doorways in preparation for the coming year - Keep three people I was charged with on task
MarquipWardUnitedProduction Assistant
Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2008Phillips, Wisconsin- Clean shop - Fabricate metal parts from CAD drawings - Welding - Mechanical assembly - Custom machine modification
Innomation IncFabricator
Jun. 2007 - Aug. 2007Phillips, Wisconsin- Clean shop - Fabricate metal parts - Welding - Mechanical assembly - Custom machine modification
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