About
Currently, I am a Software Engineer at System Initiative. I joined as the fifth person in the company to build what our industry needs now, more than ever.
I primarily focus on infrastructure software, cloud software and DevOps software. However, I am interested in all kinds of software and adjacent technologies, including hardware, 3D graphics, ML and AI.
Previously, I was a Software Engineer at SUSE (went public in 2021), a Software Engineer at Rancher Labs (acquired by SUSE in 2020), and a Software Engineer at NetApp. During my university years, I led a team that founded WakeHacks, the university’s annual hackathon.
Speaking / Interviews / Press Link to heading
- Co-speaker for “It’s time to rebuild DevOps” at the RTP Programmability and Automation Meetup (2023)
- Attendee and Open Spaces Leader (“Moving Past Infrastructure as Code”) at DevOpsDays DC 2023
- Panelist for the WFU CS Colloquium: Recruiting & Technical Interview Panel (2022)
- Speaker for Cloud Native Rust: Let’s Talk, hosted by David Flanagan (2022)
- Author of All Things Open 2021: Rust Cloud Native and Working on Open Source Projects at SUSE
- Co-Host and Guest Presenter for SUSE Summer is Open: Rust Cloud Native (2021)
- Speaker at SUSECON 2021
- Host for the Rancher Labs Master Class: Scaling Kubernetes Nodes from Rancher (2021)
- Technical Host (instruction by Ferrous Systems) for SUSE Hack Week 2021’s Rust Bootcamp
- Panelist for the 2021 Wake Forest University STEM Slam
- Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University OPCD Alumni Feature (2021)
- Podcast Guest on the Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 245: Containers, Kubernetes and Automation in Dev and QA at NetApp (2020)
- Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University Computer Science Alumni Feature (2020)
- Keynote Speaker of the 2020 Wake Forest University STEM Slam