Resume

Indianapolis, IN (Remote)

• ▹Spearheaded the AI development process across the company, establishing a shared GitHub org, project templates, documentation standards, and CI validation pipelines to govern all internally built AI tools.
• ▹Manage Jenkins pipelines for all builds and deployments across environments.
• ▹Upgraded PostgreSQL from version 13 to 18 across environments using PowerShell and Node.js automation scripts.
• ▹Encrypted all unencrypted RDS PostgreSQL databases, securing approximately 20 databases.
• ▹Built an automated backup process for production websites, improving recovery reliability.
• ▹Migrated AWS IAM user access keys to EC2 instance profiles using IAM roles, improving security posture and reducing credential management overhead.
• ▹Upgraded Windows EC2 instances from Server 2019 to 2025 using CloudFormation.
• ▹Built a React/TypeScript internal tool that replaced manual review of raw PostgreSQL query results with a visual, rule-based triage UI, reducing human error and making tier 4 client support significantly faster.
• ▹Upgraded EBS volumes from gp2 to gp3, improving IOPS performance and reducing storage costs.

Indianapolis, IN (Remote)

• ▹Joined as the founding DevOps engineer, building and growing the team from the ground up to 8 engineers.
• ▹Consolidated fragmented CI/CD across environments (hardcoded PowerShell for production, Jenkins for QA) into a single GitHub Actions workflow, implementing Terraform automation and blue-green deployments and reducing future pipeline changes to one codebase.
• ▹Rewrote deployment scripts to run concurrently across server types, cutting deploy time from approximately 3 hours to under 90 minutes.
• ▹Automated full environment provisioning with Terraform, reducing setup from 2+ weeks of manual work to minutes.
• ▹Developed and maintained Bash and PowerShell scripts integrating external APIs, streamlining operational tasks.
• ▹Managed AWS infrastructure ensuring high availability across EC2, RDS, S3, and supporting services.
• ▹Migrated services including RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch/Logstash from Windows to Linux servers, reducing licensing costs and improving reliability.
• ▹Implemented monitoring solutions for Windows and Linux servers.
• ▹Conducted vulnerability assessments and applied patches, contributing to successful SOC 2 compliance.
• ▹Founded and led a biweekly DevOps meeting series, organizing project collaboration sessions, demos, and guest speakers.

Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid)

• ▹Developed and deployed new CRM features using C# and React.
• ▹Transitioned legacy ASP.NET Razor pages to React, modernizing the application interface.
• ▹Trained and served as primary technical resource for a team of 5 offshore contractors, supporting onboarding and daily development work.
• ▹Helped lead frontend Center of Practice meetings, facilitating knowledge sharing across the engineering org.
• ▹Introduced product demos into the development cycle, accelerating feedback loops and reducing development time.
• ▹Served as one of three frontend-focused engineers on a team of 10, owning the React layer of a CRM product used by thousands of nonprofits.

Lehi, UT

• ▹Took on junior software engineering tasks alongside QA duties, mentored by team leads and contributing bug fixes directly to Ruby on Rails and React codebases.
• ▹Executed comprehensive testing of APIs and backend microservices, ensuring robustness and reliability.

Indianapolis, IN

• ▹Ran quantum chemistry calculations on remote supercomputers using Gaussian 09/13, computing optimized energy structures of creatine kinase via SSH and HPC queue systems.
• ▹Wrote Bash, Python, and Perl scripts to process tens to thousands of Gaussian input files in bulk, automating edits, math operations, and data extraction that would have taken weeks manually.
• ▹Contributed to a publication analyzing computational methods for molecular structure optimization.