I am a software developer with a focus in backend development of geospatial applications. I am a Pythonista at heart. I love working with Postgres and Postgis but have also enjoyed using Mongo and Arango for various projects. I enjoy and excel at building projects from the ground up.

ABSC

Software Developer November 2022 - Present

• Support deployment and use of the Syntasa application in the federal space

Maxar

Software Developer Manager July 2021 – November 2022

Staff Software Developer November 2016 - July 2021

• Led team of up to 10 developers to design and create applications

• Review code, mentor teammates and work with customers to create solutions

• Manage multi-million dollar project, interfacing with contract and finance teams

• Uses Flask, FastAPI, Postgres and Arango to create Python Web API microservices along with several other microservices used for communication within application

• Lead team in the design of application, guide junior developers in their tasks, and interface with clients to ensure the success of the project.

• Automated deployment of microserviced application using Github Actions, AWS ECR/ECS, Ansible, Docker and Gitlab CI

• Created serverless application using Python and AWS to automate the transfer of data from open internet to C2S and saved hundreds of thousands annually.

• Used MongoDB and Python to analyze and profile a 1 TB sample of data for Geoint Services

• Manages AWS account; increased security and decreasing costs

• Create technical reviews of tools and applications for potential integration into existing enterprise environment

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Data Scientist/Technical Lead March 2016 - November 2016

• Led a team of contractors who maintained servers for data processing and office website

• Worked with several offices across the agency to help migrate the library’s application to C2S

• Created application to allow librarians to clean metadata of library records

Python Community Group Chair June 2014 – November 2016

• Organized and ran multiple inter-agency hackathons to solve various long standing problems

• Organized weekly interagency python meetings to share best practices and introductory training

• Created tool to automate a spatial correlation workflow from 1 month down to 10 minutes

Geospatial Instructor June 2014 – March 2016

• Taught introductory python course and other GIS classes

• Helped develop curriculum for an advanced python course

• Responsible for authoring, maintaining, and preparing courses at the NGA College

Geospatial Analyst June 2010 – June 2014

• Created application using Python to display spatial statistics of geospatial datasets while being edited in ArcGIS

• Used Python to automate common workflows

• Created new methodology to close intelligence gap