kong · sr software engineer · jan '22 -- aug '25

fixed authorization when it broke under enterprise load, then rebuilt it right. shipped search -- cross-product, near-real-time, from ad-hoc client filtering to a centralized index. shipped pats as the platform's machine-auth story. four years of foundational work that made konnect an enterprise product.

nike · lead software engineer · oct '19 -- dec '21

three bets: a paas for standardized deployment across thousands of aws accounts, a data catalog for ai/ml flow discovery enterprise-wide, and the sdks, terraform providers, and cli (nikectl) that made adoption stick.

nike · software engineer manager · sep '18 -- oct '19

devops & infrastructure. identity, networking, and observability models which scaled thousands of cloud accounts. half the team r&d, half embedded. adoption by presence & collaboration, not mandate.

nike · senior software engineer · apr '14 -- sep '18

converted from cms to platform engineer. moved nike.com off vendor-managed hardware to self-managed infrastructure (ucs/vmware+openstack). 17 weeks from boxes open to cutover. iamnande was born (iykyk).

u.s. bank · system administrator · mar '12 -- apr '14

started with teamsite and a myspace profile. stood up usbank.com & call-center search via google search appliance. automated everything in reach -- deployments, identity, audit reports. first taste of what's possible.

u.s. army reserve · platoon sergeant, multi-role bridge · mar '10 -- aug '23

kicked a TON of rocks before i led. learned how to "life" with the finest of engineers. trained hundreds of humans and dozens of operators across units and nations.

you ever wish a highly-specific game companion app existed to help craft character builds? i definitely didn't build my own calculator for card to magic refinement calculations for such a purpose. (shhh, don't tell my other projects)

righteous authorization with rust -- like the hipster gods intended. lightning fast (20M checks/s), pluggable component architecture -- in-memory by default, distributed when you need it. no za for you.

the journey to a home lab worth fighting for. more docs than code right now.