About

I am a full stack engineer with professional development experience in embedded systems and cloud native technology for critical infrastructure, industrial control, and monitoring. I am also a proud coding mentor, ML/NLP security researcher, DevSecOps disciple, and a servant-leader who values strong teams and organizational ownership.

We are defined solely by the ladders we leave behind for others to follow. I am grateful to those who probably didn't know that anyone would do so.

Languages and Tech

• AWS, CDK/IaC, Gitlab
• Golang, C#/.NET, Bash, Javascript, Python, C/C++
• Docker, Kubernetes, Tilt, Istio, and friends
• PyTorch, Word2Vec, Numpy
• Ubuntu, Red Hat, Raspbian, Arduino, PIC32 / FreeRTOS

Experience

• Software Engineer

  Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

  • C# Synchrowave Operations developer and platform security evaluator
  • Golang co-developer of event monitor/uploader cloud app for traversing OT boundaries, secured by RFC-8628
• Power System Security Researcher

  Washington State University

  • IEEE published primary researcher and developer of MITRE ATT&CK modeling using ELK, Python, and Markovian risk estimation
• Cyber Intelligence Researcher

  Independent

  • IR methods for the Allen Institute Covid-19 research dataset using vector models
  • CHEETAH creator, a counter-misinformation system for analyzing content polarization and misinformation fingerprinting
  • ABLE-ITEM creator, a content historian for aggregating historical datasets from deep-web, social, and aggregated search apis
  • Rank-based classification methods for user identification from language samples, e.g. Enron data.

Education

• Master's Thesis in Computer Science  Summa Cum Laude

  Washington State University

  • Thesis in graphical anomaly detection for process mining applications
  • Interdisciplinary emphases in network science, machine learning, and security
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science  Summa Cum Laude

  Washington State University

  • Dual track in systems programming and machine learning
  • NSF grant recipient and SLIDE creator, an eye-tracking based language decoder for ALS patients
• Udemy Certifications (love these)

  Certifications

  • AWS Certified Developer
  • Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes
  • Golang Design Patterns
  • Full Stack React, C#, MobX
  • Golang gRPC Master Class

Leadership

• Youth Mentor

  Pullman, SEL

  • Coding/builder/trades youth mentor
  • Intro Arduino, Raspberry-Pi, and game-dev tutoring
• Embedded Systems Course Developer

  Independent

  • Developer of undergraduate lectures targeting the PIC32 mcu and peripheral devices
  • Completed C/assembly driver suite for 9dof IMUs, lighting, motor control, and acoustic units over I2C, SPI, and serial protocols.
• WSU Senior Design Mentor

  WSU External

  • Corporate-representative WSU senior design project mentor
• AAC Developer

  WSU Team Gleason

  • Author of Simple Language Inference Decoding Engine (SLIDE) for decoding language from eye-trace data using gradient-based dynamic programming and heuristic search.

References

• Schweitzer Engineering Labs
• MITRE Corp
• Alphabet

Study Notes

• AWS

Contact

• email
• github