Work Experience

My professional journey spans over three decades. The initial decade granted me opportunities to develop and hone systems, networking and coding skills. In those early years, I assembled Internet Service Providers, launched Linux ports of UNIX software and implemented business IP networking solutions.

In 2000, I established Aloe Software Group, a company that provided online student and financial management for Texas public schools. That same year, I joined First Victoria National Bank, to overhaul their network in preparation for expansion and interoperability, as their grew through acquisition.

I left Texas in 2005, joining San Francisco Bay Area startup MobiTV. As the Systems and Networking Engineering Manager, I organized efforts to maintain availability during times of rapid customer and offering expansions.

DreamWorks Animation offered me a position in 2007, so I moved to Los Angeles, to join the AnimTech group as a Senior Network Engineer. In 2008, I relocated to Bengaluru, India, where I hired and trained support staff at a new animation studio, as an Engineering Manager. After returning stateside, DreamWorks promoted me to Principal Engineer and had me focus on future rendering techologies. In 2015, I managed the team responsible for containerizing film animation software, for a live 3D rendering SaaS. That startup shuttered in 2017, when Universal purchased DreamWorks.

I continued my career progression at Box as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Edge Performance team. There, I developed a distributed firewall solution and overhauled service proxy implementations.

In 2018, Twitter hired me to manage storage engineering teams. After a couple of years, I transitioned to an individual contributor role. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, I participated in several high-impact storage projects. Due to the turmoil and uncertainty at Twitter after Musk bought the company, I left in 2023.

That same year, I joined Upstart as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer. There, I revitalized the Postmortem Bar Raisers program and revamped incident management processes and procedures. I automated metrics collection and representation for leadership status reports.

In 2025, I stepped away from work, taking a one-year hiatus to travel the world. Follow along.