I am a graduate of the Cornell University Information Science program, and now a professional software engineer, specializing in web, server, and infrastructure technologies. I have had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of services at many different scales.
Much of my day-to-day work includes designing and building backend and infrastructure systems. This involves defining a problem, working through possible solutions, choosing the best one given our constraints, architecting the system, simplifying the architecture to its most crucial components, and implementing the system.
I am most well-known for maintaining Jekyll for 5 years, an open-source static site generator created by a GitHub Co-founder.
Google, Inc
September 2021 – Present
Improving the Google Play Store on Android devices large and small. play.google.com →
GitHub, Inc
February 2019 - September 2021
Helping improve reliability at GitHub, both in its technology and in its processes. github.com →
GitHub, Inc
January 2018 - February 2019
GitHub Actions founding team member, helping bring the product to a big announcement at GitHub Universe in October 2018 and to private beta. github.com →
GitHub, Inc
January 2016 - January 2018
All things GitHub Pages at GitHub. github.com →
Visual Supply Co.
August 2014 – December 2015
I worked for 16 months at Visual Supply Co (a.k.a. VSCO) implementing web APIs of all sorts to support the continued growth of the platform. vsco.co →
GitHub, Inc.
November 2013 - July 2014
Worked closely with @github/pages team on a part-time basis while completing my degree. Accomplishments:
Visual Supply Co.
January 2014
Spent two weeks interning on the Web Team at VSCO, building a brand new feature: VSCOGrid Map Search. Discover cities and towns all around the world by way of beautiful, hand-picked images on VSCOGrid Map Search. Take it for a spin by discovering Berlin →
6Wunderkinder GmbH, Berlin, Germany
February 2013 - August 2013
As an intern on the Backend Team at 6Wunderkinder, I was tasked with aiding in the creation and maintainence of the various APIs for Wunderlist and related services. I contributed largely to our analytics technologies and our API services (mostly Ruby on Rails). I grew far more familiar with various server technologies (especially nginx, and AWS Cloud Infrastructure), Ruby, vim, Postgres, MySQL, and greatly increased my Unix-fu, all of which I still use to this day.
Microsoft acquired Wunderlist in June 2015.
Leacock’s Online Magazine, Montréal, PQ
February 2011 - December 2013
Completed entire site redesign (Summer 2011) and completing all programming-related tasks. Worked with a design team to produce website designs, then implemented them myself. Re-design released Fall 2011. leacocks.com →
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Office of Communications, Ithaca, NY
May 2012 - August 2012
My work was varied. I helped move CALS’ website from CommonSpot (a ColdFusion-based CMS) to Jekyll for the Aug. 1, 2012 launch, and created a Subscription Manger. I worked with a small (but stellar) team of two people at the Office of Communications.
Parker Moore Photography, Rochester, NY
Created a freelance photography business. Hired by fellow students, teachers, and local artists for senior portraits, headshots and group photographs. Created an online portfolio at https://www.parkermoorephotography.com/ which has since been discontinued.
Ithaca, New York — Information Science ‘14
Information Science is a Computer Science-adjacent field, focusing a bit more on the effect digital systems have on society and the individual. We studied and built large-scale information systems, experimented with new modes of human-computer interaction, and learned about the current landscape of technology policy in the United States.
I spent my first year at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where I studied Linguistics and Political Philosophy. I transferred to Cornell in the Fall of 2011 and transferred to the Department of Computing & Information Science.
During my time in university, I fostered a love for open source software. I participated in discussions, contributed code, and even had the opportunity to lead a large open source project for 5 years.
Fairport, New York — Regents Diploma with Honors ‘10