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Experience

Where I have worked

11 years across DevSecOps, data engineering, full-stack development, and community open source, from a school district's IT room to owning engineering standards for a global organization.

Professional

Roles

Most recent first.

  1. Jan 2026 - Present

    Lead DevSecOps Engineer

    Stryker · Remote

    Owns and evolves engineering standards across CI/CD, full-stack development, data architecture, and security operations for a cross-functional organization.

    • Owned and enforced CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, and PR governance across engineering teams
    • Architected enterprise-grade web applications using Granian, FastAPI, Next.js, React, and Node
    • Led an end-to-end security audit across 19 web applications, 250+ GitHub repositories, Databricks workspace bindings and principal permissions, and GitHub token scoping in response to a global security incident
    • Architected and managed Azure cloud infrastructure including Entra ID, Key Vault, IAM/RBAC, Front Door, VNets, NSGs, and Web Apps across environments
    • Set identity and access standards across Entra ID, GitHub, and Databricks, covering service principal governance, token scoping and rotation, role-based access, and least-privilege reviews
    • Mentored team members and guided partner teams through CI/CD, branching strategy, and documentation adoption
    • Served as DevSecOps subject matter expert across multiple business units

  2. Jan 2025 - Jan 2026

    Data Engineer

    Stryker · Remote

    Researched, designed, implemented, and maintained highly scalable data solutions.

    • Coordinated disaster recovery and security incident remediation initiatives
    • Created and managed a custom Python library that allows teams to share and maintain cross-functional code
    • Designed and created custom fuzzy matching algorithms
    • Led data migration efforts from legacy SQL servers to modern data platforms

  3. Oct 2021 - Jul 2022

    Sr. Full-Stack Developer

    Entertainment Works Inc. · Remote

    Assisted in programming and other IT needs as directed by the IT Director.

    • Performed penetration testing to identify and resolve security flaws
    • Programmed in HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript
    • Provided user management and support, including identifying and fixing identity and access management issues

  4. Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

    IT Assistant, Part-Time

    Lawrence Technological University, Office of the President · Southfield, Michigan

    Conducted data analysis, organized data, assisted professors, and provided technical help.

    • Assisted professors with performing research on various topics
    • Created large databases for significant amounts of data, and performed analysis and visualization to present clear and understandable insights
    • Provided technical support for professors and staff members

  5. Nov 2016 - Mar 2019

    IT Student Intern

    Bath Community Schools · Bath, Michigan

    Worked on, operated, administered, and installed new systems for the district, with on-call support as needed.

    • Prepared, repaired, researched, installed, and deployed new systems and computers
    • Provided support to instructors and staff members when needed
    • Provided on-call support via email and phone for time-sensitive needs

  6. Sep 2015 - May 2019

    IT Support Volunteer

    Computer Repair Clinic · Bath, Michigan

    Managed, documented, reported on, and repaired community members' devices, including phones, computers, laptops, and other hardware.

Open source and community

Beyond the day job

Mod development, upstream contributions, and a home lab that runs like production.

  1. Jun 2015 - Present

    Video Game Mod Development

    Community projects

    Creates, collaborates on, and maintains mods for video games in numerous programming languages.

    • Collaborated with multiple communities to create mods across a variety of games
    • Contributed to decision-making in steering councils for Minecraft mod development
    • Developed Minecraft mods in Java through community collaboration, accumulating over 500 million unique downloads

  2. Jun 2015 - Present

    Free Open-Source Software Contributor

    CPython, CrowdSec, Grafana, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Next.js, React

    Collaborates with large online communities in developing applications to further programming capabilities.

    • Contributed optimizations to Python's CPython interpreter in support of the Global Interpreter Lock removal and Free Threading parallelization
    • Contributed to Grafana, the live dashboard visualization web application
    • Contributed to Next.js and React among many web application development frameworks
    • Contributed to CrowdSec, the collaborative intrusion prevention system
    • Contributed to Home Assistant and Jellyfin, the self-hosted automation and media servers

  3. Ongoing

    Self-Hosted Infrastructure

    Home lab

    Designs and maintains an enterprise-scale home lab with dual 48U server racks.

    • Managed a Proxmox virtualization cluster across multiple nodes for high availability
    • Orchestrated meshed Docker container infrastructure using Portainer for centralized management and deployment