Senior Engineering Manager @ Etsy

In this position, I get to build a world-class SRE Team to help build the platform that powers etsy.com

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Etsy
Senior Engineering Manager
July 2022 - Present
Management, Infrastructure, Leadership
  • Responsible for leading the Services SRE team at Etsy

Ombud
Director of Engineering
April 2021 - July 2022
Management, Execution, Leadership
  • Built and lead the entire Engineering organization for Ombud. I was responsible for the Application Development, SRE, QA and Security engineering teams for the entire company.

Snap
Manager, Release Engineering
April 2020 - April 2021
Python, Bash, CI/CD, Mobile
  • I was responsible for managing the Release Engineering team. This team had the privilege of owning the entire release process for the Snapchat iOS and Android application. During my time at Snap we transformed the release process from a bi-weekly mostly manual process to a weekly process backed by automation. This team was part of the greater DevTools organization at Snap so we were also responsible for working with our QA and Tooling teams to help streamline and automate other pieces of the release process.

Comcast
Director, CDN SRE
April 2018 - April 2020
Management, Budget, Efficiency
  • At Comcast I had the privilege of working on one of the largest purpose built CDNs. My team was responsible for all build, deploy and infrastructure related efforts in order to keep the Comcast CDN up and running. This CDN was also an open source project that my team was responsible for contributing back to: Traffic Control

PGi (ReadyTalk acq.)
Engineering Manager
March 2017 - April 2018
Ansible, AWS, Kubernetes
  • Lead the SRE team where we were responsible for all of the production infrastructure as well as the developer experience. Most of our efforts were spent moving our on premise solutions to the cloud as well as taking on new technologies like docker and kubernetes.

ReadyTalk
SDET | DevOps
May 2014 - March 2017
Java, Bash, Python, Selenium
  • Worked to build out a full test automation suite leveraging an array of technologies (Java, Python, Cucumber).

NetApp
Automation Engineer
2011 - May 2014
Java, Bash, Perl, Javascript
  • Built a custom CI/CD build system using perl, javascript, html, css and bash.

LSI
QA Engineer
2007 - 2011
Bash, Perl
  • Contributed to a custom automated test runner and was responsible for writing end to end test automation for multiple features.
Metro State University of Denver
Computer Science
2012 - 2014
  • Studied Computer Science

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