Software engineer with 9 years building distributed, high-scale backend systems, with hands-on AI-agent tooling.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer II
AWS
Austin, Texas
10.2022 - Current
Consolidated data ownership across multiple distributed services into a single source of truth, eliminating cross-service data drift and the consistency failures it caused in customer transactions.
Identified and removed a security anti-pattern where a backend reused customer credentials, migrating to service-to-service authentication with a backward-compatible rollout.
Designed distributed rate limiting with per-account fairness across a service fleet, partitioning authenticated vs. anonymous traffic into isolated capacity pools to prevent noisy-neighbor overload on public
endpoints.
Unified two divergent ingestion paths into a single Lambda, retiring a legacy pipeline and closing a gap where certain requests were silently dropped before reaching the service.
Built a multi-region data model and zero-downtime backfill migration for global entity resolution, resolving cross-system data mismatches with a backward-compatible rollout.
Solved cross-domain session continuity during a live traffic migration using a top-level redirect handshake to keep distributed session state consistent across two origins.
Built AI-agent capabilities for on-call operations and adopted spec-driven development, authoring structured specs that agents implement, including a log-correlation skill that pinpoints blast radius during incidents.
Software Engineer
Delta Dental Of Michigan
Okemos, Michigan
07.2017 - 10.2022
Developed microservices to enhance application functionality and scalability. with intelligent cache-eviction strategies to improve performance.
Built a language-processing framework for authoring enterprise business rules, using ANTLR to parse custom grammars into abstract syntax trees for execution across rule engines.
Parallelized existing batch jobs, cutting runtime by 95%.
Designed domain-specific grammar to address XML Schema limitations in rule-authoring framework.
Developed tag framework for indexing knowledge artifacts in Elasticsearch, enabling fast fuzzy discovery over rigid relational search.
Created migration and event frameworks to facilitate artifact movement across environments and publish lifecycle updates via Kafka.