Work Experience
My professional journey across infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, and full-stack development.
General Mills
Jan 2025 - Present
Data Engineer – Ecommerce
Mar 2026 - PresentDallas, TX (Remote)
PythonBigQueryAirflowCloud ComposerGCP
- Refactored Airflow DAGs on Cloud Composer – replacing duplicated BigQuery queries with a reusable Python utility – enabling dynamic schedule configuration and reducing DAG startup overhead.
Infrastructure Engineer – Hosting
Nov 2025 - Mar 2026Dallas, TX (Remote)
GolangKubernetesGKETerraformDockerRedisArgoCDGitHub Actions
- Built a microservices-based domain inventory platform serving as single source of truth for 2,700+ domains across Kubernetes and WPEngine, eliminating brute-force cross-system searches and cutting incident troubleshooting time significantly.
- Engineered a hybrid consistency model combining event-driven K8s reconciliation with scheduled full-cluster batch sync.
- Developed end-to-end WP Engine domain integration: API client, relational schema and River-based scheduled workers.
- Optimized cross-platform domain lookups by replacing a Redis stream backend with a redis hashtable cache.
- Automated K8s dev env teardown via an Argo-workflow, eliminating manual cleanup and preventing resource waste.
- Resolved 50+ SNOW tickets across DNS, Firewall, Network Policy, GHA, Vault, and GKE, collaborated with global teams.
- Migrated on-prem IIS sites to GKE, modernizing legacy infrastructure and improving reliability and scalability.
Associate Infrastructure Engineer – Hosting
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025Remote
KubernetesGKETerraformIstioFluxArgoCDGatekeeperSourcegraphInfoblox
- Managed production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure in GKE using GitOps (Flux/ArgoCD), Terraform and Istio.
- Overhauled DNS audit platform to reduce latency ~50% via parallelized data fetching, batch upserts and memoization.
- Hardened GKE security by enforcing modern TLS standards and blocking violators via Gatekeeper.
- Delivered an org-wide Sourcegraph batch change across 250+ applications, remediating TLS and cipher suite violations.
- Audited and cleaned up 35+ outdated K8s workloads, removing 179K+ lines of unused code reducing cluster bloat.
- Automated DNS management by adding Terraform support for Infoblox record creation, eliminating manual workflow.
Software Engineer – Part Time
John Deere
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025Johnston, IA (Hybrid)
Next.jsReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaTerraformJenkinsDockerAWS
- Developed full-stack features and resolved bugs for an app used by 470+ managers to manage 2000+ employees.
- Designed a Jenkins pipeline to deploy AWS infrastructure and log S3 bucket changes to CloudWatch.
- Migrated several application functionalities to serverless architecture using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, improving efficiency and reducing overhead.
- Automated S3 data cleanup and Lambda function deployment processes.
Platform Engineer Intern (D&T)
General Mills
May 2024 - Aug 2024Minneapolis, MN (On-site)
GolangReactTypeScriptTerraformDockerPostgreSQLGORMGitHub ActionsGKEHashiCorp VaultArgoCD
- Built an application for centralized domain management saving the business up to $32–64k/year.
- Automated domain auditing via API integrations reducing a month-long process to a week.
- Architected a database and implemented a system to identify and decommission unused domains.
- Enhanced domain security protecting the company from domain hijacks. Deployed application to K8s cluster.
Software Engineer (Intern & Part-time)
John Deere Financial
May 2023 - May 2024Johnston, IA (Hybrid)
Next.jsReactTypeScriptPrismaSQLGitHub Actions
- Implemented major features and debugged multiple issues for an internal application saving the company upwards of $18k annually.
- Collaborated with team engineers to implement Security Updates, API interactions and Code Migrations.
- Managed Pipelines and Databases, refactored React components and practiced Test Driven Development.
- Created GitHub Actions and workflows to automate resetting employee statuses for auditing.
- Functioned in a SCRUM team adhering to Agile, was active in meetings, standups, sprints and code reviews.
Computer Science Help Room Tutor
Iowa State University
Aug 2022 - May 2023Ames, IA
PythonJavaData StructuresAlgorithmsOOPDiscrete Math
- Tutored Python, OOP in Java, Data Structures and Algorithms, and Discrete Computational Structures.
- Helped students with their projects, assignments, debugging, and taught complex topics.
Advanced Calculus Tutor
Iowa State University
Jan 2022 - May 2022Ames, IA
CalculusPre-CalculusMathematicsTeaching
- Tutored Advanced Calculus and Pre Calculus.
- Led multiple batches and helped increase grade average by 10-15%.