About Me
I consider myself a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, though similar titles might include DevOps Engineer, Operations Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). I have over eight years of experience building and managing deployment pipelines, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure. In my work, I focus on empowering engineers and cultivating a strong DevOps culture: from writing infrastructure as code to creating universal Helm charts, quickstart templates, and automation workflows that let teams launch and manage microservices independently.
I’m also passionate about leveraging AI to improve development workflows, whether generating full test suites, accelerating coding tasks, or building automation tools that help other departments work more efficiently. Outside of cloud and DevOps work, I enjoy web development using Go, Ruby, and Jekyll/Liquid, experimenting with new ideas, and building projects for learning and fun.
Languages & Frameworks
Go, Terraform, Yaml/JSON, GitHub/GitLab API, AWS-SDK and AWS CLI, Ruby, Bash, Git, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS
Software, Operating Systems, & Tools
macOS, Linux, Amazon Web Servcies (AWS), Kubernetes/EKS/ECS, Google Suite, VS Code, Datadog, Helm, Docker, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform
Other
Self-motivated, loves to learn and learns quickly, detail-oriented, dedicated organized, problem solving skills, agile methodologies, collaboration kills, pair programming, communication skills, strong work-ethic, time management skills, leadership skills
Experience
- Dispatch (September 2020–present), Bloomington, MN
- Lead Cloud Operations Engineer (April 2025-present)
- Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (March 2022–April 2025)
- Cloud Operations Engineer (September 2020–March 2022)
- SportsEngine (May 2015–September 2020), Minneapolis, MN
- Platform Operations Engineer (June 2017–September 2020)
- Junior Software Engineer (January 2016–May 2017)
- Software Engineer Intern (May 2015–August 2015)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (May 2014–December 2014)
- Software Developer and Researcher
Tech Talks
- DevOpsDays MSP 2024: Agile Vows: Sharing DevOps and Wedding Planning Principles (slides, recording – hopefully someday)
- DevOpsDays MSP 2019: What We Learn from Reviewing Others’ Work (slides, recording)
- DevOpsDays MSP 2017: DevOps in Education: A Virtually Non-Existent Course (slides, recording)
Education
- Graduate from the University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM)
- B.A. in Computer Science
- Graduated with High Distinction
- Recipient of the Scholar of the College award
- Recipient of the UMM Morris scholarship
- Dean’s List for four years
- Achievements during college:
- Gold Star of Distinction on my Senior Seminar presentation (paper, slides)
- 3rd place in the 2015 Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition (DKC3)
- 3rd place in the Best Undergraduate Paper from the 2015 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) (paper, slides)
- 4th place in the 2015 UMM Annual Sorting Competition
- Presented in the UMM Undergraduate Research Symposium 2015
- URSA Major Developer
- Research assistant for Clojure research