// what I do for a living
Work
I like the unglamorous end of software: performance, caches, kernels, the bug nobody found for four years.
Software engineer at Ironsite
// before4 roles
Amazon
2024 – 2026
Software Development Engineer
- Found and fixed a four-year-old lazy-loading bug in Amazon's JavaScript UI framework. Pages got 20% lighter and the fix was worth $522M in incremental sales.
- Made CDN cache invalidation 67% faster with rate-based scheduling across CDNs, built in Rust on Lambda and Step Functions.
- Added native HEIC support to the C++ image pipeline, ending two years of iPhone uploads silently failing.
- Wrote a C++ memory profiler and a benchmark gate that blocks performance regressions before they ship.
- Built an agentic CLI in Go that a fifth of the org picked up within a month.
DraftKings
Summer 2024
Data Engineering Intern
- Automated the player-image pipeline with fuzzy matching across 5,000+ names, cutting manual work by 85%.
Amazon Web Services
Summer 2023
Software Development Engineer Intern
- Cut a slice of Amazon Transcribe's costs 8x with a DynamoDB lookup cache, and added real-time usage monitoring.
City of Aurora
Summer 2022
Data Engineering Intern
- Moved a 30+ table legacy database onto PostgreSQL on Azure.
// studied2024
UW–Madison
2024
B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Wisconsin–Madison