Summary
Principal-level engineer and former co-founder and CTO with a track record building cloud platforms, developer tools, and distributed systems. Led technical work on Dapr and Azure Container Apps at Microsoft, pioneered build-acceleration technology as co-founder of YourBase, and owned the AWS Well-Architected performance pillar. Currently a Staff Software Engineer at Ethyca building data privacy and governance infrastructure. Also an author and university lecturer.
Recent Projects
A brief list of some of the high-impact work from the past several years:
- Designed and built dynamic, pluggable components and the workflow engine for Dapr, a CNCF platform for building microservices
- Developed cold-start technology for Azure Container Apps that reduced startup times to under 250ms
- Pioneered build acceleration at YourBase that cut build and test times from as much as 2 hours to 15 minutes using eBPF tracing and dependency graph analysis
- Owned the performance pillar of the AWS Well-Architected framework and delivered training at re:Invent
- Launched Dapr-enabled features in Azure and native support for Aspire in Container Apps
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer @ Ethyca
November 2025 - Present
Staff Software Engineer on privacy, consent, and governance infrastructure, focused on scaling the platform for enterprise customers.
- Increased service throughput from 400 to 6,000 TPS per core (15×), enabling the platform to support larger enterprise customers
- Tasked with ensuring the platform scales to meet growing enterprise customer demand
- Modernized CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and engineering workflows
- Resolved complex enterprise integration issues through hands-on customer engineering
- Improved AI-assisted tooling for developer productivity and product delivery
Principal Engineer @ Microsoft
April 2022 - July 2025
Principal engineer and engineering manager across Dapr open source and Azure Container Apps.
- Reduced Azure Container Apps cold-start latency to under 250ms
- Increased workload density by 40%+ on the Container Apps virtualized pod fabric, improving security, elasticity, and infrastructure efficiency
- Shipped on-demand GPU launch for customer LLM inference and training at scale
- Architected Dapr pluggable components and workflow engine; elected to the Dapr Steering and Technical Committee
- Led team as engineering manager through a transition, shipping Dapr-on-Azure features and native Aspire support in Container Apps
- Drove launch of Dapr-integrated Azure services and customer-facing Container Apps capabilities
CTO & Co-Founder @ YourBase
March 2019 - January 2022
Co-founded and led engineering for build-acceleration technology used in customer CI/CD pipelines.
- Reduced build and test times from 2 hours to 15 minutes using eBPF tracing, runtime hooks, and dependency-graph analysis to skip unaffected work
- Deployed with engineering teams at Venmo, Gusto, Instacart, and Intuit
- Led an 8-engineer team through invention, productization, and customer integration at a 12-person startup
- Raised $5M in seed funding
- Delivered acceleration tooling for Ruby, Python, and Java codebases
Performance Lead, Well-Architected @ Amazon Web Services
September 2018 - March 2019
Owned the Performance pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Defined the Performance pillar guidance used by customers worldwide to evaluate and improve workloads
- Authored training and reference content on application and infrastructure performance on AWS
- Presented performance and scalability sessions at AWS re:Invent
Senior Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web Services
June 2017 - September 2018
Solutions architect for research and healthcare organizations adopting AWS.
- Advised large nonprofits and research institutions—including Fred Hutch and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance—on AWS architecture and operations
- Delivered training, reference architectures, proofs of concept, and hands-on implementation support
A curriculum vitae with earlier roles, research, teaching, publications, education, and skills is also available.