Engineer

I am a founding engineer at OtterTune.

HashiCorp Research Scientist May 2017 – July 2020

Internal research conducted into HashiCorp products on cloud security
50% time spent researching, designing algorithms to solve a novel problem, presenting and discussing my algorithms
50% writing code based on algorithms, running experiments, and analyzing results
Built Vault Advisor, a novel tool to detect insecure configurations in secret management systems and propose corrections trading off security with configuration complexity. Research published in SACMAT 2020, patent pending.
Built a cutting-edge web UI for data visualization for Vault Advisor, using Next.js, React, and Vega.
Saw company through 10x growth, from Employee #100 to roughly 950 employees at present.
Speaker and coauthor, HashiConf 2018, San Francisco CA Preventing Security Incidents by Automating Policy Optimization
Speaker and author, Uptime August 2017, Pittsburgh PA Next-Gen Bug Catching with Fault Localization

OThot, LLC Software Engineering Intern April 2015 – August 2015

Clockwise Tees Associate Full Stack Software Engineer January 2015 – April 2015

Full stack web development, design, implementation, and ops for API microservices
Worked highly independently as the only in-house developer on an active website
Responsible for converting company CEO’s requests into technical requirements and executing them in a timely fashion

ModCloth Associate Software Engineer May 2014 – July 2014

Primary responsibility was the design, implementation and deployment of a backend microservice written in Go for maintaining parity between databases

Software Engineering Intern May 2013 – August 2013

Contributed to an open source webhook application in Go for handling arbitrary payloads.
Contributed to an internal tool for improving the correct of warehouse item picking

Education

University of Pittsburgh