About Me
I consider myself a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, but other similar titles may include a DevOps Engineer, Operations Engineer, or a Site Reliability Engineer (S.R.E.). I have over five years of experience working with deployment pipelines, APIs, and cloud-based infrastructure. Outside of project planning, mentoring, and writing infrastructure as code, I also focus on cultivating a DevOps environment within my product and engineering teams. I also dabble in website development in Ruby on Rails and Jekyll/Liquid. For more information on my work experience, please visit my LinkedIn.
Languages & Frameworks
Ruby, Terraform, Git, Bash, Go, Yaml/JSON, Ruby on Rails, Ansible, HTML/CSS, Jekyll/Liquid, Javascript, GitHub/GitLab API, AWS-SDK and AWS CLI
Software, Operating Systems, & Tools
macOS, Linux, Google Suite, VS Code, Amazon Web Services, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS, Datadog, Digital Ocean, New Relic, Splunk, 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