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Executive Summary

A technical leader who partners with executives to translate strategic ambiguity into organizational capability. Builds the platforms, processes, and teams that allow engineering organizations to scale—turning undefined technical challenges into resilient architectures and enabling hundreds of engineers to ship with confidence. Successes sit at the intersection of deep technical ownership and broad organizational influence: setting architectural direction for high-stakes initiatives, modernizing critical infrastructure without business disruption, and cultivating engineering culture through mentorship, onboarding, and cross-functional alignment. Whether preparing a company for its next growth stage or establishing foundational systems that outlast any single product cycle, he operates as a force multiplier who elevates technical execution across the entire organization.

Recent Work Experience

Alix, Inc.
January 2026April 2026

Head of System Architecture

  • Led architecture, discovery, and implementation planning for AI-powered agentic systems leveraging LLMs, workflow orchestration, and enterprise knowledge sources to automate internal operational workflows, saving $300,000+ annually
  • Collaborated with product staff and engineers, creating a roadmap for development efforts and preparing Alix for Series B
  • Reported directly to CTO demonstrating high level of autonomy and confidence
Oracle
September 2024June 2025

Senior Member of Technical Staff

  • Organized and lead a code coverage bash, coordinating a team of more than 10 engineers to increase unit test code coverage from less than 60% to over 96%, ensuring compliance and reducing future maintenance efforts
  • Increased published metrics 10x to support 3 new Grafana dashboards detailing important statistics of a microservice
  • Implemented OpenSearch aggregations to summarize action items in a workflow, organizing and optimizing content access
  • Managed and maintained developer environment setup for 2 converging VPNs, greatly increasing legacy developer efficiency
Blizzard Entertainment
July 2015April 2024

Senior Software Engineer

  • As a self starter stretch goal outside of job expectations, co-championed cross-architecture build pipelines, both to support flexible deployment strategies, and local development environments delivering solutions compatible with Mac/Apple solutions. This impacted and directly ensured the success of over 300 developers as well as unlocked potential cost savings in future cloud architecture changes
  • Developed and implemented architecture and deployment changes to add industry-standard observability and performance tracking for 10+ unique services, resulting in zero code changes and zero downtime and no further maintenance required
  • Added Docker and Docker Compose support and documentation for local development and production deployment to 5+ enterprise and public products, reducing project creation, onboarding, and cross-project context switching
    time by an average of 80%
  • Start to finish hiring for two open internship positions, including: interviewing, extending offers, onboarding training, day to day touch point, tasking, and evaluations
  • Managed transition of intern to fulltime position, including recommendation and additional onboarding support, ensuring a successful transition into a FTE
  • Lead and developed the onboarding program for 16 new team members spread across 4 disciplines over a period of 7 years to a portfolio of 10+ projects, including providing demos of products, serving as point person for questions, and suppling resources within the company
  • Lead efforts for creating and delivering engaging and relevant team building events on a monthly basis for 10 people for 5 years
  • Mastery of new technology (Puppet, Hiera, Terraform, r10k, and Hiera-Eyaml) as part of a highly technical, multi-stage process to successfully migrate 5+ products from a deprecated and insecure hosting and pipeline solution, to a more modern solution
  • Represented Blizzard at the 2019 BlizzCon convention as a Codecraft Panelist, responding to engineering questions from the crowd, selected as 1 of 5 panelists from different teams within Blizzard as an expert in my field
  • Profiled and optimized APIs with 1,000s of permutations, in preparation for 15 million new hits per month, including a peak of over 14,000 hits per second, increasing responsiveness by 280,000%
  • Owned and acted as a subject matter expert (SME) for an existing, in-house, content management system, serving 100s of legal documents to 20+ unique surfaces in up to 16 languages worldwide
  • Owned and acted as a subject matter expert (SME) for an existing, in-house, batch processing system, supporting the launches of 14 individual titles over a 7 years period
  • Represented Blizzard in both Blizzard Developer Forums and a community run Blizzard API Developer Discord server for 6 years
  • Migrated outsourced Public Developer Portal in-house, using a bespoke project to render the documents, including monthly data updates from stakeholders, with zero downtime creating a 30% cost savings overall

Skills and Keywords

Technical

Java, Micronaut, Jenkins, Docker, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Maven, OS X, Linux, Git, OpenSearch, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud Config, Oracle Database, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, AWS, ArgoCD, Groovy, Node.js, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Build, Content Management Systems, CMS, Contentstack, Tridion SDL, Puppet, Hiera, Terraform, Git, Windows, Vagrant, Ruby, Python, Django, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Heroku, VirtualBox

Professional

Software Architecture, Product Management, Product Road Mapping, Coaching, Mentoring, Leading Without Authority, Interviewing, Managing Up, Systems Architecture, Technical Strategy, Platform Scaling, Solution Design, AI Systems Architecture, Technical Program Leadership, Technology Investment Strategy, Product Strategy, Executive Communication, Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Change Management, Technology Adoption, Learning & Development, Developer Enablement, Technical Coaching, Engineering Culture Development, Organizational Scaling, Risk Management, Strategic Planning