Experiences

• Sep 2023 - Present

  Web3 & DeFi Hackathoner

  Worldwide | Remote

  Actively participated in Web3 hackathons, building DeFi primitives with Uniswap v4, 1inch Aqua, Chainlink CCIP, and more. Multiple prize winner 🏆 at EthGlobal events.

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• Sep 2022 - Sep 2023

  Hybrid Senior Technical Writer / Engineer

  Palo Alto Networks

  Santa Clara, California | Remote

  Led docs-as-code transition and single-handedly migrated legacy API docs to a new domain. Improved accuracy and DX through CI/CD engineering in 30+ codebases. Collaborated with engineering teams to clearly expose backend systems via APIs. Wrote SDK code snippets in Go, Python, Java, and Node. Owned and maintained API reference docs.

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• Feb 2018 - Dec 2018

  Senior Software Engineer

  Baker Hughes

  Minden, NV

  Contributed to the development of Scout portable devices for machine condition monitoring using C++, HTML5, Angular, and CSS. Also built a comprehensive testing framework in C# to validate system performance and reliability.

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• Sep 2016 - Jun 2017

  Senior Solutions Architect

  Digital Fleet, LLC.

  Greater Chicago Area

  Provisioned and managed AWS cloud infrastructure; rebuilt a legacy web app using Angular, Node, and MongoDB; created technical documentation and user manuals; mentored junior software engineers.

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• Nov 2015 - Jun 2016

  Senior Software Engineer

  leadPops, Inc.

  Greater San Diego Area

  Led development of a marketing automation platform and end-to-end lead generation and conversion optimization suite using Angular, PHP7, and Zend Framework—empowering service-based businesses to capture, engage, and convert more leads.

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• Jan 2015 - Nov 2015

  Software Engineer

  Adicio

  Carlsbad, California

  Enhanced an existing web app with new features, worked with product owners to prioritize the backlog, wrote Bash and Python automation scripts.

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• Apr 2013 - May 2014

  Software Engineer

  PACCAR

  Chillicothe, OH

  Launched a new ASP.NET responsive web app for mobile and desktop use, independently developed and released a dashboard application that aggregated data from multiple systems.

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• Sep 2012 - Apr 2013

  Software Developer

  Quad/Graphics

  Sussex, WI

  Iteratively optimized and enhanced a Windows application, built integrations with other apps via APIs.

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• Sep 2010 - Jun 2011

  Software Developer / Research Assistant

  Nevada System of Higher Education

  University of Nevada, Reno – Brain Computation Lab

  Assisted in deploying deep neural network models, performed Linux system administration, provided programming support for researchers by modifying Perl, Python, and Bash scripts.

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Education

• 2008 - 2012

  B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering

  University of Nevada, Reno

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