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💼 EXPERIENCE

🖥️ Senior Software Engineer

Web Services and Rapid Reuse | Gates Foundation/Institute for Disease Modeling | Seattle, WA | 📅 July 2024 - Mar 2025

  • 🎤 Organized & executed a training workshop for new scientific developer library
  • 🔄 Migrating multiple researchers to new versions of tooling.
  • 🔧 Developing a backend for model result exploration using GraphQL, FastAPI, and Strawberry.

📈 Senior Software Manager

Web Services and Rapid Reuse Modeling | Gates Foundation/Institute for Disease Modeling | Seattle, WA | 📅 Oct 2023 - July 2024

  • 🎯 Founded & led the Visualization and Rapid Reuse Modeling Team.
  • 📍 Defined vision, roadmap, and long-term goals in collaboration with leadership.
  • 🏗️ Recruited contractors and other roles to augment the team

👨‍💼 Software Manager

Web Services and Research Software Engineering | Gates Foundation/Institute for Disease Modeling | Seattle, WA | 📅 Feb 2020 - Oct 2023

  • 👨‍💻 Managed a team of 5-8 engineers, mentoring and promoting team members.
  • 🌍 Transitioned the team to remote work while maintaining operational continuity.
  • 📈 Increased R engagement by 400% among researchers through training & stakeholder engagement.
  • 🛠️ Developed & deployed scientific SDKs (idmtools) for workflow orchestration.
  • 🚀 Reduced deployment time for web applications & dashboards from 3 weeks to 1 week.
  • 📊 Created a centralized monitoring dashboard for research websites and applications.
  • 🔄 Standardized CI/CD GitHub workflows for Python libraries at IDM.

🔬 Senior Software Engineer

Full Stack Engineer, Research Software Engineer | Gates Foundation/Institute for Disease Modeling | Seattle, WA | 📅 Feb 2017 - Jan 2019

  • 🐳 Evangelized Docker for scientific reproducibility and efficiency.
  • ⚡ Optimized high-performance computing (HPC) workflows.
  • 🧠 Automated machine learning pipeline for social mapping.
  • 📊 Developed multiple features from 0 to 1 for global health or modeling full-stack applications.
  • 🌍 Built dashboards & tools with React, Flask, Dash, and RShiny.
  • ☁️ Automated NOAA weather data processing using Azure + Airflow.

🌐 Senior Software Engineer

Full Stack Engineer | Deloitte and Touche | 📍 Bristol, TN | 📅 Feb 2016 - Jan 2017

  • 🛠 Developed microservices using Python, Angular, and Docker for Medicaid compliance software.
  • 🏗 Led architecture and design of multiple microservices in Flask and Angular.
  • 📑 Designed and implemented a PDF ingestion & ETL workflow for claims processing.
  • ⚙️ Automated business processes using Camunda BPM Engine.
  • 🎓 Led training for third-party consultants for faster onboarding.
  • 🤝 Gathered requirements from external clients for claims processing.

💻 Senior Software Engineer (Billing)

Full Stack Engineer | CGI Technologies | 📍 Lebanon, VA | 📅 2012 - Feb 2016

  • 🔄 Migrated legacy systems from CORBA to RESTful APIs with an Angular frontend and Dropwizard backend.
  • ⚙️ Built DevOps pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible.
  • 🏗 Developed automation tools for legacy system modernization.
  • 🎤 Led and participated in client-facing demos.

🛠️ Release/System Engineer (Billing)

CGI Technologies | 📍 Lebanon, VA | 📅 2009 - 2012

  • 🖥️ Managed multi-OS build environments (Linux, Solaris, Windows).
  • 🔄 Deployed Jenkins for CI/CD automation.
  • 🏗 Transitioned C++ builds from Solaris CC to GCC.
  • 🌙 Performed overnight updates and deployments.
  • ⏳ Served on rotating on-call team for system monitoring & incident response.

📊 Technical Analyst (ATT Provisioning Management)

CGI Technologies | 📍 Lebanon, VA | 📅 2007 - 2009

🎓 Adjunct Professor of C++ for Robotics

Bluefield State College | 📍 Bluefield, WV | 📅 Jan 2007 - April 2007

📐IT Support Engineer / CAD & 3D Visualization Specialist

ETB Architects | 📍 Princeton, WV | 📅 1999 - 2007

🏆 AWARDS

  • 🎖 High Impact Bonus - 2021 Q4, 2023 Q2 | Gates Foundation/IDM
  • 🏅 High Performance Bonus - 2018, 2019 | Gates Foundation/IDM
  • 🎖 Applause Award - 2016 Q2, 2016 Q3 | Deloitte & Touche
  • ⭐ Star Performer - 2008 Q3, 2011 Q4 | CGI Technologies

📄 Contributions to Open Source our or Scientific Papers

  • 📖 Population replacement gene drive characteristics for malaria elimination
  • 📖 Controlling COVID-19 via test-trace-quarantine
  • 📖 Covasim: an agent-based model of COVID-19 dynamics and interventions
    • DOI
    • 🏗 Contribution: Model development support

🎓 EDUCATION

🎓 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Bluefield State College
🎓 Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Technology (Networking Focus) | Bluefield State College
📍 Bluefield, WV | 2001-2005

💻 SKILLS

🖥️ Software Languages

  • Python (14 yrs), JavaScript/TypeScript (10 yrs), C++ (4 yrs), Java (4 yrs)
  • Shell Scripting (14 yrs), C# (2 yrs), Perl (2 yrs), Ruby (2 yrs)

🌐 Web Development (Frontend)

  • React (7 yrs), Angular (2 yrs), Vue.js (1 yr)
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript (15 yrs)
  • Selenium (6 yrs), Playwright/Jest (2 yrs)

⚙️ Web Development (Backend)

  • Flask (7 yrs), FastAPI (3 yrs), Django (4 yrs), Express.js (4 yrs)
  • PostgreSQL (10 yrs), MongoDB (4 yrs), Redis (7 yrs), Cassandra (2 yrs)
  • JWT (7 yrs), OAuth (5 yrs), SAML (2 yrs), LDAP (6 yrs), Okta (1 yr)

📊 Scientific Computing & Data Engineering

  • Airflow (3 yrs), Nextflow (2 yrs), Snakemake (2 yrs)
  • Dask (5 yrs), Ray (2 yrs), Numba (2 yrs)
  • Numpy (7 yrs), Pandas (7 yrs), Jupyter Notebooks (7 yrs)

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (2 yrs), Azure (7 yrs)
  • Docker (9 yrs), Kubernetes (6 yrs)
  • GitHub Actions (4 yrs), Jenkins (10 yrs), Terraform (4 yrs)