Timeline

Career Timeline

November 2023

Conference talk at SeaGL 2023

Summer 2023

Managed and mentored summer intern

Allen Institute for Brain Science

May 2023

University tech talk at UWB Hacks 2023 @ University of Washington Bothell

April 2023

Promoted to engineering manager of internal data platforms and tools team

Software Engineer Manager at Allen Institute for Brain Science

January 2023

Transferred to Lead Engineer for internal data platforms and tools

Allen Institute for Brain Science

2023

August 2022

Became Lead Engineer for APIs powering public apps

Allen Institute for Brain Science

Summer 2022

Managed and mentored summer intern

Allen Institute for Brain Science

Spring 2022

Lead Backend Engineer for Seattle Alzheimer's Disease Brain Cell Atlas (SEA-AD)

Allen Institute for Brain Science

February 2022

Initial release (v0.1.0) of APRS# nuget packages

2022

July 2021

Launched Allen Brain Map Specimen Explorer

Allen Institute for Brain Science

2021

December 2020

Delivered large feature matrix processing ETL in collaboration with AWS

Allen Institute for Brain Science

November 2020

Conference talk at SeaGL 2020

October 2020

Implemented custom Chrome browser plugin and daemon for file access/manipulation.

Contract Software Engineer at Bielstein IT

Summer 2020

Mentor for student missing internship experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Open-sourced APRS# for the project.

Project Mentor at InternLink 2020

2020

December 2019

Joined the Allen Institute

Software Engineer III at Allen Institute for Brain Science

Summer 2019

Mentored new hires for Azure IoT - Digital Twins team

Microsoft - Azure IoT

June 2019

Implemented new POCSAG pager encoder for Burning Man Festival

Contract Software Engineer at Bielstein IT

2019

October 2018

Azure Digital Twins public preview released

Microsoft - Azure IoT

Summer 2018

Mentored summer intern on Azure Digital Twins team

Microsoft - Azure IoT

April 2018

Transferred teams to join Azure IoT working on Azure Digital Twins

Software Engineer at Microsoft - Azure IoT

2018

October 2017

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update released. Contributed additional new features-on-demand for virtual reality headsets and OpenSSH in Windows.

Microsoft - Windows

Summer 2017

Mentored summer intern on Windows Deployment team

Microsoft - Windows

April 2017

Windows 10 Creators Update releases. My contributions focus on features-on-demand support for Braille displays and complete uninstall of Internet Explorer 11

Microsoft

2017

September 2016

FCC "General Class" amateur radio license

July 2016

Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update releases featuring my rework of upgrade progress bar

Microsoft - Windows

Spring 2016

Mentor high school CS students (next four years)

Organizer / Mentor at Hunt the Wumpus Project

2016

August 2015

Joined Microsoft's Windows Deployment team

Software Engineer at Microsoft - Windows

May 2015

Graduated with master's, bachelor's, and associate's of computer science

The University of Texas at Austin & Austin Community College

May 2015

Completed master's thesis

The University of Texas at Austin

March 2015

FCC "Technician Class" amateur radio license

2015

Summer 2014

Internship building Windows 10 ability to use external storage for upgrades

Software Development Engineer Intern at Microsoft

2014

August 2013

Began master's courses and thesis

The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2013

Internship building LabVIEW, a native Windows app

Software Engineering Intern at National Instruments (NI)

2013

Summer 2012

Internship working on build systems and web apps

Software Engineering Intern at StapStream Media

Spring 2012

Joined autonomous vehicles research lab

Undergraduate Researcher at The University of Texas at Austin

2012

Fall 2011

Transferred to UT Austin

The University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2011

Began studying computer science

Austin Community College

2011

2010

Fall 2009

Began college coursework

Austin Community College

March 2009

Began work as an IT and networking technician

Technician at Bielstein IT

2009