Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Kalepa March 2026 - Present

• Ongoing

Sabbatical, December 2024 - December 2025

• Contributed to open source projects
• Open-sourced multiple personal projects related to Python GUI development

Senior Software Engineer, SIRUM January 2024 - October 2024

• Developed full-stack solutions to enable pharmacy operations
• Analyzed and implemented solutions for observability of error conditions in an AI driven automated conveyor system

Cyber Security Engineer VI, Millennium Corporation June 2018 - October 2023

• Researched, advised on, and productionized new and emerging cyber security attack vectors.
• Developed and deployed tools and processes supporting realistic threat-emulation engagements across a wide variety of systems under test.
• Participated in working groups at the federal level to categorize and create testing strategies for emerging AI/machine learning oriented threats.
• Actively deployed hardware, software, and hybrid attacks against live targets during hands-on engagements.
• Developed and taught Programming and Security related courses domestically and internationally.
• Projects: Cutting edge DMA side-channel attack, Custom and repeatable compilation toolchains targeting esoteric environments, Led student-team to develop custom MITM attack vector for easy deployment, Taught cyber security certification courses, Custom and ad-hoc tooling to implement cyber attacks, evaluated myriad physical and digital assets for security weaknesses

Engineering Manager, Yelp Nov 2015 - March 2018

• Managed 12+ engineers working on Yelp’s business owner products. Managing teams responsible for mobile apps, websites, and APIs.
• Led cross-team and cross-platform projects collaborating with PMs, engineers, sales, legal, and business development teams.
• Built new engineering teams focused on business-critical paths. Collaborated with sales and marketing organizations to launch products supporting new customer segments, specifically multi-location, mid market, and national businesses.
• Projects: Data aggregation and visualization, new advertising products (Yelp core offerings), improved marketing experiences for national brands.

Software Developer, Yelp Nov 2012 - Nov 2015

• Key engineer working on Yelp’s consumer web products, developed backends, apis, javascript, and frontend, partnering with designers and product managers
• First transfer to embed with Yelp’s first remote engineering team during its largest corporate acquisition. Selected to champion engineering excellence and best practices, along with helping to grow the team.
• Worked closely with Hamburg and San Francisco organizations to facilitate better communication and improve collaboration between the teams. Specifically coaching peers on written communication, refactoring, code review, and engineering process.
• Projects: Simpler business categorization UI, Data aggregation services, "new business" classification, local ads middleware and frontend (Yelp core product), Business Details UI refactor (Yelp core product), Built Yelp's Menus product integrating data from multiple partners, Write a Review UI

Lead Developer, Remark Media (formerly HSW International) 2008 - 2012

• Joined as the 6th engineer, progressed into leadership and helped grow the team to ~30 engineers
• Mentored new hires, planned and executed large projects and maintenance of legacy systems
• Technologies: PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, Memcached, Zend Framework, AWS, Less, Backbone

Education

• Undergraduate studies in Biology and Philosophy, with a strong emphasis on logic, metaphysics, and complex biological systems.