Microsoft (Jan 2025 – Present)

Software Development Engineer II (L62)
https://www.microsoft.com/

SDE II on the Azure Log Analytics Ingestion team (Azure Data), focused on observability infrastructure at scale.

Key areas of work:
• Building synthetic E2E validation for an expanding surface of data types across Windows, Office, Teams, Xbox, and other Microsoft platforms
• Migrating ingestion workloads from legacy in-memory pipelines to the Northstar ingestion architecture
• Data format optimization: converting JSON and Bond payloads to Parquet, improving the Parquet library, and running benchmark experiments
• Contributing to ODS (Output Delivery Service), a core routing service, including SFMC migration away from CSES

Working daily within the Azure ecosystem (Portal, Service Fabric, EV2, Geneva) with deep operational knowledge of Azure infrastructure.

Shutterstock (Jan 2022 – Nov 2024)

Software Engineer I → II → Software Engineer III (Search)
https://www.shutterstock.com/

Software Engineer on the Search team at Shutterstock.

Built features and performance improvements for the search service (Java/Spring Boot), enabling faster querying across the content index (Apache Solr), improved content segmentation, and refactored boosting logic to reduce development time.
Developed a parity compliance job to verify index integrity against upstream APIs within configurable time windows.
Extended Editorial Search capabilities using Elasticsearch and integrated Datadog monitoring via Terraform for cluster-wide observability.
Managed A/B testing within the Search Platform to optimize ranking parameters and improve key performance indicators.

Brightflag (2 Years, 6 Months)

Software Engineer (Product/Tooling)
https://www.brightflag.com/

Full-stack Software Engineer at Brightflag, a legal technology company focused on legal spend management.

Developed and maintained core product features and internal tooling across the full stack (Java/Spring Boot, React, SQL). Grew significantly in software design, cross-team collaboration, and understanding of enterprise SaaS patterns.

Key contributions:
• Data migration tooling (MVC architecture)
• Public API development and maintenance
• SME for SAML-based Single Sign-On and SCIM user provisioning
• Internal tooling (React)
• AWS services (S3, CloudWatch, EC2, SQS, SNS)

Bloomberg Polarlake (6 Months)

Software Engineer Intern
https://www.bloombergpolarlake.com/

Software Engineer Intern on the DevOps team at Bloomberg Polarlake.

Contributed to several microservice backends, implementing features for disaster recovery and operational automation. Gained hands-on experience with Spring, Angular, Django, and Ansible in a fast-paced financial technology environment.

Christopher's Furniture Services (3 Months)

Furniture Movement Employee

General Laborer, Christopher's Furniture. I Worked in Team A and gained great social & team-building skills. I was a strong energizer of the group, kept my team focused, and consistently determined.

Hemingway's Seafood Restaurant (2 Years)

Waiter and Kitchen Porter

Worked with my Employer & Colleagues in a team environment to fulfill the desires of customers. Took customer orders, served food, served customers needs & wants. Responsibility to maintain the restaurant in absence of the manager or supervisor.

Spar Retail Store (1 Year)

Retail Store Clerk

Helping customers throughout the store with their various needs and wants relating to shop items. Responsibility to maintain the store & tills. Kept the store clean and stocked throughout a particular shift and helped other staff when I had spare time. Focus was customer satisfaction & team-interaction.