Seasoned software architect and technical leader with a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge solutions across diverse industries for over 17 years. Excels at conceptualizing and delivering on ambitious platforms that integrate emerging technologies and demand robust architectures. Skilled at managing high-stakes initiatives, aligning cross functional teams, and driving quality through principled software-engineering practices. Consistently demonstrates the ability to innovate, optimize legacy systems, and maintain a strong customer focus. Adapts quickly to new technologies and domains while ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Ability to drive significant improvements in development speed and operations. Rare blend of architecture, leadership, research, and operations acumen that scales far beyond the code.

★ Rapid Uptake: Nearly two decades delivering high-quality software across many industries. Skilled in Go, C#, Python, shell, containerization, JavaScript, SQL, Rust. Strong Linux/GNU knowledge. Quickly learn new languages and systems.

★ Customer Focus: Fix issues causing customer churn. Implement monitoring to identify problems. Automate manual processes to improve eciency and reliability.

★ Technical Leadership: Set technical direction, scope work, and manage complex problems spanning the organization. Drive improvements in development speed and operations. Advocate for engineering excellence. Serve as acting PM/EM when needed.

★ Creative Problem Solving: Create deterministic code-container fingerprinting for replayable builds, release chains, and rollbacks. Optimize GPU scheduling and utilization for machine learning. Conduct original research on compact spatial partitioning systems.

★ Scalable Systems Development: Build frameworks orchestrating containers at scale. Integrate tax software handling billions in IRS payments. Create CICD processes. Deep understanding of testing, staging, production, and maintenance.

★ Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with global teams. Mentor engineers to increase impact. Contribute to a positive and productive culture. Responsive to production incidents. Proactively improve systems based on customer feedback.

★ Legacy System Optimization: Restore and optimize critical legacy systems. Identify and fix vulnerabilities. Diagnose and resolve challenging bugs. Avoid refactors lacking clear value.

★ Architectural Expertise: Design APIs, development workflows, and scalable systems. Solve complex technical problems.