20+ years leading engineering teams across security, infrastructure, mental health tech, and FedRAMP government systems. Currently securing the software supply chain at GitHub.
The thing I’m best at is growing engineers into the best versions of themselves. Figuring out what “next level” actually means for someone specifically, not generically. Coaching through ambiguity. Building teams that ship without burning out.
Openly AuDHD and vocal about neurodiversity in the workplace. I want engineering careers to be more accessible to brains that work differently. I speak at conferences about AI-assisted workflows and building management systems that actually work for everyone, neurodivergent brains included.
Where I’ve been
GitHub · Staff Engineering Manager · Dec 2025 - Present
Package Security team. Supply chain security, artifact attestation, developer trust infrastructure. It’s 11 o’clock, do you know what your packages are?
Rula · Engineering Manager · May 2024 - Dec 2025
Mental health tech startup. Managed the infrastructure services team (3 engineers when I joined, 8 when I left). Worked on: Kafka migration from legacy sync services, a company-wide Auth0 migration, and a tokenization initiative to protect patient data across event streaming. Also founded the Neurodiversity ERG here.
1Password · Engineering Manager · Jul 2022 - May 2024
Managed a team of infrastructure services engineers. When I joined they were in full reactive mode, so the first order of business was getting a roadmap and sprint cadence in place. Worked on: a year-long ActiveMQ to Kafka migration across 12 product teams, a standardized EKS migration path that other teams ended up adopting, and building out on-call rotation and incident review from scratch.
Oddball · Engineering Manager / Staff Engineer · Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Government healthcare. This is where I went from staff IC into management. Managed a 30-person team across 5 squads working on the Medicare.gov modernization (50 million users, 2 billion monthly requests). Got through FedRAMP ATO in 6 months. The shared SSO header we built won the 2021 FedHealth Innovation Award. Before the management move, I built the first public-facing government GraphQL API and was on SRE for the healthcare.gov auth platform.
PartnerComm · Lead Software Engineer · Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Benefits and retirement platforms. This is where I first started doing the “technical lead who also coaches the team” thing. Introduced CI/CD, testing, and code quality practices that cut deploy cycles from weeks to days. Built SSO-enabled benefits apps with Node, React, and headless CMS.
BookIt.com · Senior Engineer · Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Travel tech. Built a push notification service and multi-language SDK, worked on the booking API integrations, ran agile ceremonies as scrum master. Also did the front-end migration from jQuery to Ember (and then years later watched Ember fade into irrelevance, so, that was fun).
Right Leaf · Lead Developer · Jan 2007 - Dec 2014
My own shop. Ran a small dev studio building custom CMS and e-commerce platforms for clients like SYNLawn, Dolly Parton, Harley Davidson, and a bunch of investor-backed startups. Managed a small team and all the client relationships. Eight years of learning that running a business and writing code are two very different skills.
Earlier · 1999 - 2007
Started in radio (Clear Channel, building internal tools for 7 stations), then moved to travel tech (Cruise Planners/AMEX, multi-tenant booking systems), then synthetic turf franchise software (SYNLawn). Florida tech in the early 2000s was a wild ride.
The early days
Before all of this, I was a kid with a 300 baud modem dialing into BBS systems one line at a time. Drawing RIPscrip graphics, playing TradeWars and Legend of the Red Dragon, eventually building my own DOOR games. Something about watching pixels render over a phone line at that speed makes you permanently patient with slow CI pipelines.