I am a product minded software engineer with over 10 years of professional experience.
My wide ranging technical experience includes writing custom applications for aircraft surveillance operating systems, building full stack web applications, optimizing data engineering solutions, and more.
After spending a few years as an engineering manager I decided I prefer working as an individual contributor, where I am able to use my unique combination of technical and leadership skills to deeply understand the business and ensure the software being built will properly accomplish the desired business outcomes.
I have worked at a variety of startups, which has helped me become comfortable with unknowns and uncertainty. I thrive when given an ambiguous problem and the autonomy to work across stakeholders to figure out what we should be building, how we should be building it, and delivering iterative solutions.
I have a craftsman's mindset, obsessing over the details and the quality of the software being built. This does not mean I am unable to make tradeoffs, but they should be intentional. I have experienced well crafted software enabling companies to rapidly iterate to deliver business value, as well as sloppy software grinding a company to a standstill.