10+ Years Full Stacking

My room mate at college introduced me to Linux and the rest was history. I joined one of his teams and I have not stopped coding ever since.

Engineering full-time since 2013 and part-time since 2005. It is no wonder that my GitHub contributions total 2700+.

5 Years Leadership

I do not shy away from mentoring, especially if it is the fastest way to cultivate the team and meet our goals. One time, I noticed that an algorithm was not correct and the entire team had failed 2 times. Intervention was required. I chose to pair program directly. The language was new to me but the algorithm was not. One hour later we had overcome the hurdle. Proper detection of team frictions is important.

Security and Testing

Optimizing too soon can cause a project to incur unnecessary overheads. I foresee these and I often organize and assign projects with attention for security and testing. This means that if we aren't a TDD shop, we will have to meet a deadline in time for testing. And tasks that are most likely to increase vulnerability vectors will include security analysis as part of the roadmap.

History of Success

From optimizing code to merging products, I have done it or managed it. I reduced cost of entry for customers by $1000 each. I spotted a way to simplify infrastructure, decrease technical debt, cut costs for customers, and unlock potential. Basically a super win all around.

I understand the full software product life cycle (SDLC).

Elevator Pitch

I am a software engineer with expertise in building and benchmarking recommendation systems. During my master's degree project, I developed and tested multiple recommendation systems using microservices and Docker.

I have worked for both large corporations, such as Dell EMC with over 150k employees, and small start-ups of varying sizes. My experience spans across different industries, including agriculture (Fort Supply Technologies, LLC), data storage (Dell EMC), and education (BYU's Independent Study).

Some notable projects I have worked on include preparing for and recovering from data center crashes and hacks, building a custom code linter for my team to save time, and creating a system to simulate user experiences with thousands of virtual machines. No joke, my re-usable code stood up thousands of VMs at a time in order to a data center fleet of new and old hard drives. Additionally, I have optimized queries and code to significantly improve the loading speed of reports and pages for end-customers.

I am well-versed in using git and find it to be a seamless tool for version control. I am proficient in using git rebase and prefer the command line interface for working with git.

On a personal note, I have developed a custom ZSH terminal theme that I use regularly. Opening a terminal is almost always the first things I do when I boot up my computer.

Interests

Current

Rust is such an interesting language and a breath of fresh air. It has been a while since I dabbled in C-like languages but Rust really gives me hope in the future. Huge performance, easy to learn and performant. The future is now!

I love my programmable keyboard. Feel free to view my current keyboard layout.

Flutter has proven to be everything I wanted in a cross-platform app framework! I used it to build an education app for teachers (in private beta). Connecting it to Google Firebase was a breeze. All in all, alpha version was ready in 8 hours, beta in 20 after many quick iterations and new features. I just need to generalize it a bit and monetize now.

Off the clock joys

Piano and foreign languages continue to engage me. After a decent stint of 50 hour weeks, I finally had time to take some time off. And of course I played some piano.

Off-season travel is super fun. Carlsbad caverns blew me away. San Diego zoo and hiking are go-to favorites.