About Me:
Product-driven software engineer based in beautiful Wilmington, NC. Passionate about building software solutions that allow users to spend less time tinkering with platforms and more time creating the things they love. Documentation evangelist with a focus on building human-readable systems and maintainable code bases. Podcast lover, Apple enthusiast, occasional gardener, and an aspirational cook.
python
postgres
markdown
django
apple
gardening
Experience:
Software Engineer
nCino
2024 - Present
Designed and implemented a cloud based credit monitoring service which extracts, normalizes, and scores millions of Salesforce records on a daily basis. Trail-blazed a new tech stack that enabled the development of a product previously impossible to build with our existing patterns.Developed a new application which distilled a process that previously took 100+ clicks into a single interface. Coordinated with numerous stakeholders across the company to facilitate adoption of new technology. Delivered one of the company’s first Generative AI features under an incredibly short deadline
Founding Engineer
eMunah
2023 - Present
Bootstrapped our backend service suite, which in addition to our core offerings, included authentication, feature flagging, and permissioning. Advocated for a balance between incurring the right amount of tech debt to enable rapid iteration while not creating a pit of mud, slowing future development. Drafted our initial development guidelines and patterns with an emphasis on simple, domain driven code which delivers product value quickly.
Associate Software Engineer
nCino
2022 - 2024
Lead engineering efforts to bring our flagship products, Document Manager and Smart Checklist, to WCAG 2.1 compliance. Overhauled internal template for API and Service Documentation, used across the entire engineering organization. Provided key contributions to nCino's next generation work management solution, Priority Manager. Migrated and refactored teams' pipeline to Github Actions to provide greater visibility into the CI process. Mentored an intern who eventually accepted a full time offer.
Graduate Research Assistant
UNCW - Mixed Reality Lab
2021 - 2022
Manage a six person agile development time, including mentoring 4 new developers. Provide guidance on the Unity XR framework as well as data collection within virtual reality experiments. Manage the server and all active developer tools essential to day-to-day operation (Wiki, API’s, Homepage).
Software Engineering Intern
Fidelity Investments
2021 - 2021
Created a proof of concept developer tool which substantially tightened the feedback loop between my team and other internal customers. Worked within an existing code base to create solutions which matched stylistically with my teams’ prior work. Technologies utilized: Java, Maven, AngularJS, AG-Grid, Windows Batch Scripting.
Application Development Intern
Metlife Insurance
2020 - 2020
Created a developer tool to aid the ingestion of external data into a single standardized internal database. This tool utilized python to extract, clean, and format data from flat files and then generate formatted non-xml bcp format files. The system included revision history as well as a per source file generation and bulk conversion of multiple external sources at once. Technologies utilized: SQLServer, Python, BCP, and Openpyxl.