Senior Platform Software Developer
Arrive AI Inc.
Aug 2025 - Present

• Architected, developed, and deployed a centralized multi-zonal embedded operating system (Arrive OS), powering the next-generation of Arrive Points.
• Designed and developed a web platform (Arrive Point Network) to manage our fleet of Arrive Points.
• Worked with AI Vision, Robotics, and PhDs to design and develop an "at-the-edge" OTA system for AI models and inferencing.
• Developed AI workflows, developer tooling, and SOPs for the organization.
• Drafted and authored Architectural Decision Records for the organization.
• Developed SDKs used by Drone and AMR providers to perform automated multi-modal handoffs with Arrive Points.
• Standardized team documentation, AI agent registries, and developer tooling.
• Authored an Ansible project to provision and manage fleets of embedded systems.
• Collaborated on high-level plans with Product Managers, Leads and fellow engineers.
• Attended numerous meetings to garner patnerships and relationships with integrators.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy multiple applications using GitLab, Terraform, Helm, and Azure.
• Programmed, flashed, and worked with various IoT devices and microcontrollers including STM32, iMXRT, ESP32, and Qualcomm Dragonwing.

Staff Software Engineer (Developer Experience)
GitLab Inc.
Jan 2025 - July 2025 _(7mo)

• Planned and architected tooling, observability, and alerting to improve engineering productivity.
• Built analytics dashboards to track engineering throughput and gaps.
• Performed internal team triage duties such as investigating anomalous data readings via existing, and new engineering dashboards.
• Assisted backend, database, and site reliability engineers to troubleshoot failing pipelines.
• Leveraged, augmented, and designed internal tooling to improve developer experience and enforce organization-wide policy.
• Coached and mentored database and backend engineers through the maintainership journey.
• Developed plans and strategies to improve overall developer experience.
• Met with internal and external customers and made proposals to fix major developer experience pain points.
• Reviewed and merged various backend, frontend, database, backport, and pipeline changes.

Staff Software Engineer in Test
GitLab Inc.
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025 _{(2yr 2mo)}

• Implemented Test Strategy, Test Coverage, coached other SETs and engineers across the org on effective strategies and implementations.
• Identified and designed new testing practices and tools to improve the quality of the GitLab. Provided risk analysis and security assessments during code reviews and during code authorship.
• Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.
• Performed pipeline on-call duties, including incident response and resolution, often in collaboration with SREs.
• Leveraged various provisioning technologies (Kubernetes, GCP) to create and maintain test environments and tools.
• Lead a Working Group to implement a new Demo data seeding strategy for Solution Architects and Test Platform teams.
• Worked on and managed complex department initiatives.
• Assisted with and helped coordinate a departmental transition from "Quality" to "Test Platform".
• Defined and independently manage multiple projects within the Test Platform department.
• Regularly performed backend, frontend, CI, and test code reviews and maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.
• Contributed to, and maintained technical documentation.
• Championed shift-left testing strategies organization-wide.
• Participated in customer calls and took part in Engineering outreach.
• Conducted dozens of solo technical and team peer interviews, resulting in the successful hiring of many Engineering Managers, Backend Engineers, and SETs.
• Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate and Senior Backend Engineers and SETs.
• Recorded demos.
• Wrote and owned OKRs in alignment with higher-level org goals.

Senior Software Engineer in Test
GitLab Inc.
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022 _{(4yr 6mo)}

• First Quality Engineering Team member hired to GitLab.
• Established processes for the Quality team, such as documentation and onboarding processes.
• Part of the engineering team during the company's IPO. (GTLB, Oct 2021)
• Established first iteration of test Quarantining and reporting processes.
• Regularly reviewed code and performed maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.
• Participated in pipeline on-call duties.
• Wrote and owned OKRs.
• Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate SETs.
• Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.

Solutions Architect II
Ericsson
May 2017 - Jun 2018 _{(1yr 2mo)}

• Helped author T-Mobile's Electronic Product Catalog, Order Management, and Order Negotiation Software Development Lifecycles, using GitLab as the backbone.
• Used Ansible and Rundeck to manage site infrastructure as code.
• Performed on-call SRE duties.
• Met with, and performed demos to clients.
• Built internal automation tooling using Python, Bash, and Ruby for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD integration, and API orchestration.
• Authored a Ruby on Rails build tool from scratch to manage client builds and releases.
• Led regular update meetings with clients.
• Leveraged Azure to provision instances, manage CIDRs, and supply VPN gateways to client VPNs.
• Managed login, OpenSSH, and firewall security in RHEL machines.
• Designed and maintained a linux infrastructure with a team in Chile.
• Mentored and led a Chile-based team to maintain their infrastructure.
• Provisioned and used Rancher (Cattle) to manage fleets of Docker containers.
• Set up reverse-proxies.

QA Test Automation Architect
Ericsson
Jan 2016 - May 2017 _{(1yr 5mo)}

• Provisioned test pipelines from scratch using GitLab, Rundeck, and Jenkins.
• Authored a Containerized version of SoapUI.
• Created end-to-end test beds written in Python.
• Wrote custom SonarQube code-quality rules.
• Created an XML Extractor tool in Python for use in Continuous Integration.
• Designed and implemented entire software development pipelines including test automation.

Software Test Engineer
ProQuest
Mar 2011 - Jan 2016 _{(4yr 11mo)}

• Designed and implemented test automation architectures.
• Wrote end-to-end tests using Java and TestNG.
• Created a one-stop website for all things "Quality", written in PHP.
• Authored Jenkins pipelines to run continuous tests.
• Created a greenfield Ruby on Rails project to track test performance, and display graphs of the current infrastructure.
• Made a web-based subscription system to regularly email test reports to key personnel.
• Leveraged Rundeck and Ansible to provision virtual instances in AWS.
• Mentored other Test Engineers and engineers.
• Led regular brown-bag meetings to coach team members on test design and processes.
• Attended and represented the org at open-source conferences.
• Led an open-source initiative, inviting engineers around the area to the office, to discuss test automation and showcase ProQuest's testing paradigm.