Work

Experience

Lead Principal Software Engineer

Cybersaint Security · 2018 - Present

Architecting the Cyberstrong platform from post-MVP to supporting $10M in ARR with a team of 5 developers.

  • Architected platform supporting $10M ARR with foundational Spring Boot and React components
  • Co-inventor on patent using NLP to relate security controls
  • Led successful SOC2 audit enabling business with Fortune 500 companies
  • Optimized hosting costs through query plan analysis and application profiling
  • Enabled CI/CD with GitHub Actions for all environments
  • Built Temporal workflows that map imported security findings to controls, MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and risk registers using embedding retrieval and graph neural network inference
  • Packaged the platform for an enterprise OEM partner's OpenShift environment with Helm charts for application services, Kafka, and Temporal, plus CI that validates and publishes the charts
  • Standardized release tracking across six repositories and implemented tag-driven staging/production release workflows for Python services
  • Expanded AI-assisted questionnaire assessment to batches of up to 10 documents, with per-document answer attribution so reviewers can trace each answer to its evidence
  • Made LLM policy-to-control crosswalking prompts cacheable and added per-call token usage reporting
  • Improved performance through SQL and index tuning, bulk data-loading writes, vectorized Python risk analytics, and pagination of large imports
  • Added a Playwright smoke suite to every branch build, and remediated CVEs across JVM and Python service images with nightly Trivy reporting

Consultant

Litesport · 2021

Bootstrapped critical services for member portal, admin dashboard, and mobile/VR applications.

  • Built Golang services on AWS ECS with PostgreSQL for member portal and apps
  • Integrated Braintree payment processing for subscription management
  • Automated music publisher reporting for licensing compliance

Software Engineer

Casenet LLC · 2014 - 2018

Team lead responsible for code reviews, performance optimization, and requirement translation.

  • Created base components for pilot application rewrite
  • Owned LDAP user integration for Spring-based application
  • Diagnosed performance issues and translated requirements as team lead

Associate Software Developer

Liberty Mutual Insurance · 2013 - 2014

Implemented financial and publishing systems using JavaScript MVC frameworks.

  • Developed systems using in-house JavaScript MVC and WebSphere
  • Participated in hackathons presented to CIO
  • Received Bravo award for rapid project onboarding

Education

BS Computer Science
University of New Hampshire

Technical Skills

Languages

TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, SQL, Golang, HTML

Technologies

React, Node.js, AWS, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Kafka, Helm, OpenShift, Playwright, Trivy, AWS ECS/ECR

Focus Areas

Full-stack Development, Internal Tools, User Experience, Cloud Infrastructure, API Design

AI & Domain

LLM Integration, Embeddings, Graph Neural Networks, FAIR Risk Quantification, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF / 800-53

Other Skills

Platform Architecture, Team Leadership, SOC2 Compliance, Patent Holder, Performance Optimization, Agile/Scrum, Code Review, Mentoring, OIDC / SAML