Site Reliablity Engineer
@John Deere // Moline, IL
Feb 2022 – Present
• Developed an MCP tool that retrieves Backstage entities and resources owned by individual engineers, providing a centralized view of ownership and simplifying large-scale changes across repositories
• Built Backstage Soundcheck checks to identify unused resources and outdated Amazon RDS and AWS Lambda versions across John Deere infrastructure and developed AI skills to evaluate findings and recommend remediation
• Led a hackathon team to build an AI-powered dependency vulnerability scanner using OpenSSF; placed in the top five among more than 20 projects
• Prototyped an interactive game in Godot for a team hackathon project, helping engineers learn new skills in a gamified environment; the project was selected as a finalist among 26 projects
• Collaborated with senior engineers to modernize legacy ServiceNow incident integrations into a reliable v2 architecture using AWS services, enabling automated incident creation from multiple observability platforms and a custom API source for engineers across John Deere
• Built an internal open-source tool management platform from scratch, streamlining the review process and supporting the registration of more than 350 tools
• Collaborated with teammates to build an SRE landing page that centralized engineering resources
• Provide on-call support for SRE-owned services by remediating security vulnerabilities, troubleshooting production issues, and answering technical questions related to Datadog, observability, and SRE best practices
Software Developer
@Bright Power, Inc // New York, NY
Sep 2021 – Jan 2022
• Optimized MySQL queries by converting views into tables; Increased loading time from 1 minute to 2 seconds
• Implemented new features and fixed backend bugs with the help of senior engineers; closed 35 Python tickets
• Researched Tableau JavaScript API embed in Angular project
• Utilized: Python, MySQL, Angular, Rancher, Docker, AWS
Web Developer & Help Desk Technician
@Luther College Technology Services
Mar 2019 – May 2021
• Provided technical support to Luther College community: effectively troubleshot 2400 tickets/year
Pianist
@Luther College Peace Dining Center
Sept 2017 – Sept 2020
• Played relaxing classical, jazz, church, and cover piano music on every Sunday morning at Luther College Peace Dining Center
