Work & Experience

Technical Leader

Cisco — Security Business Group, Common Services Platform

Technical lead for shared platform services powering Cisco's security portfolio. Shipped Context Service to GA, built IAM foundations for multi-tenant customers, and drove an AI-augmented engineering practice that measurably improved velocity and quality.

• Pioneered AI-assisted development across the team using Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT—cut capacity needs by ~60% and accelerated time-to-market through evidence-based workflows and hands-on coaching
• Shipped Context Service to GA: led hardening, compliance, and security readiness; iterated rapidly on Multi-Org Beta feedback to deliver a release celebrated at Partner Summit
• Designed and built IAM for managed service providers and multi-org customers, including deep-dive investigation into unified identity integration and rapid proof-of-concept delivery
• Delivered core platform APIs, auditing, and integration testing that enabled consistent policy enforcement across Cisco's Secure Access and SD-WAN products
• Drove delivery velocity improvements—1.1-hour median PR merge time—through test automation, infrastructure investment, and proactive release planning
• Explored and de-risked future initiatives (Device Insights, Zero Trust posture, asset inventory, tenancy/access control) through discovery work and POCs
• Multiplied team effectiveness: mentored engineers, led hackathons, ran knowledge-sharing sessions, and partnered across product, security, and infrastructure teams

Go, Kubernetes, AWS, gRPC, MongoDB, AI/LLM tooling (Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT)

Senior Engineering Manager

Lucid Motors — Cloud & Data Engineering

Led the cloud and data platform teams responsible for Lucid's connected vehicle infrastructure—the services that link every Lucid on the road to the company's operations and customer apps.

• Managed 13 engineers (7 direct, 6 indirect) across platform and data engineering
• Drove architecture decisions and delivery for cloud services powering vehicle connectivity, telemetry, and customer experience
• Partnered with product, program management, and cross-functional engineering to align priorities and ship on schedule

Senior Staff Engineer

Lucid Motors — Cloud Microservices & IoT

Lead architect for cloud services spanning the full vehicle lifecycle—from factory floor through delivery to the customer's mobile app and beyond.

• Designed and shipped the Lucid Developer Portal and App Marketplace, enabling third-party integrations with OAuth2, admin tools, and partner onboarding
• Architected APIs (gRPC/REST) for manufacturing, delivery, service, telemetry, OTA updates, and remote vehicle commands
• Built charging infrastructure and mobile network integrations connecting every Lucid to external partners
• Owned backend architecture for the Lucid mobile app—the primary interface between customers and their vehicles

Go, gRPC, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, React

Senior Staff Engineer

Lucid Motors — Infotainment Platform

Android platform engineering for the Lucid Air's in-vehicle experience, plus deep vehicle diagnostics tooling.

• Extended the Android framework network stack so infotainment apps could respond to real-time vehicle connectivity state
• Created sigdump—a comprehensive tool for capturing, parsing, analyzing, and replaying CAN bus signals over ethernet, now used across engineering for diagnostics and debugging

Android/AOSP, Java, C/C++, Networking, CAN bus

Technical Leader

Cisco — SecureX / SSE / AIS Cloud

Core contributor to Cisco's security platform—identity, authorization, telemetry ingestion, and endpoint posture services processing billions of events monthly.

• Built and operated a high-throughput firewall event ingestion service processing billions of events/month, feeding Cisco Threat Response, Talos, Stealthwatch Cloud, and Defense Orchestrator
• Implemented the core processor for Endpoint Security Posture—ingesting and reconciling endpoint state from AMP, DUO, ISE, and MDM systems for real-time security decisions
• Extended SecureX Sign-On with social login and third-party identity provider support
• Created device and event simulators enabling comprehensive end-to-end and load testing

Go, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB

Senior Software Engineer

Nubeva

Early-stage startup building cloud network visibility and security tooling.

• Built control plane components for network packet capture and security workflows in public cloud environments
• Hellped establishe agile practices and engineering tooling for a growing team

Go, Python, Azure, Docker, iptables, nfqueue

Technical Leader

Cisco — Integrated Threat Defense Cloud Team

Designed foundational infrastructure for Cisco's threat intelligence platform—a stream processing system aggregating security telemetry from multiple product lines at scale.

• Created a reusable Go microservice framework integrating Kafka, Consul, Vault, MongoDB, OAuth, Kubernetes, DataDog, and Elasticsearch—adopted across the platform
• Built the raw telemetry ingest pipeline aggregating data from Lancope, Firepower, ISE, and AnyConnect for downstream threat analysis
• Drove product security hardening, CI/CD infrastructure, and developer environment improvements
• Developed simulators for end-to-end, integration, and scale testing

Go, Scala, Google Cloud, Flink, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes

Founder / Principal Engineer

Virga Software

Solo founder building a cross-platform WiFi diagnostics product from scratch—conception through working product.

• Designed and built a cross-platform WiFi troubleshooting tool with native agents for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
• Full-stack solo delivery: platform-native clients, cloud backend, and web-based analysis dashboard

Go, JavaScript/AngularJS, Java, C#, Objective-C, AWS

Principal Engineer

NetScout Systems (Fluke Networks / AirMagnet)

Led mobile and cloud modernization for the WiFi test & measurement product line.

• Shipped 2 new WiFi test & measurement products and multiple maintenance releases on schedule
• Led engineering for mobile (Android) and cloud-connected product initiatives
• Drove team adoption of modern version control, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
• Built feasibility prototypes and proof-of-concepts that shaped the product roadmap

Go, Java (Android), JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, AWS

Senior Application Developer

Ruckus Wireless

Mobile application development and RF visualization tooling for enterprise wireless network management.

• Invented and prototyped a 3D WiFi planning tool—filed patent application for "Modeling Radio Frequency Coverage"
• Shipped Spectrum Analyzer feature for ZD Remote mobile app on Android and iOS
• Enhanced throughput measurement and network diagnostic capabilities

Java (Android), Objective-C (iOS), OpenGL, C/C++, C#

Principal Engineer

NetScout Systems (AirMagnet)

Core engineer on award-winning WiFi analysis products—multiple patents and critical contributions to AirMagnet's market-leading position.

• Built a replacement spectrum analyzer from scratch when the OEM solution was discontinued—saved a major product line from revenue loss
• Conceived, designed, and shipped multiple AirMagnet product features, several of which were patented
• Major contributor to 802.11 protocol analysis IP: packet decoding, performance analysis, security detection, and compliance checking

C/C++, Java (Android), SQL, .NET/Managed C++

Director, Software Development

LitePoint (promoted from MTS → Sr. SE → Director)

Built test software and APIs for wireless chipset manufacturing at a company whose equipment has tested billions of consumer devices worldwide.

• Designed APIs for WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, WiMedia, and Zigbee device testing—software used to test billions of shipped devices
• Grew from individual contributor to Director: led and mentored the software team, managed IT infrastructure
• Built visualization UIs for RF signal processing, DSP analysis, and instrument control
• Established engineering practices: version control, build systems, and release management

C/C++, .NET, MATLAB, LabVIEW; MFC, WinForms; instrument control

Web Developer / Software Engineer

Independent Consultant (eLogicSys, Studio1691, clients)

Independent web development and software consulting during the first dot-com boom—building for startups and established businesses alike.

• Delivered corporate websites, interactive media experiences, and Flash-based applications
• Built custom e-commerce platforms, content management systems, and form-driven web apps
• Developed reporting dashboards, monitoring tools, and backend business applications

Perl, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, C/C++, Flash