Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

August 2022 - Present

Sift is the AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. Sift has deep investments in machine learning and user identity, a data network scoring 1 trillion events per year, and a commitment to long-term customer success empower more than 700 customers to grow fearlessly. Brands including DoorDash, Yelp, and Poshmark rely on Sift to unlock growth and deliver seamless consumer experiences.

• Owned the largest company database, Bigtable, which stored petabytes of data and processed hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Handled multiple incidents requiring data recovery as well as table/cluster migrations.
• Lead a multi-phase secrets migration from salt pillars with GPG keys to Hashicorp Vault with auto-key rotation.
• Re-configured the access control of Bigtable, Snowflake, and general GCP IAM to better integrate with our SSO provider and adhere to least privilege.
• Over the course of several years, contributed millions in annual cloud cost savings by optimizing systems.

Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

October 2020 - July 2022

• Migrated an expensive multi-terabyte self-managed Memcached GCE Cluster to GCP managed Memorystore cluster while also saving costs.
• Coordinated the upgrade process from Ubuntu 16 Xenial to Ubuntu 20 Focal across the entire engineering organization.
• Contributed to the hiring process, mentored an intern, and handled numerous onboarding/offboarding events.
• Participated in SOC2 interviews and ISO 27001 audit evidence gathering.

Software Engineer, Site Reliability

June 2020 - September 2020

NS8 safeguards online businesses against advertising fraud, transaction fraud, and poor site performance. NS8 protects against threats and offers better insight into real customers by utilizing behavioral analytics, real-time user scoring, and global monitoring. Available through easy-to-install plugins on multiple platforms, NS8's solutions empower merchants to quickly minimize risk, better automate fraud management and realize savings throughout the customer lifecycle.

• Departed for no reason other than the dissolution of the company due to internal legal issues.
• Improved Honeycomb OpenTelemetry integration to have complete and accurate tracing to assist with incidents and debugging.
• Refactored AWS IAM roles and groups in terraform to restrict access and permit cross account resource access.
• Monitored and initiated multiple weekly deployments.
• Identified and worked to remedy numerous security risks found in our public API.

Co-Founder

May 2018 - April 2020

Labor Saver LLC provides smart business software and hardware solutions such as remote call buttons, online booking software, and more! Labor Savers innovative solutions help business operations dial in on what matters most, their guests. Bring a new level of service to your organization and let customers know they come first.

• Built in its entirety, multiple cloud connected products that still serve customers today.
• Designed, programmed, and manufactured RF 900MHz call buttons and temperature sensors including their PCBs and procured the various components to assemble.
• Utilized CircleCI to test and deploy node.js code to GCP App Engine to manage and serve requests.
• Produced intuitive dashboards and configuration pages to allow customers to monitor and customize their deployments along with SMS and email notification options.
• Created payment gateways integrated with PayPal and Stripe to both charge customers and process payments on their behalf.
• Implemented a scheduling system with fully customizable checkout workflows to empower customers with easy to use booking software.

Mechanic Manager

March 2016 - August 2019

Lokomotion is a family fun park with Go Karts, Mini Golf, Bumper Boats, Lazer Tag, & Spin Zone. Specializing in birthday parties, company picnics, & family get togethers. Northwest Arkansas' Favorite fun destination for every occasion. The only Go Karts & Bumper Boats in the area along with two 18-hole miniature golf courses.

• Received on the job training as well as Honda TACS training in order to learn small engine and go kart repair.
• Can completely disassemble/reassemble a small engine or go kart.
• Acquired skills for electrical wiring, system diagnosis, welding, and others.
• Became the manager overseeing procurement of parts, budget, apprentice training, as well as making impactful operation decisions.

Bachelor's In Computer Science
Minor in Information Systems

University of Arkansas Fall 2016 to Fall 2019

www.uark.edu