Resume

Zilliant

Austin, TX / Remote | June 2015 - November 2025

Engineering Manager

  • Oversaw two high performing contract teams based in Eastern Europe, primarily Ukraine and Poland.
  • Assisted in architecture design tasks concurrently with team management following dissolution of the architecture group by leadership.

Senior Architect

  • Team lead of the Zilliant architect group, which designed product solutions across Zilliant’s platform including highly available APIs and a legacy monolith application.
  • Led system design of new product offering and subsequent integration of this design into existing platform based on stakeholder timeline and resource constraints.
  • Frequently engaged with customer solutions teams to identify design issues within their proposed solution on monolith application, including mitigation of recurring performance issues
  • Assisted on calls with customers to discuss system design during deployment phase or following service impacts.

Technical Lead

  • Technical lead for hybrid US-Ukraine team that focused primarily on critical backend features for the Zilliant platform using Amazon Web Service and Salesforce offerings.

Technical Skillset Includes

  • System design and architecture, centric around Amazon Web Services (ECS, EC2, Aurora, Redshift, SWF, Lambda)
  • Java, Python, R, SQL, Salesforce Apex
  • ELK stack troubleshooting

BNSF Railway Company

Fort Worth, TX | June 2013 - June 2015

Systems Developer

I worked as a systems developer for the Technology Services Detector Analytics Team. We focused on delivering alerts and measurements from trackside detectors across BNSF's vast rail network to the Mechanical team at the Network Operations Center.
Our technology stack was primarily Java, DB2/SQL, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM's Intelligent Operations Center.

Texas Tech University IT Help Central

Lubbock, TX | February 2012 - June 2013

On-Site Support


I was the lead on-site technical support staff member for the Department of Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the department's contract with IT Help Central. Day-to-day operations included end-to-end support of faculty, staff, students, and equipment.
I also worked as a general desktop services team member, supporting Texas Tech employees at large. Our team provided on-site support for a wide range of issues, focusing largely on hardware support.

Education

Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. College of Engineering

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Mathematics Minor