Middleware architect and developer lead with 14+ years building scalable, secure backend and platform systems. For the past three years, architected middleware for a connected-devices platform serving 10M+ devices across AWS and Azure. Deep experience in API security, observability, CI/CD modernization, and technical mentorship.
Experience
Chamberlain Group — Middleware Architect / Developer Lead
Remote | August 2017 – Present
- Middleware architect for a large-scale connected-devices platform supporting 10M+ devices at 99.9%+ uptime across AWS and Azure, defining integration patterns, shared libraries, and the technical roadmap across distributed teams.
- Drove observability modernization from Grafana to Datadog across 500+ services, adopting OpenTelemetry standards for consistent instrumentation across middleware, mobile, and firmware.
- Own the middleware technical roadmap; facilitate weekly knowledge-transfer sessions across 50+ engineers and provide architecture guidance across teams.
- Led Cloudflare API Shield migration for 93 external APIs, replacing manual F5 ASM policies with automated endpoint validation — improving security posture and reducing policy maintenance overhead.
- Led Azure DevOps-to-GitHub transformation, migrating 100+ build/release pipelines and standardizing automated release workflows for distributed teams.
- Maintain shared libraries and core platform components (async C#, RabbitMQ, Couchbase, Kafka) used across 15+ product and platform teams.
- Onboarded and maintain security and compliance tooling including SonarQube, Mend, and Veracode.
Rightpoint Consulting — Senior Developer, Application Development
Chicago | March 2015 – August 2017
- Delivered cloud-native solutions for clients across healthcare, energy, and medical device industries using microservice architecture and automated integration testing.
- Medical Device Analytics Platform: Built scalable Node.js microservices on AWS (DynamoDB, SQS, EC2, Terraform, Elastic Beanstalk); led a team of 5 developers building an end-to-end Selenium test suite; delivered zero-downtime deployments via Jenkins and JFrog.
- O365 Utilities (Energy Client): Architected and implemented a server-side service synchronizing Active Directory groups with HubSpot contact lists.
- Hospital Public Website: Contributed to a Sitecore CMS implementation for University of Minnesota Health (C#, HTML, CSS).
- Created monitoring tools tracking uptime, stability, and deployment health across client environments; mentored junior developers.
GCM Grosvenor — Analyst, Investment Risk Management / Software Development
Chicago | Summer 2011; September 2012 – March 2015
- Modernized a suite of risk-management applications (90,000+ annual hits) from legacy desktop deployments to testable, environment-independent services.
- Designed automation frameworks replacing manual Excel reporting workflows for portfolio analytics teams.
- Established analytics engines supporting portfolio risk analysis, performance attribution, and factor model initiatives.
- Analyzed hedge fund risk management capabilities and third-party platform viability.
Wells Fargo & Company — Intern, US Corporate Banking
Chicago | Summer 2008
- Supported corporate banking officers analyzing capital structures and client financials using Bloomberg, Reuters, and Capital IQ.
Education
University of Michigan — B.S.E. Industrial & Operations Engineering
Ann Arbor, MI
- Minors in Computer Science and Mathematics
- Graduated Cum Laude, College of Engineering
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, Elastic Beanstalk), Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Docker, Nginx, Cloudflare API Shield
Languages & Frameworks: C#, Node.js, PowerShell, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, Angular
Data & Messaging: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS
Observability & DevOps: Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, SonarQube
Practices: Microservices, API design, CI/CD, automated integration testing, SOLID principles, agile delivery
Interests
AI, cloud technologies, golf, gardening