Software Engineer, specilized in securtity & compliance. Over a decade of professional experience {planning,implementing,securing,maintaining} applications across {industries}. Technical skills needed to implement and scale secure applications, as well as the non-technical skills needed to coordinate projects with clients and stakeholders.
Security Reliability & Compliance Consultant, AWS Professional Services
May, 2021 - Present
I am currently a Security Consultant for AWS Professional Services, where I work with AWS' largest customers to develop secure cloud applications and infrastructure. Engaging with Global & Strategic AWS Customers to provide high-level guidance as well as technical delivery of secure AWS applications.
Senior Development Engineer, WatchGuard Technologies
Jan, 2018 - Apr, 20213 years 3 months
I was the senior-most member of the engineering team in charge of DNSWatch, a cloud-based DNS security solution. I was responsible for the secure DNS infrastructure, resolving more than 1 billion DNS queries daily to over 10,000 customers, while providing alerts and analytics critical to their security.
Expanding service availability from North America only, to Tokyo, Ireland, and Australia
Rearchitecting the DNS summarization pipeline to support growth from hundreds of clients to tens of thousands
Simplifying production deployments by leveraging infrastructure-as-code and pre-built application images
Software Engineer, Strongarm
May, 2015 - Jan, 20182 years 8 months
I joined Strongarm as an intern in 2015, and eventually as a full-time developer in 2018. I have made significant contributions to every component of the service, continuing to work on it through an acquisition by WatchGuard in 2018.
Meeting with customers to better understand their needs, and help them deploy Strongarm
Growing the engineering team by advertising at career-fairs and conducting interviews with candidates
Triaging and resolving outages and operational issues in production, during shifts of 24/7 on-call availability
Intern, The MITRE Corporation
Jun, 2012 - Aug, 20131 year 2 months
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
API Development
Application Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AWS Security
AWS
CI/CD
Cloud Application Development
Cloud Computing IaaS
Cloud Security
Computer Science
DevOps
Djano
Docker
Domain Management
Domain Name System (DNS)
General Aviation
Git
Git
GitHub Actions
GitHub
HIPAA
HTML
Information Security Consulting
Infrastructure as code (IaC)
Infrastructure
Javascript / Typescript
Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
Legacy Modernization
Linux
Mutual TLS
Network Engineering
Network Programming
Network Protocols
Network Security
Node
Open-Source Software
Operational Optimization
Postgres
Product Security
Python (Programming Language)
Python
Python
RabbitMQ
Redis
Regulatory Audits
Regulatory Compliance
SCSS / CSS
Security Consulting
Security Operations
Serverless
Software Development
Software Documentation
Subdomain Mapping
Threat Modeling
TLS Certificates
Vim
Web Services
Computer Science, Master of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan, 2013 - Jan, 2017
Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan, 2013 - Jan, 2017
AWS Certified AI Practitioner, Amazon Web Services
Issued on: Sep 01, 2025
AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Amazon Web Services
Issued on: Dec 01, 2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services
Issued on: Jul 01, 2021
Private Pilots License: Airplane Single Engine Land,
Issued on: Oct 01, 2023