EXPERIENCE:
Staff Software Engineer, Platform (Acting Engineering Manager)
Atelio (by FIS) (via acq. of Bond Financial Technologies), USA (Remote)
06/2021 - 02/2025
Responsibilities:
- Led and managed the Platform team, responsible for the operation and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, and monitoring
- Responsible for effective prioritization of Platform Roadmap, balancing product, engineering, infrastructure, client, and business needs
- Oversaw and managed (player/coach methodology) the ongoing maintenance of Kubernetes, terraform, and cloud resources
- Owned organization-wide incident response plans and procedures
- Mentored junior engineers in project management, prioritization, and stakeholder communication, with multiple promotions to senior roles
- Manage relationships and contracts with external software vendors (AWS, Fastly, Datadog, VGS, StrongDM, Vanta)
- Represented the Engineering organization at organization-wide leadership meetings during the post-acqusition period
- Cross-functional collaboration with product teams to deprecate redundent systems and duplicated functionality to reduce operational complexity
Key Accomplishments:
- Managed $500K+ annual infrastructure budget across AWS and auxiliary services, securing nearly $100K in vendor overage charge waivers through strategic negotiation
- Led post-acquisition organizational design, defining team structures and responsibilities for newly hired Directors of Engineering across multiple product areas
- Directly managed 8 engineers and 2 managers across multiple teams, while growing Platform Engineering team from 1 to 4 full-time engineers
- Orchestrated hiring strategy and execution across product teams, including candidate evaluation and cross-team placement optimization. Onboarded 12 Senior+ Engineers to a 15 person organization
- Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives with Product Engineering, Operations, and Leadership to bootstrap new organizations for IT Management and Technical Escalation Engineering responsibilities
- Architected and oversaw the consolidation of disjoint application microservices into a modern and best-practice application, reducing data workflow failures by ~95%
- Coordinated and managed the hiring process of 12 Senior+ Engineers to various product-engineer teams between February and April 2025
- Coordinated with internal and external security contacts on acquisition, management, and maintainance of SOC2 Type 2 certification
- Coordinated with stakeholders across multiple FIS verticals to ensure Atelio adhered to FIS internal IT and security processes and requirements
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering
Fullstory, Austin, TX, USA (Remote)
02/2019 - 06/2021
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the maintainance and functionality of internally-build depployment orchestration system
- Managed production and pre-production Kubernetes environments
- Managed day-to-day operational issues and scaling of our internal Prometheus-based monitoring systems
Key Accomplishments:
- Migrated node scheduling from job-based to attribute-based model, improving the utilization of compute resources and reducing scheduling delays
- Evangelized the introduction of a Service Mesh across the engineering organization
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering
Yonder (formally New Knowledge), Austin, Texas, USA
02/2019 - 02-2020
Responsibilities:
- Owned the prioritization and execution of all Devops, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability requirements
- Maintained multiple Kubernetes clusters for both production and staging workloads
- Worked with individual Product Engineering leads to reduce operational complexity and streamline our engineering process
- Actively worked to reduce existing overengineered solutions and improve engineering productivity
Key Accomplishments:
- Executed a Cloud Migration strategy to migrate all live stateless and stateful workloads from Azure to AWS without downtime
- Worked with product engineering to standardize and restructure web scraping infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead by ~95%
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Pixlee, Austin, Texas, USA
11/2018 - 02/2019
Responsibilities:
- Updated the development workflow of core applications to include modern and professional software engineering practices
- Designed and developed reproducable and automated developer environments based in a Kubernetes environment
- Identified and communicated fundamental issues in the existing configuration management, and developed a safe migration plan to correct the issues
- Identified and communicated issues in the current production infrastructure which negatively impact system cost, reliabilty, and operational insight
- Delivered a safe, long term plan to migrate to Kubernetes in order to reduce the infrastructure bloat, consolidate services, improve reliability, and ease operational burden
Staff Software Engineer
Cratejoy, Austin, Texas, USA
01/2018 - 10/2018
Responsibilities:
- Managed our production Kubernetes infrastructure, staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Interfaced with individual product teams in order to plan for upcoming deployment, monitoring, and tooling needs
- Migrated our central application deployments to team-specific automated deployments
- Developed internal services to aid in the ease of development of user facing products
Key Accomplishments:
- Architected and managed the development of the Cratejoy Custom Domain SSL feature (with Lets Encrypt)
Senior Software Engineer
Cratejoy, Austin, Texas, USA
02/2015 - 01/2018
Responsibilities:
- Formed and led our Site Reliability Engineering team in order to prioritize stability, reliability, performance, and ease of development
- Identify, investigate, and resolve platform-wide performance and reliability issues
- Developed and released a reliable internal Traffic Analysis system (with full grainularity), used throughout the company to make business critical decisions
- Developed and maintained features for the Merchant Tools section of the Cratejoy Platform
Key Accomplishments:
- Developed internal support for, and implemented, an Engineering On-Call rotation and emergency response playbook
- Led a migration of our internal infrastructure from Ansible managed machines to Kubernetes
- Designed, implemented, and rolled out PayPal support for all storefronts, which is used by 1000+ Merchants, and accounts for ~15% of platform purchase volume
- Received multiple internal awards, including company wide 'Impact of the Quarter' (Q4 2016) and 'Engineering Values' (Q1 2017)
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