03 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE PULL REQUEST
Engineering is a craft.
So is everything else.
I’m a San Francisco-based software engineer and the bassist in Minds Without a Face . The pets in the bullet points are mine.
I enjoy tinkering with hardware.
End-to-end ownership. Clear tradeoffs.
Mentoring engineers. Showing up for customers.
A LONG-RUNNING CURIOSITY
I’ve been coding for 22 years. In 2008, I won the Baldwin Wallace ACM High School Invitational. They gave me a Nintendo DS Lite.
04 / EXPERIENCE
View LinkedIn ↗A career of craft
From computer-security tools at NASA to product interfaces, revenue systems, and AI infrastructure.
Jan 2025 – Sep 2026WistiaCross-functional software engineer
Remote · Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Core member of Organize Manage team.
- Led a year-long overhaul of video sharing: a new sharing modal, expiring links, a redesigned visibility model, and a public API.
- Rebuilt the external video-library importer as a reliable, self-healing process for large migrations.
- Shipped the redesigned Content Library, including navigation, filtering, and library selection across creation and upload flows.
- Built folder-to-channel linking, including sync settings, plan-limit upgrade prompts, and tracking.
- Authored the AI-model client and fallback logic that keeps AI features running when one model is unavailable.
Jun 2017 – Jul 2024Hired, Inc.Staff software engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Built internal and revenue tools across the codebase.
- Developed admin interfaces, an internal email-annotation service for triage, and customer onboarding flows.
- Built browser-based device-detection algorithms to prevent account theft.
- Developed data synchronization services and APIs for Salesforce integration.
Jan 2012 – Jun 2017ScribdSoftware engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Generalist engineer developing backend, frontend, and internal tools for a large Ruby on Rails application.
Jun 2011 – Aug 2011MicrosoftSoftware design engineer in test intern
Redmond, Washington
- Worked with the Hyper-V Hypervisor Test Team.
- Developed a performance-testing suite to analyze the memory footprint of multiple virtualization components.
Jun 2010 – Aug 2010MicrosoftSoftware design engineer in test intern
Redmond, Washington
- Worked with the Technical Computing Cloud team.
- Developed test tools to collect and report relevant test information.
Jun 2009 – Aug 2009MicrosoftExplorer intern
Redmond, Washington
- Worked with the Exchange Customer Experience team.
- Developed utilities that let system administrators test off-site availability of mail services.
Jun 2008 – Aug 2008NASA Glenn Research CenterComputer Services intern
- Worked with Code VM in the Computer Services Department.
- Developed a web application to collect center-wide computer-security information.
05 / MUSIC
Musician, too.
I play bass in Minds Without a Face, a garage punk band. I like listening closely and knowing when to leave space.
Minds Without a Face