Salt Lake City, UT
twenty years in software development and project management. Most recently, I'm fond of working with Python, Go and generative AI.
Software Architect | Sep 2022 – Current, 2 years 1 month
At Harbor I helped tackle many of their data problems. Integrating data from disparate vendor systems into actionable dashboards.
Created a searchable directory of clinical partners for their insurance plan launch.
Designed and implemented a rules based engine to detect health conditions of their members in real time.
Implemented generative AI solutions to extract structed data from clinical documents to help the care team better understand the health state of their patient panel.
Staff Engineer | Feb 2022 – Sep 2022, 7 months
Contributed to the core Cedar Pay product helping to integrate insurer and HSA data.
Senior Data Engineer | Nov 2020 – Feb 2022, 1 year 3 months
Podium's mission is to provide everything local business needs to succeed. I joined the Data Engineering team to help scale their analytics pipelines serving internal and external stakeholders. Used Python to build an execution engine that ran and monitored scheduled data transformation processes with multiple source and target data systems.
Senior Software Developer | Jun 2020 – Oct 2020, 4 months
Joined Chargeback to help protect retailer merchant accounts from the onerous review process and penalties caused by credit card chargebacks. Helped build a system that could accept rules defined by subject matter experts to process events that occurred during the lifecycle of the chargeback process and a flexible storage system that could store, search and transform the disparate data based on the defined rules.
Senior Software Developer | Apr 2018 – Jun 2020, 2 years 2 months
OODA's mission was to transform the patient medical billing experience into a consolidated and modern retail experience. Joined the team as an early engineer. I focused on helping them build their electronic medical claims processing system. Chiefly used Python in containerized Kubernetes to deploy services onto their platform. This was a great challenge to learn about the intricacies of electronic claims data flows and transactional systems. Accuracy was critical as it had significant impact on patient's seeing the correct charges on their bills.
Senior Software Developer | Oct 2016 – Apr 2018, 1 year 6 months
Nuvi's mission was to help companies monitor and protect their brands on social media through the use of analytics. I worked on their backend team writing containerized message queue processing services in Go. I also helped build the second generation of their analytics engine.
Senior Software Developer | Apr 2014 – Sep 2016, 2 years 5 months
Senior Software Developer | Nov 2013 – Apr 2014, 5 months
I focused on building data extraction from source systems and integration with the data warehouse. This work ranges from talking to hadoop to traditional dbms systems and on to third party api extraction. Used Python and MySQLSenior Software Engineering Manager | Jul 2011 – Mar 2013, 1 year 8 months
nPario is a Big Data startup that acquired Inquiro Group in 2011.
Managed their largest client relationship delivering custom software solutions for large scale custom search marketing platform. Responsible for all aspects of the customer relationship from defining new opportunities to project execution. Interacted with customers at the director and VP level. Those interactions revolved around identifying new opportunities, budgets, product requirements, roadmap and search marketing campaign management. Managed a team of thirty developers, QA engineers and analysts.
Software Engineering Manager | Feb 2009 – Aug 2011, 2 years 6 months
Oversaw the production of software project implementation and quality assurance.
Software Engineering Manager | Feb 2009 – Aug 2011, 2 years 6 months
Inquiro Group provides search marketing insights across organic and paid search channels to advertisers and agencies.
Lead Software Developer | May 2004 – Jan 2007, 2 years 8 months
GKMC is a technology development lab established by the University of Utah with emphasis in the application of data mining techniques to business.
University of UtahB.S. Computer Science | Jan 2000 - Aug 2005
jiffyAn image & gif captioning web service. Written in Go. Hosted on AWS Lambda & API Gateway.
Personal Resume Website (this page)Built using the Gatsby JS static site generator. Hosted on AWS S3 & Cloudfront using Terraform to manage the buckets, Cloudfront distributions and ACM SSL Certs. Deploys initiated on MR merge from Gitlab CI runner.
plantsqlDatabse schema extractor used to draw ER diagrams for Postgres of MySQL databases. Written in Go. Writes PlantSQL directive & C4 styles.