Education

University of Texas at Tyler

Master of Science, Industrial Engineering, 2015

The Pennsylvania State University

Bachelor of Science, Linguistics, 2011

The Pennsylvania State University

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, 2011

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Payments Infrastructure | PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

September 2024 to Present | Los Angeles, CA

Founding engineer for Capital One DataBolt payments tokenization.

• Built licensing, authentication, and partner onboarding APIs in Go and Kubernetes hosting infrastructure for Capital One DataBolt Tokenization.

Fractional CTO, AI Adoption | Io Pictures Corporation

May 2024 to August 2025 | Los Angeles, CA

Fractional CTO at independent motion picture distributor building internal software systems for rights, inventory, vendor accounts, payments, and digital distribution.

• Built rights, clearance, and inventory database for title metadata, chain of title, private holdings, territory windows, and delivery requirements.
• Built authentication, vendor account, and ledger workflows for acquisitions, payments, royalty tracking, and distributor settlements.
• Built search, storage, and digital distribution tooling for title lookup, asset tracking, metadata packaging, QC, and submission to Tubi, Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Software Engineering Manager, Infrastructure | Cubic Transportation Systems

October 2021 to April 2024 | San Diego, CA

Led a global team shipping fare systems for DC Metro, NYC MTA, BART, LA Metro, and Boston MBTA.

• Built cloud infrastructure with Terraform, AWS, and GitHub Actions.
• Won multiple company awards for engineering excellence.
• Deployed mTLS security with Istio on Kubernetes.

Lead Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure | Cubic Transportation Systems

October 2019 to October 2021 | San Diego, CA

Built the "Cubic AI Chatbot" letting riders check card balances by phone and text, plus ML pipelines for fare optimization.

• Deployed chatbot on Azure with natural language processing.
• Built CI/CD for 20 Java apps with Jenkins, Docker, Helm, Vault, and Terraform.
• Built serverless pipelines with AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure | Cubic Transportation Systems

May 2017 to October 2019 | Washington, DC

First DevOps hire. Transformed legacy infrastructure to containers and cloud for fare systems serving 10M+ daily riders.

• Introduced Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker to the organization.
• Built CI/CD for embedded fare devices with Jenkins and Wind River Linux.
• Passed PCI, SOC2, ISO, and SOX audits.
• Built Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure | EPAM Systems

May 2016 to April 2017 | Washington, DC

Promoted to senior backend engineer at digital UX agency building apps for enterprise clients.

• Built "Fannie Mae Collateral Underwriter" Angular web app.
• Built "Lockheed Martin Intranet" on headless Drupal.
• Built "NY Fashion Week 2015" mobile app.
• Wrote PostgreSQL migrations with Liquibase.
• Deployed microservices with Docker and Kubernetes 1.2.

Software Engineer, Infrastructure | EPAM Systems

May 2015 to April 2016 | Washington, DC

Backend engineer on full-stack team at digital UX agency building mobile apps and e-commerce platforms.

• Built Poison Control mobile app.
• Built Canadian Tire e-commerce store.
• Built U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobile app.
• Moved PostgreSQL database to multi-tenant setup with zero downtime.
• Worked with Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, VMware ESXi, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Cisco ASA firewalls.

Brands

Io Pictures Corporation

May 2024 to August 2025 | Los Angeles, CA

Fractional CTO at independent motion picture distributor building internal software systems for rights, inventory, vendor accounts, payments, and digital distribution.

• Built rights, clearance, and inventory database for title metadata, chain of title, private holdings, territory windows, and delivery requirements.
• Built authentication, vendor account, and ledger workflows for acquisitions, payments, royalty tracking, and distributor settlements.
• Built search, storage, and digital distribution tooling for title lookup, asset tracking, metadata packaging, QC, and submission to Tubi, Amazon, Apple, and Google.

The Archive of American Radio, Inc.

June 2025 to Present | Los Angeles, CA

Founded California public benefit nonprofit and built the world's largest, most complete collection of historical radio broadcasts and sound recordings.

• Built data processing pipelines and Cloudflare Workers APIs.
• Built storage and catalog workflows with Cloudflare D1, R2, Turso, Supabase, and Vercel.
• Developed custom OpenAI models for metadata extraction and search.

Skills

• Languages: Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, SQL, Bash, Rust
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Compute: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP GKE
• Storage: AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Azure Blob, Redis, Kafka
• Network: Istio, cert-manager, mTLS, Cloudflare Workers, API Gateway, Load Balancing
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Turso, Cloudflare D1, Supabase, DynamoDB
• Infrastructure: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Pulumi
• AI/ML: OpenAI API, LangChain, Vector Databases, RAG, Embeddings
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, PagerDuty
• Security: Vault, OAuth2, JWT, PCI-DSS, SOC2, Zero Trust