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An engineering leader passionate about the intersection of technology and business.
Current role: Software Engineering Manager. Two teams merged into feature pods built for agentic AI coding. Velocity 50 to 100 story points.
Learned: Tooling gains only reach delivery if the team structure lets them.
Claude Code released. Rebuilt how I read and write code.
Scaled to a second team. 5 to 10 direct reports in a year, driving our largest customer's rollout.
Learned: Understand what a customer needs, then deliver it as a system.
Certified ScrumMaster. AWS Developer Associate renewed.
Learned: How to lead an agile team, and current cloud practice.
Promoted to Software Engineering Manager. Returned to point-of-sale team and converted it from application-specific to full-stack.
Learned: Fewer barriers between teams and codebases means more throughput.
Harvard Business School Online CORe Certificate. And the release of ChatGPT.
Learned: Broader business fundamentals, and a better alternative to Stack Overflow.
Promoted to senior software engineer and selected for an internal architecture team. Microservices built and integrated into the platform.
Learned: Get up to speed on a new codebase fast; communicate across teams.
AWS Developer Associate. Azure Developer Associate renewed.
Learned: Reinforced cloud best practices.
Hired as a software engineer at PAR Technology. Started on customer-facing point-of-sale application team.
Learned: What a scrum team looks like inside a SaaS business with hundreds of engineers.
Azure Developer Associate.
Learned: Cloud development best practices.
Software engineer at Explorica. Scrum team of four serving the whole company, in education travel.
Learned: End-to-end application ownership.
B.S. Computer Engineering, minor in Mathematics, and varsity soccer at Union College.
Learned: Balancing responsibilities.
Top senior project in computer engineering. A system to teach vocational skills to people with disabilities, in a greenhouse.
Learned: Build technology that helps people.
Embedded microcontrollers lab technician. Electrical Engineering Department, Union College.
Learned: Teaching tests your comprehension.
Activities assistant for people with disabilities at Seven Hills. Landscaping at Flynn Landscaping.
Learned: Work hard, for other people who need help.