Skills

Programming Languages: Java, Python, Fortran, C, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash
Web-development: Spring, Spring-Boot, Spring-JPA, Hibernate, SQL, Postgres
Cloud: AWS, EC2, ECS, ECR, DynamoDB, RDS, Route53
Tools: Docker, Linux, Tomcat, Apache2, JDBC,
Other: Message Passing Interface (MPI), NetCDF, MatPlotLib, Numpy

Education

Oregon State University – Corvallis, OR – Graduated: July 2017
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a Minor in Psychology

Selected Employment

TekSystems - (On Contract with GrantSolutions.gov)
Role: Java Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: Aug. 2023 - Apr. 2024 (End of contacted work)

Remediated critical and high-security vulnerabilities in Java Web Applications running in Docker or ECS
Created thorough justification with concrete evidence for recasting vulnerabilities as false positive or lower severity
Performed Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and XML Entity Injection (XXE) penetration testing
Created application setup documents that were viewed more than 1000 times by staff in less than 6 months

Cloud Campaign
Role: Software Engineer
Location: Boulder, CO
Duration: Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2022 (Layoff)

Updated the Java Spring Backend, AngularJS Frontend and AWS infrastructure (ELB, EC2) to horizontally scale the web application to better support a growing user base
Worked with customers and customer support to quickly diagnose and resolve both frontend and backend bugs and issues
Updated both frontend and backend code to be able to improve load times for agencies with large amounts of workspaces and users
Performed DynamoDb database migrations using Python and Boto3

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) - MMM Lab
Role: Software Engineer I
Location: Boulder, CO
Duration: Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2021 (Left for more pay)

Contributed both significant changes and bug fixes to a Fortran numerical weather model, MPAS
Parallelized static interpolation code to run safely and correctly on multi-process by using a self-written KD-Tree
Designed, implemented, and tested command-line Python programs using numpy and NetCDF to allow scientists the ability to run limited-area simulations
Created a multi-process, command-line Python program to run user-defined regression tests
Supported scientific staff by providing written guides, examples, lectures and provided coding and debugging guidance

Seacast - NASA Space Grant Internship
Role: NASA Space Grant Intern
Location: Corvallis, OR
Duration: July 2017 - Oct. 2018

Maintained a Django website that served visualizations of ocean forecast to local Oregon fisherman
Diagnosed, and fixed production outages that occurred to the website during server operations in a timely manner
Used Python, MatPlotLib, Numpy, and Scipy to create visualizations of NetCDF ocean forecast
Created a test suite to test new features as they were added to ensure correctness

Projects

This is a select list of my current personal projects.

Joke Dad-A-Base

Want free, random Dad-Jokes? Well I got you covered! Checkout out https://jokedadabase.com! It’s an Angular frontend with a Java Spring Backend running in Java. For more information see my projects page.

Backend: Java, Spring, Springboot, Spring-jpa, Docker, Postgres, DynamoDB Frontend: Angular, Typescript Infrastructure: AWS, ECR, ECS, CloudFront, S3, GitHub Actions

SpaceGame

SpaceGame is a small 2D game written in Python and uses the Arcade python library. It is very similar to asteroids, but is two player with a split screen mode. Players are controlled either by keyboard or controller. For more information see my projects page.