Redacted (contact for details) · Richmond, VA

• Transitioned from directly managing a 7-person platform team to a horizontal technical leadership role (vacated by a Distinguished Engineer), guiding architecture and platform strategy for ~24 engineers and a 120+ cross-functional stakeholder network.
• Redesigned a legacy webhook delivery model into an event-driven AWS architecture (SNS/SQS/Lambda), reducing daily event volume by 97% (200,000 to 5,000) and cutting failure rates by 90% while absorbing 15% higher PR volume. The design was subsequently adopted as the organizational standard.
• Authored and open-sourced OpenRewrite Docker recipes to drive a mass migration to hardened distroless images, successfully standardizing supply chains and automating across 3,300+ production repositories, providing white-glove support to ~200 applications..
• Eliminated container vulnerabilities across 30-40 teams by standardizing distroless image adoption and resolving CI/CD pipeline gaps, sustaining zero CVEs over rolling 6-month windows.
• Diagnosed and resolved a highly complex DNS caching bottleneck across a multi-thousand container deployment, restoring baseline performance after previous mitigation attempts by other senior engineers had failed.
• Spearheaded the Spring Boot 2 EOL migration for ~180 APIs by developing custom OpenRewrite recipes (Java 17/Spring Boot 3) and execution scripts, eventually scaling these tools cross-organizationally to empower other lines of business to build their own automated migrations (500+ APIs).
• Architected an enterprise-standard ECS Fargate migration platform that enabled self-service adoption, reducing individual team migration effort from 1-4 days to 1-4 hours for 30+ teams.
• Drove shift-left security and observability standards across 30+ teams (nearly 200 components) by standardizing OpenTelemetry (CNCF) configurations and publishing comprehensive supply chain workflow documentation, significantly reducing platform support overhead.
• Mentored engineers across the organization and served as the primary technical advisor for CI/CD, AWS, and polyglot (Java/Go/Groovy) platform best practices spanning 30+ engineering teams.

Individual, Open Source · remote - Richmond, VA

• Co-founded community fork of Swagger Codegen (where I was a core contributor from 2016-2018) — now adopted by thousands of developers worldwide
• Established core architectural patterns and community practices (e.g. issue and pull request templates, user documentation, release processes)
• Built initial Gradle Plugin implementation, enabling seamless integration with build pipelines
• Led process improvements across tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact publishing
• Collaborated with OpenAPI Generator community

Expedia, Inc. · remote - Richmond, VA

• Participated in the design and construction of Microservices Architecture for new AdTech project(s)
• Built reusable developer tooling (sbt plugin, Docker compose testing environment) that streamlined local development workflows
• Mentored 6+ Junior and Senior level developers on SOLID principles, code review practices, and architectural patterns
• Led database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL, coordinating cross-team efforts and minimizing downtime
• Managed multiple parallel workstreams (Spark Pipeline/DevOps, new development of 9 APIs, legacy API management)
• Team contributed to Spark Structured Streaming distributed data processing pipeline
• Drove process improvements for team formation and development workflows

Individual, Open Source · remote - Richmond, VA

• Core contributor to Swagger Codegen, maintaining C# and ASP.NET Core generators until co-founding OpenAPI Generator fork in 2018
• Built initial implementations for 4 new generators — Kotlin client (Java/Android), Kotlin server (Ktor), ASP.NET Core server, and Scala server (Finch)
• Contributed alpine-based Docker image, reducing image size from ~700MB to ~200MB
• Provided initial implementation of .swagger-codegen-ignore processing
• Contributed bug fixes in areas outside the responsibilities of my generators (Maven Plugin)
• Actively engaged with community through issue triage and pull request reviews

Integrated Business Systems, Inc. · Richmond, VA

• Led architectural migration of BI product from monolithic jQuery/MVC to scalable SPA (AngularJS + RESTful APIs), improving performance and maintainability
• Designed and implemented SQL Server Service Broker messaging framework (via External Activation) to offload long-running processes from web applications
• Introduced Inversion of Control patterns across multi-layered architecture, enabling configuration-driven data flow to multiple backend systems
• Mentored junior and senior developers on SOLID principles, testing best practices, and architectural patterns
• Championed process improvements and development best practices across engineering organization

Expedia, Inc. · Bellevue, WA

• Architected and delivered new REST API and UI using Scala/Scalatra/AngularJS, replacing legacy PHP system
• Refactored Node.js facade API for improved performance, implementing comprehensive testing framework and parameter validation
• Built automation tooling for Node.js applications including Swagger documentation generation from custom JSDoc annotations
• Led engineering process improvements — established git workflows, code review standards, pair programming practices, and Scrum adoption
• Mentored interns and junior developers; conducted technical interviews for mid-level and senior engineering candidates

Enghouse Interactive · remote - Richmond, VA

• Member of development team for call center-centric telephony suite, CallRex
• Created maintenance patches of legacy software using C++, particularly related to VoIP packet processing using SIP, SKINNY (SCCP), and RTP
• Discovered Unicode bug in SIP packet header which could corrupt a Windows environment’s unmanaged memory at kernel or user space
• Created a unit-testing and functional-testing process integrated into the build using MSBuild 4.0

Primescape Solutions, Inc. · Herndon, VA

• Designed and developed software and web applications using Microsoft .NET 3.5
• Created custom, reusable controls and frameworks for reporting on large data sets
• Owned configuration and maintenance of a collaborative Drupal CMS for a global client organization; administered the Linux server hosting the instance

Expedia, Inc. · Bellevue, WA

• Contributed to construction of a scalable, high-availability public-facing B2B web application using ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Razor View Engine)
• Researched and implemented automated UI end-to-end testing using Gallio/MbUnit
• Participated in interview process for Senior .NET Software Developer Engineers

Primescape Solutions, Inc. · Herndon, VA

• Performed major enhancements and added functionality to a grants/budget management web application using ASP.NET/C# and Oracle 9i
• Upgraded application from .NET 1.1 to .NET 3.5 SP1; complied with coding and security standards for Federal Government client

GE Healthcare · Richmond, VA

• Interned beginning with Agility Healthcare Solutions, which was acquired by GE Healthcare during the engagement
• Performed bug fixes and enhancements in an HL7-compliant Rich Internet Application using ASP.NET 3.5 and C#, working within a mixed Agile/Scrum methodology
• Evaluated build process using CruiseControl.NET, MSBuild, and WiX