Staff Engineer | Northwind DevicesJan 2025 – Present

• Led the design of Python/FastAPI services and AI-agent workflows that generate, run, and report on automated tests across the engineering organization.
• Built stateful orchestration in LangChain and LangGraph with explicit workflow states, tool calls, retries, fallbacks, and failure isolation.
• Developed AI agents with Google ADK and connected LLM capabilities to existing backend and automation services.
• Added human-in-the-loop review so AI-generated test plans and actions are approved before they reach CI/CD.
• Created evaluation and regression suites in PyTest that score AI outputs, API behavior, and end-to-end workflows on every change.
• Designed REST integration services linking AI workflows to test infrastructure and downstream engineering systems.
• Scaled high-concurrency services with asyncio, aiohttp, and httpx to support growing AI and automation workloads.
• Deployed services across AWS and GCP, including ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, GKE, Cloud Run, and BigQuery.
• Implemented authentication, authorization, input validation, structured logging, audit trails, and alerting for production AI services.
• Wired automated validation into Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI for gated builds and verified deployments.
• Drove architecture reviews, RFCs, code reviews, and production-readiness checks.
• Partnered with QA, platform, firmware, and product teams to turn requirements into dependable AI features.

Staff Engineer | Northwind Devices

• Built asynchronous FastAPI services (Python 3.11) that ingest health and firmware telemetry from connected consumer devices at scale.
• Split the platform into telemetry, firmware, authentication, and device-sync microservices serving thousands of concurrent connections, with storage in DynamoDB, S3, and PostgreSQL.
• Decoupled producers and consumers with MQTT, Kafka, and AWS IoT Core so processing stays reliable under burst traffic.
• Published versioned OpenAPI contracts for web, mobile, and cloud clients, secured with OAuth 2.0 and JWT.
• Set up CI/CD with linting, PyTest, multi-stage Docker builds, and Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch monitoring.
• Coached engineers on async design, testing strategy, and performance profiling.

Staff Engineer | Northwind Devices

• Created Python and Ansible services that provision and standardize environments, integrated with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.

Senior Python Developer / DevOps Engineer | Summit Financial GroupAug 2022 – Dec 2024

• Built a configuration-compliance platform of FastAPI microservices that checks large Hadoop clusters against internal standards.
• Automated validation runs, reports, and notifications with Ansible Tower, with PyTest coverage in CI/CD.
• Designed cluster monitoring with Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Grafana, including real-time dashboards and proactive alerts.
• Automated patching, replication, and scheduling with Ansible job templates and Terraform provisioning.

Senior Python Developer | Kinetic MotorsMar 2021 – Jul 2022

• Built GraphQL and Django microservices for a dynamic-pricing platform covering vehicles, service parts, and energy products.
• Extended Java/Spring Boot services and REST APIs alongside the Python stack, including business logic, data access, and validation.
• Connected Python and Java services through REST and GraphQL for pricing and parts workflows.
• Wrote concurrent data pipelines with asyncio and aiohttp, and moved long-running jobs to Celery workers.
• Built AWS Lambda and BigQuery services for a security-testing automation platform.
• Owned the team's CI/CD and infrastructure as code with Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform.

Senior Software Engineer (Python) | Meridian NetworksFeb 2017 – Feb 2021

• Built Django services for usage-based billing across compute, storage, and networking products.
• Moved monitoring and invoicing tools to React, GraphQL, and Django, and used R for usage forecasting.
• Kept CI/CD reliable with Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and Terraform; built metering APIs and usage reports.

Automation & DevOps Engineer | Crestline IT ServicesJun 2013 – Jan 2017

• Automated database and application refresh pipelines and data-migration tooling; built CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins.

Application Developer & Release Manager | Brightpath MobileJan 2010 – May 2013

• Built and released iOS and Android apps, and ran disaster recovery and application monitoring.

Database Administrator | Harbor Data SystemsJul 2007 – Dec 2009

• Administered production Oracle databases and applications, including cloning, patching, backup, and recovery.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Professional Certificate in Data Science

Certified Scrum Master

ITIL Foundation

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics Engineering | State Institute of Technology2007