Resume

Software & Cloud Engineer

Skills

Languages & FrameworksJavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Node.js, React, Express, C#, .NET, SQL, Bash, PowerShell, HTML5, CSS3
Infrastructure & DataAWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, EBS), Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Linux, Windows Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch/ELK, New Relic, CloudWatch

Experience

Lead DevOps Engineer · PERQ

11/2025 – Present

Indianapolis, IN (Remote)

  • ▹Built a React/TypeScript triage tool backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB that turns raw query dumps into a rule-based visual UI, replacing manual review of query results.
  • ▹Established company-wide standards for AI-assisted development from scratch, covering repo structure, project templates, documentation, and CI validation gates.
  • ▹Upgraded PostgreSQL 13 to 18 across every environment via PowerShell and Node.
  • ▹Encrypted roughly 20 previously unencrypted RDS PostgreSQL databases.
  • ▹Migrated AWS access from long-lived IAM user keys to EC2 instance profiles, eliminating static credentials and the rotation overhead that came with them.
  • ▹Built an automated backup process for production sites in support of disaster recovery.
  • ▹Upgraded the Windows EC2 fleet from Server 2019 to 2025 via CloudFormation.
  • ▹Migrated EBS volumes from gp2 to gp3, improving IOPS performance and reducing storage costs.
  • ▹Own all Jenkins build and deploy pipelines across environments.

DevOps Engineer · Bloomerang

10/2021 – 10/2025

Indianapolis, IN (Remote)

  • ▹First DevOps hire. Started the team from scratch and grew it to 8, establishing the company's cloud engineering practice across tooling, infrastructure as code, and deployment.
  • ▹Unified QA and production deployment procedures into a single GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with Terraform and blue-green deploys.
  • ▹Rewrote deploy scripts to run concurrently by server type. Deploys dropped from roughly 3 hours to under 90 minutes.
  • ▹Automated full environment provisioning in Terraform. Standing up an environment went from 2+ weeks of manual work to minutes.
  • ▹Migrated services including RabbitMQ and Logstash from Windows to Linux, reducing licensing costs and improving performance.
  • ▹Stood up monitoring across both Windows and Linux fleets.
  • ▹Conducted vulnerability scans and applied remediations, contributing to successful annual SOC 2 audits.
  • ▹Founded and ran biweekly DevOps collaboration sessions featuring group project work, demos, and guest speakers.

Software Engineer · Bloomerang

02/2019 – 10/2021

Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid)

  • ▹One of three frontend-leaning fullstack engineers on a team of 10, building and shipping CRM features in C# and React for a product used by thousands of nonprofits.
  • ▹Ported legacy ASP.NET Razor pages over to React.
  • ▹Go-to technical resource and onboarding lead for 5 offshore contractors.
  • ▹Co-led frontend Center of Practice meetings to spread knowledge across engineering.
  • ▹Pushed product demos into the dev cycle, which tightened feedback loops and got features out faster.

QA Engineer · Mx Technologies

09/2018 – 01/2019

Lehi, UT

  • ▹Took on junior engineering work alongside QA, mentored by the leads, landing bug fixes directly into Ruby on Rails and React codebases.
  • ▹Tested APIs and backend microservices.

Undergraduate Researcher · Pu Research Group, Indiana University

01/2015 – 09/2018

Indianapolis, IN

  • ▹Ran quantum chemistry calculations on remote supercomputers with Gaussian 09/13, computing optimized structure energies of creatine kinase over SSH and HPC job queues.
  • ▹Wrote scripts to batch-process tens to thousands of Gaussian input files, handling edits, calculations, and data extraction.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in General Studies, Minors in Computer Science & Mathematics

Indiana University

2020

Certificate in Full Stack Web Development, MERN Stack Focus

V School

2018