Resumé

Work

Tegus
Chicago, IL
Senior DevOps Engineer · March 2022 to Current

  • Kubernetes transformation
  • Platform team managing monolith-to-microservice transition
  • Developer tools/experience
  • On-call/interruptions
  • Communication with other teams
  • Documenting infrastructure work

PayPal
Chicago, IL
Developer Relations Engineer · Aug. 2021 to March 2022

  • Worked on the new Developer Relations team building internal applications and developing content for external developers using PayPal.

Software Engineer · Nov. 2020 to Aug. 2021

  • Worked on the Unified API team, building and maintaining a GraphQL API that was used for unbranded payments by some of PayPal’s biggest customers

HERE Technologies
Chicago, IL
Senior DevOps Engineer · Oct. 2017 to Nov. 2020

  • Infrastructure and version control modernization through SRE engagements
  • Create service health dashboards and process automation, incorporating external tools into monitoring systems
  • Manage existing infrastructure and deploys and deploy new applications or application revisions as necessary
  • Create, deploy, and maintain internal applications to monitor infrastructure and applications

NextTier Education
Chicago, IL
DevOps Engineer · July 2016 to Aug. 2017

  • Company lead for our infrastructure and operations
  • Worked with Docker to containerize our applications
  • Used AWS to host our applications, services, and databases
  • Deployed and managed NextTier’s frontend web application, backend API, and various microservices that supplement our main application
  • Developer on the backend team, worked primarily in Python using the Django framework and the Django REST Framework library, helping plan, scope, and develop new features

Turing Group
Evanston, IL/Chicago, IL
Developer · Jan. 2015 to July 2016

  • Lead developer in the planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of two production sites for clients and some smaller internal projects
  • Advocated for and implemented much of the firm’s transition to a primarily Postgres/Ruby/Angular stack
  • Took the lead on exploring and implementing JIRA as a an issue tracking and project management tool
  • Aided in the process of securing AWS MSP Partner status for Turing Group
  • Worked closely with infrastructure team to deploy and monitor production applications

Education

Dev Bootcamp
Web Development 2014
19 week intensive web development program

Creighton University
Master of Arts (M.A.) Education 2013

Creighton University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Relations and Spanish 2011