I’m an Engineer, Mentor, Leader, Speaker & Community Builder.

My Mission

  • Solve tough engineering, product & people problems.

  • Create opportunities and support underrepresented groups get into tech.

 

Specialties

Ruby

GoLang

Mentorship

Eng Management

Project planning

Infrastructure

Leading and organizing programs

My son, Crew!

 

Outside of work, I love spending time with my family! We love spending time in the Colorado outdoors. We love to fly fish, hike, camp when the weather permits.

Family and time with my family is very important to me. Creating environments in the workplace where caregivers can thrive is also important to me.

Engineering Experience

Most Recent

GitHub 2020- Present

  • Responsible for the infrastructure and tooling around deploying at GitHub

  • Runs retrospectives and iterative planning meetings.

  • Planning out and implementing the MergeQueue functionality in our current deploy mechanics.

  • Worked with GitHub’s SRE’s to implement playbooks and Game Days.

  • Conducts technical and soft skills interviews regularly.

DigitalOcean 2017- 2020

  • Drove out full features across many services at DigitalOcean in Go and Ruby.

  • Experience with DevOps and deployment tasks. Architected new services.

  • Experience with highly complex distributed system architectures.

GoSpotCheck 2014- 2017

  • Drove full feature build outs on my own, including API building and integrations (Ruby/Rails).

  • React, Redux and Elastic Search experience.

  • Optimized SQL queries and performance optimizations throughout the web app.

  • Led book reviews on best practices and organizing our Dev Fireside chats

Leadership Experience

Thinkful 2016- Present

  • Trains educators on how to be better technical mentors.

  • Onboards and trains all new technical hires.

  • Managed a team of multiple developer mentors.

Adacats 2022- Present

  • Leads the Adacat Community of Belonging. (GitHub’s largest Community of Belonging)

  • Works with stakeholders to further our missions.

  • Invites speakers and leads initiatives within GitHub and externally in the tech community.

Ruby Central 2015- Present

  • Organizes the Scholar/Guide Program for all RubyCentral conferences.

  • Selects Scholars and Guides and implements the program.

  • Continuously works to improve the program through retrospectives and. trying new things.

BridgeFoundry 2017- Present

  • A long timer organizer of RailsBridge events.

  • Recruited and managed developer volunteers to put on the events.

  • Board member for the program as a whole.

  • Makes guiding decisions that influence the future of the non-profit.

GitHub Engineering Program 2022- Present

  • Organizes and as an admin for the GitHub Engineering Program’s Mentorship Program.

  • Implemented and maintains the program that pairs mentors with mentees.