Resume

Summary

Accomplished tech leader with a proven track record in designing robust systems. Strengths in systems design, performance optimization, and cybersecurity. Focuses in Python/PHP development, cloud infrastructure, and the RedHat Linux ecosystem.

Experience

Constant Contact / Sr. Principal Engineer June 2024 - Present, Houston, Texas

Realty.com, LLC / Principal Architect November 2019 - June 2024, Houston, Texas

  • Designed, built, and deployed a search strategy using Elasticsearch, for full text search plus search-as-you-type search suggestions across the product.
  • Implemented a security posture to maintain lender compliance and reduce internal risk (AUP/BCP/Infosec).
  • Created a full ETL pipeline to handle importing, normalizing/sanitizing, and storing MLS listings for tens of millions of properties around the United States.
  • Created and maintained many features for the Vue.js/Mapbox web application for searching home listings, some of which include map performance improvements, filtering, accessibility for vision impared users, location boundary improvements (convex-hull and bounding boxes using known MLS listings for locations that had poor boundaries), and MLS compliance fixes.
  • Implemented many performance enhancements to optimize our SEO strategy for the Vue.js web application.
  • Identified multiple areas in the stack for cloud cost saving, which ended up reducing our monthly GCP spend by approximately 30%.

Endurance International Group / Systems Architect April 2012 - October 2019, Houston, Texas

  • Led and successfully completed a full datacenter migration for a $225 million web hosting brand, into a greenfield data center space.
  • Designed, developed, and implemented a ground-up PCI-compliant billing system architecture redesign for this same brand, that now handles millions of dollars of revenue annually.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained an OpenStack cluster for shared and dedicated customer servers, which hosted hundreds of thousands of customers.
  • Assisted with the design of a petabyte-scale storage architecture for this cluster.
  • Authored multiple Linux kernel patches to alter the behavior of the operating system to be more web hosting-friendly.
  • Integrated many > $10mm ARR web hosting brand acquisitions, and acted as technical lead for numerous data center consolidations.
  • Performed as a Systems Architect and technical manager for the Endurance Mainsites and Billing team, leading a team of systems engineers, responsible for maintaining financial systems for all strategic web presence brands.
  • Working with the engineering teams, our team successfully created a devops culture by implementing a development workflow in OpenShift/Kubernetes, designing and building OpenShift clusters for production, and empowering Endurance engineers to own the full lifecycle of their applications.

HostGator.com, LLC / Systems Administrator Level III April 2011 - April 2012, Houston, Texas

  • Responsible for all aspects of the HostGator server farm, approximately 20,000 systems in multiple US data centers.
  • Maintained all Hostgator databases, diagnosed performance problems, rewrote/deployed SQL queries, clustered and deployed new database systems, and scaled out core databases as needed.
  • Developed and implemented scaling strategies for numerous core systems such as HostGator’s customer chat interface, customer portal, and main website.
  • Maintainer of multiple core infrastructure systems such as NTP/DNS/CDN/update servers, diagnosed performance and deployed updates to these systems.
  • Developed a company dashboard/request tracker using JavaScript, Django, and MySQL that aggregated SPAM data from the customer server fleet, our datacenter provider, and SPAM feedback loops for our security team.
  • Analyzed system performance across all maintained systems and developed/deployed numerous tweaks and fixes for performance problems.
  • Responsible for assisting developers with code deploy issues, performance, and bug fixes in their code.

Education

University of Houston / B.S. Computer Science


(ISC)² / Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Extra

University of Houston Alumni Foundation / Board Member - Natural Sciences and Mathematics College Alumni Association April 2018 - PRESENT