Resume
Summary
Senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating business-critical backend systems at enterprise scale. I architected and ran a high-availability patient identity platform that processes millions of records per day for multiple state-wide health information exchanges. I ship to production often, work through hard performance and scaling problems, and pick up new languages and tooling quickly. I have taught Rust, Nix, containerization, and standards like gRPC to other engineers, and I do R&D across a wide range of languages and technologies, including using AI to accelerate prototyping and testing. As a former military medic, I also have firsthand experience as a user of electronic health record systems, working alongside medical administrators, nurses, primary care providers, and specialists.
Skills
Distributed Systems & Architecture: Service-oriented architecture, high-availability service design, gRPC, Kafka streams, event-driven sync, network load balancing, horizontal scaling
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, API Gateway, EC2, EKS), Digital Ocean, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman containers, Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD & Developer Environments: Nix, NixOS, devenv.sh, reproducible developer environments, automated build and deploy pipelines, testing
Observability: OpenTelemetry metrics and tracing, Grafana, SumoLogic
Standards: HL7 v2/v3, FHIR
Leadership: Team management, mentoring, teaching new languages and tooling to engineers
Languages: Rust, Nix, Python, Kotlin, Bash, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, C#
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
Experience
2020 - 2026 | Senior Software Development Engineer, Health Catalyst
Architected and built a patient identity management platform serving as the gateway for clinical data across multiple state-wide health information exchanges. Led and mentored a small team of developers.
Operated it as a high-availability service processing millions of records per day, designed to scale horizontally with upstream data volume.
Planned configuration, deployment, and third-party integrations for onboarding new customers, and collaborated with peer team leads on API interoperability and the evolution of the interface.
Owned build and deploy pipelines, infrastructure deployment, and runtime configuration. Designed isolated cloud environments per customer, with infrastructure as code that automated authentication setup and capacity scaling, plus optional Kafka-based ingestion.
Created a git-based deployment pipeline for runtime configuration that tracked versions, changes, and approvals per environment across all customers.
Set up monitoring with OpenTelemetry metrics and tracing, and built support tooling to trace data provenance when diagnosing unexpected identity matches. This enabled live performance monitoring during deployments.
Built a prototype that converts the internal schema into a US Core compliant FHIR R4 service over Kafka streams, able to push to any FHIR-compliant server. It passed internal review for further development and customer use.
2017 - 2020 | CTO, Parse Software LLC
Matched client business needs to technology solutions and estimated operating costs, leading requirements analysis and technical consulting with stakeholders.
Planned, designed, and led full-stack development across mobile, backend, and front-end, including deployment strategy on Digital Ocean and AWS with Docker and Compose.
Delivered an enterprise-grade inventory management system and a medical-grade parcel tracking service.
Mentored software developer interns and engineers, and set technology direction across the stack (Rust, React, Flutter).
2016 - 2017 | Software Engineer, ISoft LLC
Planned and implemented development tasks across assigned projects.
Full-stack developer on an enterprise-grade inventory management system (JavaScript, PHP).
Military Experience
2013 - Present | Medic, Air National Guard
Clinical duties including record review, lab draws, immunizations, and annual physical assessments. Participated in humanitarian missions.
2009 - 2013 | Medic, United States Air Force
Served in pediatrics, labor and delivery, and inpatient care, including a six-month combat-zone deployment.
Education
Community College of the Air Force Practical Nursing Technology