Hi, I’m a Software Engineer at PlanetScale.

For over 20 years, I’ve been a software engineer/architect for cloud services used by millions of developers.

More recently, if you’ve:

1. Pushed/Pulled a package from GitHub
2. Accepted a dependabot PR
3. Run workflows on GitHub Actions
4. Connected to a PlanetScale Database.

You’ve used code that I’ve written and services I’ve built.

Software Engineer at PlanetScale (May 2021 - Present)

• Multi-Factor Authentication for the masses on PlanetScale.com
• Connection Strings, implementing mysql password authentication support for PlanetScale Databases
• Zero down time Data Imports into PlanetScale
• ELT support for PlanetScale databases
• Granular access to PlanetScale databases via passwords & certificates.

Principal Software Engineer at GitHub (May 2017 - May 2021)

• Lead Engineer on bringing Actions & Packages to GHES 3.0
• Lead Engineer on GitHub Package Registry
• Staff Engineer on GitHub Actions
• Lead Engineer on GitHub Dependency Graph

Principal Engineer/Technical Lead at Hewlett Packard (April 2014 - May 2017)

• Lead developer & architect of a cloud service written from the ground up using nodeJS, RabbitMQ, Angular for UX and a bunch of other amazing technologies.
• We’re building a CI/CD system for customer application workloads that run on top of Helion Cloud Foundry.
• Received Bias for Action! recognition award.
• Received Making a Difference recognition award.

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Corporation (October 2012-April 2014)

HDInsight – Microsoft’s Hadoop Service for Windows Azure.

• Designed, implemented and shipped .net and NodeJS SDK for working with HDInsight clusters and jobs.
• Designed, implemented and shipped Powershell cmdlets for managing HDInsight clusters and jobs.
• Developed the web interface for provisioning HDInsight clusters.

Software Design Engineer 2 at Microsoft Corporation (December 2011 – October 2012)

OData Team - A standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs.

• Developed the .NET Windows Phone client library for OData protocol.
• Developed the .NET Windows Store client library for OData protocol.
• Developed a Windows Phone app to discover and browse OData feeds.
• Contributed to the JavaScript client library for OData protocol.

Software Design Engineer 2 at Microsoft Corporation (May 2011 – December 2011)

Project Barcelona - Metadata lineage and analysis for data connections.

• Developed the dependency visualization tool for tracking lineage across servers and file systems.
• Developed the admin application for running and managing crawlers across the enterprise.
• Developed the Reporting Services crawler to crawl reports for relations to SQL Server databases.
• Developed the REST API to kick off crawl jobs and browse crawled metadata.
• Received Gold Star performance award.

Software Design Engineer In Test 2 at Microsoft Corporation (March 2010 – June 2011)

OData Team - A standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs.

• Ensured quality of the Silverlight client library across MAC and PC platforms.
• Partnered with RIA Services team to develop OData Endpoints on top of RIA services.
• Partnered with Sharepoint server team to develop OData Services on top of Sharepoint Lists.
• Partnered with Windows Live Services team to develop OData services for User profile information.
• Recognized as High Potential (hipo) employee at Microsoft.

Software Design Engineer In Test at Microsoft Corporation (January 2008 – March 2010)

OData Team - A standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs.

• Designed & developed test plans for the Batch processing feature in WCF Data Services.
• Designed & developed test plans for the Linq query processing feature in WCF Data Services.
• Designed & developed test plans for the .net Client library for WCF Data Services.
• Received Gold Star performance award.

Support Engineer ASP.net/IIS servers at Microsoft Corporation (December 2006 - January 2008)

• Code debugging and review for .NET web based projects.
• Delivered timely and high quality incident resolution focusing on root cause analysis, prevention, and knowledge transfer.
• Wrote technical articles and knowledge base articles for Support.Microsoft.com.
• Received Microsoft Ace Award for excellent performance
• Received Microsoft Great People Great Performers award.