Work Experience
TecAlliance
Principal Software Engineer
Remote
June 2015 - December 2023
Skills: Scala, Java, Solr, Netty, AWS, Docker, LMDB, Protobuf, FlatBuffers, MySQL, AutoCare & TecDoc Standards
Frugal Mechanic
Co-Founder | CTO | Lead Developer
Issaquah, WA
June 2008 - June 2015
Co-Founder of Frugal Mechanic which was an automotive parts comparison shopping site which later evolved into providing services for the automotive aftermarket industry via our Eluvio trade name. It was acquired by TecAlliance in 2015.
Skills: Scala, Java, Ruby on Rails, Apache Solr, Redis, AWS, Docker, HAProxy, BDB JE, CouchDB, Cassandra, MySQL
SecondSpace
Software Engineer
Bellevue, WA
April 2007 - June 2008
Skills: C#, ASP.NET, Transact-SQL, SQL Server, Java, Apache Solr, HAProxy, Nagios, Cacti
Amazon
Software Engineer
Seattle, WA
February 2004 - April 2007
Member of Supplier Information Services team and founding member of the Corporate Accounts team building Amazon’s B2B business.
Skills: C++, Java, Perl, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Oracle Database, Berkeley DB, MySQL, cXML PunchOut
Sparkart
Software Engineer
Remote
March 2001 - January 2004
I worked at Sparkart during college building high traffic web sites for bands like Linkin Park.
Skills: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, C, FreeBSD
Volunteer Experience
Highlands Fiber Network
Board of Directors
Issaquah, WA
October 2013 - Present
Highlands Fiber Network (HFN) is a community owned fiber network serving the Issaquah Highlands. I have been involved with the network since 2004 when I moved into the community. I was on the HFN Advisory Council when the network was stilled owned by Port Blakely and I now serve on the Board of Directors since the community purchased the network in 2013.
Education
University of Washington
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Seattle, WA
September 2000 - June 2003
I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree from the University of Washington.
Skills: Operating Systems, Embedded Systems