Selected impact
Core skills
Beyond the code
World of Warcraft
I am a long-time player and guild leader. That means organizing group goals, helping people get geared, keeping the atmosphere welcoming, and stepping in when interpersonal issues start affecting guild business.
Tabletop role-playing games
I run D&D and Pathfinder 2e campaigns and enjoy collaborative storytelling, worldbuilding, rules systems, and the challenge of turning player chaos into a coherent adventure.
Creative tinkering
I experiment with retro games, music arrangement and remixing, digital art workflows, and small automation projects. I like learning tools by making something with them.
Experience
Kaiser Permanente
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
July 2021 to present
IT Consultant V (Senior Software Engineer), Virtual Assistant Team
October 2025 to present
- Develop solutions for Kaiser Permanente's AI Virtual Assistant.
- Work in parallel with consent-management responsibilities during the role transition.
IT Consultant V (Senior Software Engineer), Consent Management
May 2025 to January 2026
- Developed the list REST API target for a Java consent-management application.
- Helped raise project-wide unit-test coverage from 35% to 95%.
- Wrote end-to-end regression tests for every API target.
IT Consultant V (Senior Software Engineer), Search Platform
September 2021 to October 2025
- Built search-engine solutions for KP Digital using Java and Python.
- Worked extensively with Lucidworks Fusion and Apache Solr.
IT Consultant V (Senior Software Engineer), Recommender Systems
July 2021 to September 2021
- Developed more relevant search solutions with the KP Digital Recommender Systems team.
Evident ID
Senior Software Engineer
July 2020 to July 2021
- Developed Scala services for scheduling and insurance verification.
CareerBuilder
Software Engineer II and Software Engineer III
November 2014 to April 2020
- Built REST APIs for the Candidate Search Engine in C# and Scala.
- Developed Scala APIs for Candidate Actions and Candidate Status and contributed to Candidate Data Processing products.
- Expanded the unit and integration test suite from roughly 40 tests to more than 400, increasing code coverage from 40% to 85%.
- Streamlined database interaction and replaced a legacy settings controller with a simpler, faster configuration system.
AutoTrader.com
Software Engineer
March 2009 to November 2014
- Developed search-engine systems using FAST and later Apache Solr.
- Worked with Atlassian Crucible and Fisheye code-review tooling.
- Contributed to automated deployment systems, including an internal deployment tool and Jenkins.
MicroDesigns, Inc.
Contractor
January 2009 to March 2009
- Modernized legacy Visual C++ code for a metallurgical analyzer using Visual C++ .NET.
- Fixed a critical memory leak affecting Windows XP and later operating systems.
CareerBuilder.com
Software Engineer
July 2007 to December 2008
- Served as one of two DevOps engineers supporting approximately 120 FAST search instances and the associated .NET interface code.
MicroDesigns, Inc.
Intern
May 2006 to July 2007
- Worked as a developer, builder, and tester for low-volume and prototype electronics.
- Helped define and perform initial testing for the NEMA-243 lighting specification.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Certificate in Information Assurance
2003 to 2007