May 2021 — Present

Senior Software Engineer II, divvyDOSE / Optum

Primary Technologies:

Python, Django, Docker, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Serverless Framework, React, Copilot

• Owned several pharmacy business domains end to end, working directly with stakeholders to clarify requirements and carrying the resulting systems through design, implementation, deployment, and production support
• reduced recurring delivery issues that raised monthly patient Net Promoter Scores into the top tenth percentile
• Co-led the adoption of LLM-assisted engineering across 60 repositories, developing AGENTS.md conventions, reusable agent skills, documentation, and practical guidance that helped inform internal policy
• Developed repeatable coding-agent workflows for complex production PRs spanning application and infrastructure code, database migrations, state-specific regulatory logic, test suites, and deployment pipelines
•  Worked on a team with no DevOps or QA staff, taking full accountability for process, patient safety, and infrastructure of all deployed code
• Led and coordinated multi-stage post-acquisition migrations across 60 repositories, consolidating CI/CD, source control, and package/container infrastructure into Optum’s corporate platforms
• Rebuilt alerting and support workflows for dozens of products and microservices, enabling half the previous staff to maintain existing production coverage
• Served as Incident Commander during major production outages, directing technical investigation, cross-team recovery, stakeholder communication, and post-incident follow-through
• Owned controlled-substance reporting for both a pharmacy dispenser and reporting vendor, translating state regulations and the ASAP specification into production systems while working directly with government agencies to resolve ambiguities and minimize regulatory risk

October 2017 — May 2021

Software Engineer / Senior Associate, Capital One Financial

Primary Technologies:

Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, PostgreSQL

• Authored cyber threat modeling documents for bank infrastructure
• Created predictive load-based ECS scaling to reduce EC2 cost usage cost by 16%
• Wrote scalable REST API's to help serve Capital One Shopping's 10+ million active customers
• Created push notification messaging architecture for iOS and Android

July 2016 — July 2017

Senior Software Engineer, Talent, Inc.

Primary Technologies:

Docker, Docker Compose, Gulp, PHP, Python

• Boosted production site performance by 60%
• Built the site’s first front-end asset pipeline, cutting initial page-load time in half
• Owned technical remediation of web-application PCI compliance findings

June 2013 — April 2016

Software Engineer, Sony Music

Primary Technologies:

PHP, Zend, MySQL, Git, AWS Redshift, AWS SQS, AWS CloudSearch, Python, Flask, JavaScript ES6, jQuery, Node.js, npm, Gulp, Grunt, React, Jenkins, Docker

• Designed and authored natural-language search API back-ended by Amazon CloudSearch, improving response times on integrated pages by more than 75%
• Co-architected and created BACON, the first commercial tool for automating YouTube monetization using the YouTube Partner API and Amazon SQS. Billboard Magazine coverage.

March 2014 — August 2023

Director of Technology – Part-time / Volunteer, Satellite Collective

Primary Technologies:

Google Analytics, Google Ads, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, HTML/SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache, PHP, AWS

• Set up payment processing and infrastructure for our Fellows program, offering guidance, fundraising support, and growth strategies
• Webmaster and SEO consultant for a prominent 501(c)(3) New York arts organization
• Created an open-source web application to display networked art project involving more than 400 people in 43 countries. New York Times coverage: "Satellite Collective, including a programmer and a designer, Daniel Talsky and Matt Dabrowiak, [...] created an elegant website that displays the works as a sort of family tree."
• Elevated web site to top ranking position on major search engines

February 2012 — June 2013

Web Developer, The Jones Group, Inc.

Primary Technologies:

DemandWare, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS

Part of a small agile team responsible for the implementation of new features, enhancements and marketing campaigns for several high-volume web properties collectively generating $80 million annually

October 2011 — February 2012

Web Developer, Bandwidth Productions, Inc.

Primary Technologies:

PHP, MySQL, FFmpeg

• Wrote a cross-platform video processing queue using FFmpeg

December 2010 — August 2011

Web Developer, Big Fish Games

Primary Technologies:

PHP, MySQL, Lucene, Solr, SVN

• Spearheaded a project to create a Solr-driven search tool to replace a JavaScript solution and brought the project to completion
• Implemented PCI compliance with CSRF protection on account pages

October 2007 — June 2009

Senior Developer, ProQuest

Primary Technologies:

Java, Ruby, C#, MSSQL, Perl, SVN

• Implemented a high-availability SOAP-based XML API in C#
• Authored a detailed article about ProQuest library technology published by the prominent library and technology journal, Code4Lib