Site reliability engineer specializing in the programming,
administration, and troubleshooting of production Linux systems within
trading platforms. 9+ years of development and operations experience.
Strong skills in Unix internals, shell scripting, system administration,
and debugging, from userspace to the kernel. Experienced in C, Python,
Perl, and Ocaml, as well as networking, storage, and infrastructure
management of both bare-metal servers and virtual machines. Extensive
knowledge of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris-based operating
systems. Highly motivated engineer that can solve low-level systems
issues in fast-paced environments.
Work Experience
Linux Engineer at REDACTED,
Inc. (Remote) 2021-present
Details forthcoming.
Linux Engineer at Jane Street (New York,
NY) 2018-2021
Investigated production errors and performance regressions using
packet captures, userspace profiling, and kernel instrumentation.
Maintained Linux infrastructure and developed management tools for
network storage systems.
Diagnosed performance bottlenecks in NFS application workflows and
client/server implementations.
Designed and implemented automated systems for the deployment,
configuration management, and monitoring of Linux hosts.
Wrote patches for bug fixes and performance improvements for various
open source applications in the GNU/Linux ecosystem.
Site Reliability Engineer at Thesys
CAT (Charleston, SC) 2017-2018
Designed infrastructure, networking, and operations strategies for
the implementation of the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail.
Led infrastructure rollout and configuration management effort using
Ansible for hundreds of bare metal and cloud servers.
Implemented Kerberos-based authentication system for both
applications and user accounts.
Built an object storage solution using FreeBSD and ZFS nearing a
petabyte of usable space.
Created automated build and packaging pipeline for in-house software
repositories.
DevOps Engineer at Thesys
Technologies (Charleston, SC) 2016-2017
Implemented market access software in C for Tilera’s TILE64
architecture, supporting over $1 billion per day of order volume.
Improved the accuracy of distributed C-based client risk checks
while maintaining low order latency.
Responsible for implementation and monitoring of a C++-based
software trading platform as part of trading technologies DevOps
team.
Coordinated network connectivity and colocation with clients and
stock exchanges in North America.
Assessed and resolved real-time trading and connectivity issues in a
high-stress environment while managing relationships with
customers.
Software Engineer at SPARC
(Charleston, SC) 2015-2016
Developed benefit management software for the Department of Veterans
Affairs using Java, Spring Framework, and AngularJS.
Led a special performance team which identified and mitigated
application bottlenecks.
Achieved a >10x speedup by refactoring application-layer ORM
logic into more efficient database queries.
Created and maintained CentOS VM images for Oracle Database.
Graduate Research Assistant at Clemson University
(Clemson, SC) 2013-2015
Designed and implemented a middleware system for watershed-scale
sensor networks using Java and NodeJS.
Maintained a middleware backend which served over 50 live ecological
sensor deployment sites across South Carolina.
Independently developed a metadata management system for sensor
network hardware, which was presented at IEEE and ACM conferences.