Professional Summary

Dynamic Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), specializing in open-source, hybrid cloud solutions with integrated ML and analytics. Proven technical leader and hands-on developer with track record in driving AI adoption, leading technical conversations, and delivering impactful solutions using Agile methodologies.

Professional Experience

Senior Technical Staff Member

MultiCloud Platforms, IBM Automation | Current

  • Key contributor on MultiCloud SaaS Platform (MCSP) PayGo and usage metering solution; enabling IBM to effectively deliver software on AWS and Azure.
  • Developed innovative QuikBoard webpage reducing MCSP on-boarding time by ~40-50%; validated prototype delivered in five days via 3.8k lines of Typescript/React/Redux code.
  • Created a 'Slack Simulator' app via MERN Stack (Mongo, Express, React, Node); MCSP example service used for testing and best practices, was also adopted by the IBM Concert product team.
  • Owner and maintainer of IBM OnePlatform Garage; an IBM developer resource for driving development, deployment, and operational efficiency across delivery models Client-managed and SaaS Software.

Chief Programmer, Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM Red Hat Marketplace (RHM), IBM Automation | 2021 – Present

  • Spearheaded development of multi-award-winning commerce platform, impacting over $20M in the pipeline.
  • Led cross-squad coding practices and standardization, serving as the central authority for decision-making across the organization.
  • Managed performance optimization for the platform, achieving up to 89% reduction in mean latency for key user actions and enhancing API response times by up to 85%.
  • Authored and maintained over 120K lines of production-ready code in TypeScript, React, and Node.js for RHM commerce pipeline; averaged 800 Github contributions per year over the last 4 years.

Senior Software Engineer

IBM Financial Crimes Insights | 2019 – 2021

  • Led development of Transaction List Screening (TLS), a machine learning, Python-based solution for financial institutions to lower their sanctions risk.
  • Transformed artifacts from a large customer PoC into a fully developed product, generating $7M in revenue within one year.
  • Implemented ML solutions with model explainability using Python, Flask, Pandas, Sklearn, MongoDB, and Kubernetes.

Senior Software Engineer

IBM DevOps Insights | 2011 – 2019

  • Created innovative GitHub integration for surfacing defect likelihood in files, commits and pull requests.
  • Developed base framework using Python, JavaScript, REST API, Apache Kafka, Spark, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Partnered with North Carolina State University (NCSU) Data Science Professor Dr. Tim Menzies and his top students.
  • Mined over 10k of the top github.com repositories to produce a vast number of analytics.
  • Created Elasticsearch data lake and a platform for IBM Extreme Blue Teams and NCSU Interns to produce groundbreaking ICSE papers.