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
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.