01 / Safety Ally
Quiet until it matters.
Set a safety check-in time, tap once to say you are safe, and alert someone you trust only when a check-in is missed.
Visit Safety AllyBackend engineer · Technical lead · Portland, Oregon
Backend systems, built for the moment they’re needed most.
Ruby, Go, cloud infrastructure, production support—and the judgment to keep all four working together.
01 / Selected systems
Useful software, operated with care.
Products designed, built, and kept running.
02 / Lantern
See the shape of a network.
A local-first workspace for exploring devices, services, names, ownership, and routes.
Preview pending
03 / RepoPlay
Drop a history export. Watch the tree grow.
Replay Git history as an animated tree, galaxy, map, city, skyline, constellation, terrain, radial tree, or mycelium. Nothing leaves the browser.
Visit RepoPlay
04 / DirFlow
Drop a directory listing. Watch storage take shape.
Turn file dates, sizes, and directory structure into an animated tree, field of spheres, or map. Nothing leaves the browser.
Visit DirFlow
02 / Career trace
Development informed by production.
A path from incident ownership to backend and platform leadership.
Oct 2024 - Present
Backend Developer / DevOps
Independent Development · Remote
Build tools in Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript for independent and client work.
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Lead Backend Developer / Technical Team Lead
GoX Labs · Remote
Migrated legacy services to AWS ECS and reduced infrastructure costs during a lean operating period.
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Software Developer - Backend
Comcast Technology Solutions · Remote
Built the MPX SDK and CI tooling in Ruby; the SDK was later released as open source.
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Technical Support Lead
Comcast Technology Solutions · Remote
Led the support team for high-traffic media services and owned incident response end to end.
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Application Support IV
thePlatform for Media · Seattle, Washington
Served as the escalation point for complex production issues across distributed media services.
May 2013 - Jun 2014
Senior Support Engineer
thePlatform for Media · Seattle, Washington
Investigated media ingest, transcode, and publishing failures.
May 2011 - May 2013
Application Support Engineer
thePlatform for Media · Seattle, Washington
Triaged and resolved production issues in a high-volume, ticket-driven environment.
03 / Capabilities
Build. Ship. Observe. Own.
Tools matter. How they connect matters more.
01
Build
Services, APIs, and tooling
- Ruby
- Go
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Ruby on Rails
02
Data
Storage and performance
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- SQL query tuning
- ORM optimization
03
Ship
Cloud and delivery
- AWS ECS / EC2 / S3 / Lambda
- CloudWatch / IAM
- Docker
- GitHub Actions / CircleCI
- TeamCity / Jenkins
04
Observe
Signals and diagnosis
- Splunk
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- APM / distributed request tracing with Splunk
- Dashboards / alerting
04 / Route by role
One career record. Four useful views.
Each version is available as a web page and a downloadable PDF.
R-00
Complete
Full career history, projects, technical depth, education, and recognition.
R-01
Backend
APIs, Rails, data, performance, testing, and technical leadership.
R-02
DevOps
Cloud, CI/CD, observability, automation, Linux, and reliability.
R-03
Application Support
Incidents, diagnostics, escalation, customer systems, and reliability.