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+++ title = "Resume" description = "A history of professional, educational, and personal interests" weight = 1 +++

Summary

I am a polyglot developer with considerable experience in Ruby and Rails and cloud infrastructure. I excel at being a force multiplier, mentoring developers, and writing clear and useful documentation for other engineers. I am passionate about giving my teams the tools they need to develop and deliver software by creating powerful and simple development and deployment environments.

Work History

OysterHR, Remote

Tech Lead & Staff Software Engineer

September 2021 - 20 January 2023

  • Designed and implemented a reproducible and identical local stack across Linux and macOS using nix, direnv, just, and supervisord
    • Single-handedly reduced new engineer onboarding time to about 2 hours
  • Supported the entire engineering department with the local development environment in both Linux and macOS
  • Rewrote the git-hosted markdown documentation into a complete tutorial and walkthrough to onboard new developers using Notion
  • Developed policies and best practices for features across multiple teams and stakeholders, including product
  • Designed complex data structures for use in all countries serviced by Oyster
  • Collaborated with product owners to document feature requirements and time estimates
  • Implemented features of all sizes as well as writing fixes for ad-hoc failures
  • Added instrumentation to track arbitrary metrics for features and performance
  • Participated in many technical interviews, resulting in hiring many new engineers including other Staff level engineers

Consolo Services / WellSky, Remote

Principal Software Architect

June 2006 - August 2021

  • Founding engineer of the team; one of four initial employees
  • Led product from a tiny startup of about 7 customers to over 30 M requests / month
  • Led migration of the core application from pre-beta Ruby on Rails all the way to Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts first in AWS and later in GCP
  • Implemented one of the most sophisticated billing systems for hospice and Medicare
  • Spearheaded a platform-wide documentation project to share knowledge
  • Designed benchmarks to improve system response times across the entire platform
  • Committed bug fixes to vagrant, the open source development tool
  • We sold the Consolo IP to WellSky in 2019 at a $50M valuation
  • Contributed in some way to each of the 20+ microservices
  • Fostered new developers

Performance Support, Montgomery, AL

Systems Operator

October 2004 - June 2006

  • Maintained an interim Secret clearance
  • Managed Department of Defense computer systems at Maxwell Air Force base
  • Developed tools to automate system maintenance tasks and shift duties
    • Reduced a process from 3 hours per shift to an automated email every 15 minutes
  • Administered machines running HP-UX on PA-RISC processors

Technologies

Ruby and Ruby on Rails I have used Ruby and Rails professionally since 2006
Documentation Notion, mdbook, and Markdown
Cloud Computing AWS and GCP
Containers Docker, podman, firecracker, and FreeBSD jails
Automation Terraform, Ansible, just, and plain shell scripts
CI / CD CircleCI, Google Cloud Build, Jenkins, and Github Actions
Instrumentation Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Honeycomb, NewRelic, and DataDog
Databases PostgreSQL and SQLite
Other languages I have used Rust, Erlang, Elixir, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C, and Java to solve all manner of tasks.

Education

Tennessee Tech University

Computer Science, B.S.

August 2001 - December 2009

Personal

  • I am the cook of the house.
    • I make most meals in the house and I can also make some killer baked goods.
  • I enjoy overlanding, offroading, and camping.
  • My family has a farm.
    • A working farm with more than 75 animals across 8 different species.
  • I do not need a gym membership: I have a farm. It is hard work, but rewarding.
  • My partner grows cut flowers professionally.
  • My tractor is more expensive than my truck.
  • I self-host most of the services I use online (but not email).
  • I enjoy playing video games.
  • I learn new programming languages that seem interesting to me.
  • My family recently developed a shared interest in Pokemon TCG (Trading Card Game).
  • My partner and I have travelled to Japan 5 times together.
    • COVID has been hard on travel, hopefully the price of the tickets will come down now that the borders are open to tourists again (2023-01-12).