I am a technical leader obsessed with high performing teams and learning organizations with strong technical roots in distributed system architecture, platform engineering, and product development. I think a lot about outcomes, DevOps principles, and Systems Thinking.
Professional Experience
Inspiring and fostering a local community of creators.
Founder Aug 2022 - July 2024
I founded a space to foster a local community of makers: 3D printing, robotics, laser cutting, CNC, woodworking, and more.
Enabling production-grade cloud-native distributed edge infrastructure powering 5G.
Senior Engineering Manager: Container Infra & DevOps June 2021 - Aug 2022
- Delivered Kubernetes platform powering the 5G distributed edge (StarlingX)
- Led adoption of distributed build and CI architecture to support a 100+ member engineering org.
Algorithmia (acquired by DataRobot)
Empowering organizations to extract value from investments in AI, Machine Learning, and data science.
Director of Engineering: Infrastructure & Operations Oct 2019 - June 2021
- Delivered Kubernetes-based enterprise ML platform to Fortune 500 organizations
- Increased release engineering capabilities to support SaaS and Enterprise products
- Led center of excellence for the QA discipline and Operational Readiness for the engineering organization
- Responsible for Production Engineering of algorthmia.com including its SOC 2 compliance process
Director of Customer Engineering June 2018 - Oct 2019
- Built multi-disciplinary org responsible for customer lifecycle from pre-sales to delivery, education, support, and account growth going into $25M Series B
- Led architecture and development of cloud deployment platform for Fortune 500 organizations (AWS, Azure, GovCloud, C2S, Kubernetes, Python)
- Worked cross-org to drive a reorg (dissolving my own org, forming the new new Infra & Operations team)
Senior Software Engineer Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
- Designed and implemented ML platform (Scala, JS, MySQL, Rust, Docker)
- Architected a successful and transformational frontend rewrite (VueJS, NodeJS, Typescript)
- Built deployment automation to enable complex enterprise and government deployments (AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible)
Socrata (acquired by Tyler Technologies)
Empowering governments and their citizens with Open Data.
Software Engineer 2 (DevOps) Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
- Designed and built Azure provisioning and deployment automation
- Led the adoption of Docker for production services
- Authored Chef configuration management and created processes for maintaining distributed systems
- Implemented monitoring infrastructure (Sensu) across physical datacenters and Azure
- Drove operational requirements, hardware capacity planning, and deployment pipeline for a major rearchitecture
Empowering childcare owners to care more about children and less about paperwork.
Co-creator Jan 2012 - Jan 2019
- Started small business in Mexico to help government-subsidized daycares.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained a production Rails service
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer in Test 2 Jun 2011 - Mar 2013
Drove software distribution test strategy and security compliance for embedded devices using write-filters (System Center Configuration Manager)
Software Developer Engineering in Test Jan 2009 - Jun 2011
Developed Windows 7 storage certification tools relating to SSDs, Storage Controllers, and Data Integrity (Windows Storage & File Systems)
Projects
Are We Learning Yet? - Creator and co-maintainer
Cataloging the Rust-based Machine Learning ecosystem
Rust OSS Maintainer - Creator and maintainer
Maintain a variety of OSS Rust crates across multiple domains (CLI user experience, client libraries, OS utilities)
Education
Iowa State University - Graduated 2008 - B.S. in Computer Engineering
Tec de Monterrey - Abroad 2007 - Spanish (fluent) and Computer Engineering
