I've been fortunate to be in positions of shipping engineering and product work at AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog, and Microsoft. Those
experiences shaped into the person I am today.
Amazon Web Services — Associate Cloud Consultant Intern
Remote
May 2021 – Dec 2021
First-experience diving into the Public sector. Great experience in understanding the Authority-to-Operate process and the level of scrutiny/specification needed to successfully operate within Government spaces.
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Led a team of 4 interns in architecting an automated security and compliance cloud
CI/CD DevOps pipeline with AWS CDK for government deliverables. Supported frameworks included HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and PCI-DSS.
Projected a 40% reduction in Authority-to-Operate (ATO) approval timelines for
government customers.
A Mini-MBA where I learned the ropes from a phenomenal product strategy director. They threw me into the deep-end where I ran the Compliance Monitoring beta across 300+ enterprise customers. Spent a lot of time in Salesforce, but helping close customers was a wonderful experience. In my spare time, I built multi-agent browser automation scripts with Puppeteer to automate cloud detection-rule analysis that cut research time by 50% for our product team.
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Led the Compliance Monitoring beta: onboarding, deployments, feedback, and support
for 300+ enterprise customers across AMER, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
Ran prospective customer calls, risk and security posture assessments, and pitches to
security, GRC, directors, and executives.
Reduced product research time by 50% by automating AWS and Azure detection-rule
analysis with Python and Puppeteer.
Through multiple iterations and "fuck it, ship it" moments, my intern project snowballed into Cloudflare Radar and shipped during 2020 Birthday Week in 12 weeks, turning global network telemetry into a public internet intelligence product.
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Co-Led 0-to-1 development of Cloudflare Radar using Cloudflare’s global network and
anonymized 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver data.
Turned trillions of passive measurement points into a queryable interface for
traffic patterns, L3/L7 attacks, disruptions, and protocol adoption.
Coordinated executive leadership, engineering, threat intelligence, and design from
idea to public release within 12 weeks.
Redesigned the Game Bar Audio Widget from telemetry and customer research, then shipped
features in the Windows RS5+ release against MAD and C-STAT goals. Additionally, I mentored the Head of Global University Recruiting and helped lead the Intern Lunch and Learn program, an initiative that connected thousands of interns with directors and executives over lunch across Microsoft during the Summer. I also MC'd the Intern Signature Event.
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Led the Xbox Game Bar Audio Widget redesign to improve process discoverability,
audio-management feedback, and input-device control.
Used telemetry and customer feedback to generate feature ideas and a prioritized
roadmap aligned with design and engineering capacity.
Tracked success with Game Bar MAD, C-STAT, and Widget MAD; features shipped in the
Windows RS5+ release after the internship.
Microsoft — Software Engineer Intern, Team Xbox
Redmond, WA
May 2018 – Aug 2018
Prototyped the Game Bar Mixer Viewer experience in C++, CX, and XAML with
picture-in-picture live streaming.
Microsoft — Explorer Intern, Team Xbox
Redmond, WA
May 2017 – Aug 2017
Shipped NAT refresh and alternate port selection features to 70 million consoles,
cutting networking-related support costs by about $400,000 per year.
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Built the NAT Refresh feature so users could troubleshoot multiplayer gaming and
party chat issues in C#, C++, and XAML.
Built Alternative Port Selection for multiplayer, party chat, and console streaming
on networks with multiple active consoles.
Shipped both features to 70 million consoles and reduced Microsoft Customer Service
Center networking-related support costs by about $400,000 annually.
Leadership
HexLabs — Director of Communications
Atlanta, GA
Nov 2017 – Aug 2019
Helped build a 501(c)(3) for STEAM education; campaigns generated
20,000+ applications and raised $500,000+ across
300+ sponsors.
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Helped build a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to STEAM education in collegiate and
underserved high school communities.
Led 15 direct reports on communication and marketing campaigns that generated over
20,000 applications.
Led 10 direct reports on sponsorships, raising over $500,000 from 300+ sponsors.
Executive team managed 65 members and a portfolio of 7+ large-scale annual
hackathons and community events.
