Professional Experience

Grafana Labs, Remote

Senior Software Engineer II Apr 2024 - Present

  • Part of the Platform Federal team working to develop and deploy a FedRAMP compliant environment

Workiva, Ames, IA

Staff Software Engineer Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
Senior Software Engineer Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Software Engineer May 2018 - Apr 2020
Software Engineering Intern Jan 2016 - May 2018

  • Develop services to provide infrastructure capabilities to developers’ applications, while making sure our infrastructure does not get overloaded
  • Integrate third party services into our clusters while maintaining FedRAMP security compliance
  • Maintain and troubleshoot multiple multi-hundred node clusters
  • Collaborate through leading a community of practice as well as Game Day trainings
  • Transitioned company to running in AWS on their Elastic Kubernetes Service.

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Teaching Assistant Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Lead two lab sections per week teaching fundamentals of programming utilizing the C programming language, keep regular office hours as educational resource for students and review and grade programming assignments providing feedback and critique for improvement.

Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA

Software Engineering Intern May 2015 - Aug 2015

Created .NET application in C# to automate aviation data loading via one-click deployment, worked with verification team writing python scripts to automate testing software and refactored legacy C# code to optimize logfile parsing algorithm.

Skills

Languages

Python, Golang, Rust, Bash, Java

Technical

Cloud services (AWS, GAE), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, Reliability Engineering, Linux

Educational History

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering