I build tooling and services that make teams faster, production more reliable, and put experiences in the hands of users. At work, I stick to a value-driven mindset aiming to balance architectural complexity with value-in-hand, through the use of Azure, Kubernetes, .NET, React, Terraform, and many other technologies. I care about maintainability and performance, and I'm driven by solving problems that create measurable value.
Some accomplishments I'm proud of: reduced category API latency from ~27s to <1s, cut containerized deployments from ~65m to <10m, and standardized observability with OpenTelemetry + New Relic, which improved incident diagnosis and reduced mean time to resolution. I'm collaborative, detail-oriented, and always looking to grow.
Staff Software Engineer — Milwaukee Tool
Own platform architecture and shared developer tooling for public-facing web and API teams to improve reliability, consistency, and developer velocity.
- Built a multi-region BFF/API Gateway with .NET , YARP , and Azure Front Door , replacing disparate NGINX instances and centralizing routing in Azure App Configuration . Result: fewer outages (from ~3×10min/month to ~1×2min/month), regional failover, and support for zero‑downtime A/B tests.
- Piloted and scaled a shared React design system ( Tailwind CSS + Storybook ) now used by 4 products to enforce brand consistency and reduce duplicated components; design review moved earlier in the process as a result.
- Built an internal ASP.NET Core service framework (internal NuGet) that wraps the IHostApplicationBuilder to provide startup validation, sensible defaults for health checks, service discovery, and troubleshooting helpers.
- Led migration to centralized configuration and secrets (Azure App Configuration + Azure Key Vault ), consolidating routing and reducing config-related runtime errors.
- Integrated Statsig for feature flags and experimentation: feature flags for engineering rollouts and A/B tests for UX experiments, with an internal-first rollout pattern.
- Spearheaded a production GPT-4-turbo assistant using Semantic Kernel to help sales reps at retailers; field users report a 63% happiness rating via in-app feedback.
- Standardized observability with OpenTelemetry + New Relic (logged via ILogger ), giving consistent traces and logs across front-end and backend services and improving incident diagnosis.
Senior Software Engineer — Milwaukee Tool
Rebuilt our frontend into an SSR React app and re-architected product data delivery so category pages and listing APIs became fast and predictable.
- Migrated the frontend from .NET MVC to React SSR with Next.js , consolidating views and simplifying the UI surface for faster iterations.
- Rebuilt the product-data strategy (category indexing + client caching at the time) and reduced category API response times from ~27s (and page loads as high as ~55s for some listing pages) to under 1 second for category queries, even when returning 2,000+ products.
- Architected a dedicated product-data microservice with pub/sub distribution using Azure Service Bus , which fed downstream consumers and helped shrink client-facing listing latency (up to ~7-20x on affected pages).
- Introduced Terraform and IaC patterns, authoring core modules and moving deployments from manual steps to code, improving reproducibility and discoverability of infra settings across envs.
- Restructured parts of the monolith into vertical microservices and CI/CD pipelines, which cut build/deploy times (some teams went from ~75 minutes to under 8 minutes) and enabled parallel workstreams.
- Standardized deployments with Azure DevOps Pipelines, Azure Container Registry, and AKS , and instrumented services with OpenTelemetry + New Relic for consistent telemetry.
- Mentored peers, led monthly knowledge-sharing sessions, and partnered with InfoSec to introduce static analysis and traffic monitoring where needed.
Software Engineer II — Milwaukee Tool
Published a small internal NuGet for startup validation, owned AKS reproducibility, and extracted a product domain from our Sitecore monolith so a small team could deploy independently.
- Published an internal NuGet package to our Azure DevOps artifact feed implementing an IOptions validation pattern. The package validated final IOptions bindings (presence of keys, connection strings, loaded secrets) and emitted standard startup messages that flagged which bindings failed.
- The validation approach reduced troubleshooting for cloud deployments: apps failed to start instead of becoming "ready" with bad state, which let NGINX/AKS avoid routing traffic to unhealthy pods and gave teams a chance to fix configuration before going live.
- Owned AKS deployments and authored Helm charts to replace manual deployments, improving reproducibility between stage and prod and making environment differences easier to understand.
- Planned, deployed, and maintained a Sitecore 10 XM platform in AKS using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and private Azure Container Registry images.
- Provisioned Ingress-NGINX to manage load balancing and routing.
- Broke out the "Packout Builder" product from the Sitecore monolith into a standalone React app deployed to a Node.js pod on AKS so the three-person product team could own deployments and release on their own cycle (this was a discretionary solution that remained in use 3+ years).
Software Engineer — Milwaukee Tool
Grew into the Sitecore-on-AKS subject-matter expert; rebuilt pipelines, improved deploy times, and shipped a high-traffic product comparison tool.
- Rebuilt Sitecore deployment pipelines and the front-end Gulp workflow; cut a full 10GB Docker deployment from ~65 minutes to <10 minutes.
- Designed and shipped the customer-facing product comparison tool (/products/power-tools/drilling/compare) using Svelte + Solr — ~6,000 visits/day at launch with a peak of 11,000/day (now ~1,200/day).
- Implemented Kubernetes health patterns (startup/readiness/liveness) using .NET HealthChecks and exposed /healthz endpoints to validate DB connectivity and configuration; enabled NGINX to route traffic away from unhealthy pods.
- Deployed and tuned Sitecore 10 on AKS using Helm and Ingress-NGINX, focusing on scaling and runtime reliability.
- Built and maintained an asset pipeline (Gulp + Rollup) to support React and Svelte front-ends and speed developer feedback loops.
- Started as a contributor and rapidly ramped into a SME for pipelines and runtime reliability, owning deployments and troubleshooting for the platform.
Sales Analyst — Builders World Wholesale Distribution
Supported a finance-led migration to Acumatica and built reporting automation that cut daily Excel work and made marketplace pricing safer and easier to manage.
- Supported migration of 10,000+ product records into Acumatica, centralizing product data used for exports and integrations with Walmart, Amazon, eBay, and the company website.
- Built and maintained daily cron jobs (run at 6:00 AM CST) that produced pricing charts and competitor-aware, margin-sensitive price recommendations; these reports were used to update a few hundred SKUs each day and saved my manager ~4 hours/day of manual Excel work.
- Created export workflows and a .NET WinForms tool (Excel interop + marketplace APIs) to publish price updates to Amazon/Walmart; enforced a 4% minimum-margin rule so non-technical users couldn't push prices that would lose money.
- Produced order-sheet exports that reduced time spent merging different reports and made it simpler for distribution staff to act on inventory needs.
- Trained and handed off tools and reports to clerical staff and one other analyst; primary stakeholder was the Director of Finance.