Founding Engineer, Archestra.ai
Aug, 2025 - Present
Former biochemist (Harvard & McGill) turned software engineer. Over over 10 years of broad software experience, in both product and consulting environments, with a focus on backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering. Authorized to work in the European Union, USA & Canada.
Founding Engineer, Archestra.ai
Aug, 2025 - Present
Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
Feb, 2025 - Aug, 20256 months
Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Sep, 2022 - Feb, 20252 years 5 months
Key team-member on a 15 person team which was responsible for the Grafana OnCall web and mobile apps. Led several multi-team, cross-functional projects, such as completely redesigning our authnz setup to support RBAC, support for our new mobile app, as well as several product features (ex. Shift Swaps) that I proposed and saw through from design doc to implementation and support
Was constantly on the look-out for ways to improve the team's processes and code quality. I proposed and built our team's first e2e tests on CI. I also proposed a new set of processes to improve the team's project management processes, making it easier to build our backlog, track in-flight work, and improve our sprint planning.
Worked closely with our support and product teams to address customer escalations and also give demos to new potential customers.
Senior Software Engineer, CircleCI
Apr, 2022 - Sep, 20225 months
Was a key full-stack engineer on a 10 person team that managed several high-traffic microservices + a popular open-source CLI project
Mentored, and regularly pair-programmed with, more junior engineers on the team
Within less than one month, became a key contributor to our team's clojure services (a language which I previously had zero experience in).
Data Engineer, GrowFlow
Apr, 2021 - Feb, 202210 months
Engineered a custom MongoDb data extraction script (Python) to read from 300+ Mongo databases and load into our data warehouse
Worked on both the frontend (React/next.js) and backend (node/TypeScript) of our cusotmer-facing analytics product. Backend work involved architecting a brand-new authorization microservice for the company.
Built dozens of dbt models to support our both our customer facing analytics application as well as internal BI reporting dashboards.
Data Engineer, McKinsey & Company (Quantum Black)
Nov, 2020 - Apr, 20215 months
Consulted a global CPG company. Built data pipelines to move over 60TB of data from Azure to GCP. Engineered over 2000 features, using dbt, that were used by our team's data scientists to build predictive models and BI dashboards.
Data Scientist, Lightspeed
Mar, 2019 - Sep, 20201 year 6 months
Automated the company's GTV (Gross Transactional Volume) metric calculation. Involved building an anomaly detection classification model to flag fake transactions. The V1 random forest model was then later simplied to a median absolute deviation from median algorithm to improve the model's interpretability.
Developed the team's Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Worked daily with advanced/expert level SQL concepts and often with large/complex queries (500+ line)
Senior Software Developer, Lightspeed
Oct, 2018 - Mar, 20195 months
Initial team member of the company's first microservice team. Involved in all early stage discussions/planning of the microservice related to infrastructure, deployment, database, monitoring, etc.
Developed a large portion of the initial POC in Golang.
Engineered a docker-compose setup to make local development of the service much more efficient
Software Engineer II, Shutterstock
Aug, 2016 - Oct, 20182 years 2 months
Full stack developer on the office's internal tools team. Built web applications (Python + React + Jenkins + k8s) for other teams at the company, to ease/automate their processes.
Research Associate - Protein Engineering, Harvard University
Jul, 2014 - Nov, 20151 year 4 months
Part of a multi-disciplinary team involved in designing a therapeutic device for the treament of sepsis.
Expressed, purified, and characterized novel fusion proteins for various therapeutic applications.
Co-Founder & CTO, 100 Danish
Oct, 2013 - May, 20206 years 7 months
Co-founder/CTO of the six team-member creative agency
Lead developer on 5 full-stack (Python + React + GCP/Terraform) web application development projects. Often interfaced directly with external clients to understand the project's goals and features.
Research Associate - Antibody Engineering, Berg Health
Jun, 2013 - Jul, 20141 year 1 month
Cultivated hybridoma cells to produce monoclonal antibodies which were later affinity purified on AKTA Pure system
Developed several diagnostic ELISA assays with in-house purified monoclonal antibodies
Python
Node (TypeScript)
Cloud Infrastructure (GCP + AWS)
clojure
Golang
Terraform
k8s
CI/CD
SQL
dbt
BigQuery
Web Scraping
Protein Biochemistry, Doctorate, McGill University
Jan, 2016 - Jun, 2016
Biology & Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, York College of Pennsylvania
Sep, 2009 - May, 2013
Cum Laude HonorsYork College "10 Under '10" Award , York College of PA Office of Alumni Relations
Awarded on: Apr 01, 2014
Honorable Mention for Excellence in Research , Berg Health
Awarded on: Dec 01, 2013
Athletic Honor Roll , York College of Pennsylvania
Awarded on: May 01, 2013
All-Academic Team , NCAA Capital Athletic Conference
Awarded on: May 01, 2012
Awarded to NCAA student athletes holding >3.5 cumulative GPA
Director of Nerdy Marketing, iNERDE
Jan, 2014 - Jan, 2015
Traveled to Bamako, Mali during the summer of 2014 to teach STEM to children during our summer camp.
Firefighter, Avalon Volunteer Fire Department
May, 2010 - May, 2013
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Avalon Rescue Squad
May, 2010 - May, 2013
Biking
Hiking
Running
Travelling