I’m a generalist software engineer with experience managing people, scoping projects,
and working at all levels of implementation. I have significant interest in and
experience with infrastructure, networking, and Bitcoin.
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Engineer
NYDIG, New York, NY
May 2021 - present
- Opensource
work on Bitcoin Core
- Made contributions to live state-of-the-art cold custody system
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Founding board member
OpenSats
November 2020 - present
- Guide 501(c)3 organization and perform technical assessments of candidates for $MM of
opensource funding
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Opensource engineer
Chaincode Labs, New York, NY
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
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Senior Software Engineer
Tempo Automation, San Francisco, CA
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
- Automated operation of a PCB factory with full stack development of various tools.
- Responsible for design, maintenance, and deploy of an ITAR-compliant
server infrastructure on AWS. Uptime so far (including migration) is ~99.992%.
- Led design and implementation of an ES6/React frontend on a tight timeline
that facilitates $MM in annualized revenue.
- Led overhaul of hiring process.
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Platform Engineer
Counsyl, South San Francisco, CA
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
- Led development of an ETL/BI system that provides analytics on the operation
of an automated genome sequencing lab.
- Provisioned and managed many pieces of HIPAA-compliant infrastructure in AWS.
- Implemented a tool that allows individual devs to safely create
and deploy new services without any ops intervention, applied to 12+ systems.
- Automated finance ETL jobs away from painful once-per-month ordeals to
nightly exports using Puppet and Python.
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Engineer, Lead
Percolate, New York, NY
Apr 2012 – Jan 2015
- Built and managed various parts of a large (~140k LOC) distributed
(~400 servers) system written in Python.
- Implemented practices and tools that helped the engineering team ship
multiple times a day while growing from 4 to ~50 engineers.
- Resurrected QA, automated
it
- Sped up multiple pages and processes by an order of magnitude.
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Web developer
Phase2 Technology, Alexandria, VA
Aug 2011 – Mar 2012
- Built a feed-processing service for large news sites using Grails and
MongoDB that injects content into Drupal from various data sources.
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Python developer
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
May 2010 – May 2011
- Worked on FiPy, an object-oriented
partial differential equations lib.
- Added parallelized solving for a large class of problems. 27x faster than
serial solutions.
- Proposed and implemented a CI framework with Buildbot.