Job Experience
Software Engineer January 2020 - Present
Lithic (formerly known as Pay with Privacy, Inc; Privacy.com)
New York, New York
Backend systems engineering across the company's ecosystem.
Uses C++, Python, Rust, Postgres, AWS, Pulumi, Docker
  • Implemented the buildout of multiple staging deployments.
  • Migrated multiple services from legacy environments to a containerized platform.
  • Designed an internal service translating a proprietary protocol to HTTP in Rust specifically so engineers without experience in Rust could add features easily.
  • Designed reusable components for engineering teams to use for consistent, reproduciable systems operations.
  • Mentored Engineers in designing fault-tolerant services during a massive re-architecture breaking up a critical monolith application.
  • Found and fixed issues in systems monitoring granularity, uncovering persistent micro-outages affecting realtime transaction processing.
  • Designed and built deeper instrumentation of the realtime transaction processing system to better understand latency bottlenecks.
  • Uncovered and optimized numerous issues with data retrieval to reduce latency by a factor of 10x-1000x.
Data Engineer August 2015 - December 2019
Squarespace
New York, New York
Engineered data pipelines and data warehousing for technical analysts and data scientists.
Uses Python, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Spark, HDFS, AWS, Docker
  • Consolidated data from around the business for cohesive analysis.
  • Built a dataflow extraction pipeline, parsing datasets out of our legacy python pipelines and loading it into Neo4j to analyze the graph of dependencies between pipelines.
  • Migrated legacy pipelines written in an in-house framework based on cron to Apache Airflow by reusable Operator to minimize boilerplate between the legacy codebase and the new workflow system.
  • Built a generic pipeline for replicating snapshots of vendor datasets as type-2 dimensions, preserving versioned history for historical analysis with with SQLAlchemy's internal SQL compiler.
  • Wrote infrastructure to automatically scale up an internal interactive computing environment for analysts and data scientists to explore and process data in Jupyter, Apache Spark, and Kubernetes.
  • Wrote pytest fixtures to house components in Docker containers to facilitate automated testing of data transformations and pipelines under the same conditions they would operate under on production.
Data Science Engineer Summer 2013 - August 2015
Data Science & Engineering - Dow Jones
Minneapolis, Minnesota and New York, New York
Designed and maintained systems for collecting, storing, and processing large quantities of data for data science and analysis.
Uses Python, Scala, Apache Hadoop, AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS Elastic Map Reduce
  • Ingested data from a menagerie of legacy systems for centralized analysis
  • Wrote a declarative system for ingesting data from spreadsheet-based reports through predicate coordinates. It was for getting data from non-technical departments that had reports which would often change formats, so it was necessary to build an ingestion system that would adapt to manually-crafted reports.
  • Developed numerous dashboards that displayed metrics from around the business, giving you a cohesive, consistent view where before you had to look for that data across several different departments.
  • Designed a new approach to getting machine learning models to production by rewriting them to leverage Google Big Query. By converting common transformations to raw SQL automatically with SQLAlchemy, a process that took several hours would often complete in minutes.
Junior Software Developer Fall 2011 - Summer 2013
FoundationIP - CPA Global, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fully-featured webapp for managing intellectual property and coordinating between teams of Attorneys, Paralegals, Docketers and Laypeoples.
Uses Java, Struts2, Spring, Maven, Hibernate, Quartz, MS SQL Server
  • Implemented a toolset to feed the product's codebase from its numerous repositories to a central OpenGrok search engine.
  • Worked on a team of motivated developers fixing bugs, writing features, and refactoring legacy implementations into understandable, performant, new ones.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science 2007 - 2011
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Recurser January 2019 - March 2019
Recurse Center
Brooklyn, New York
Took a 3-month sabbatical during my time at Squarespace to pursue an independent study of the Rust Programming Language.
  • Built a plugin for Rust's build tooling to track transitive dependencies of your codebase that rely on unsafe code.
  • Built a multi-player game in the browser with the client written in Clojurescript and re-frame (Clojurescript's React.js bindings plus a state-management framework similar to Redux) with Rust on the backend using Actix to manage request-routing with actor-based concurrency.
  • Worked with others at the Recurse Center to establish a weekly mentorship check-in to help mentor others how to learn Rust.