Resume
This provides a concise summary of my professional experience.
Principal Platform & Software Engineer
I am a hands-on technical leader with over 20 years of experience taking cloud and data platforms from zero to one, currently a Senior Software Engineer at Clerk, where I engineer the real-time data behind its growth from best-in-class authentication into the leading authentication & user management platform.
I pair high-level architectural strategy with daily, in-the-code engineering, translating complex business goals into scalable, full-stack systems (Go, React/TypeScript) and the internal developer platforms that help teams move faster. Along the way I have delivered platforms with real, measurable business impact and mentored infrastructure engineers into modern software roles.
Core Skills
- Technical Leadership & Strategy: System Architecture, Technical Roadmaps, Cloud FinOps, Mentorship & Coaching.
- Platform & Cloud Engineering: Platform Engineering (IDPs), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloudflare (Workers, edge/serverless compute), Kubernetes (K8s), Cloud Run, Terraform, CI/CD, DevOps.
- Full-Stack & Data: Go (GoLang), Python, React/TypeScript, SQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, gRPC.
- Real-Time Data & Reliability: Streaming/event pipelines, real-time analytics, read-model design, observability (Datadog, Sentry), production reliability engineering.
- Emerging Technology: AI/LLMs, Agentic AI, Recommendation Frameworks.
Experience Summary
Senior Software Engineer
Clerk.com | Dec 2025 - Present
Hands-on engineer on the data behind Clerk's platform as it grows from best-in-class authentication into the leading authentication & user management platform. Designed and shipped a real-time, cross-stack engagement-signal pipeline from edge collection through a streaming backend to a new API; led an analytics reliability initiative that cut dashboard error volume substantially; and shipped GitHub-style user/org activity views on new analytics read-models. Also contributed an upstream fix to TanStack Query and open-sourced a standalone ClickHouse health monitor.
Core Stack: Go (Golang), React/TypeScript, ClickHouse, Cloudflare (edge/serverless), Cloud Run, Datadog/Sentry.
Focus: Real-time analytics, platform reliability and observability, and data architecture at the intersection of security and developer experience.
Lead Engineer, Efficiency & Data Platforms
Target Corporation | 2018 - 2025
Promoted to architect platforms providing data-driven insights into infrastructure cost, technical debt, and lifecycle management. Led development of FinOps recommendation engines that drove $31M+ in cost avoidance. Architected the "Infra Showback Hub" (Go, BigQuery, React) and mentored/coached engineering teams.
Lead Software Engineer, Infrastructure Data
Target Corporation | 2015 - 2018
Pivoted to software leadership, building foundational data aggregation platforms. Spearheaded the "Iceberg/Compass" initiative (Go, React, Mongo) and designed the "avalanche-framework," an inner-sourced Go SDK to accelerate developer velocity.
Senior Systems Engineer, Infrastructure & Security
Target Corporation | 2004 - 2015
Led infrastructure architecture and enterprise security for mission-critical systems. Managed PCI/compliance and engineered the OS for 45,000+ POS registers across 1,800+ stores.
Education
- Associate of Arts - North Hennepin Community College
- Completed 126 credits towards a Bachelor of Science in Business/E-Business