Hive-ly
CTO & Lead Engineer · Remote · 2025–2026
I joined Hive-ly early to help build a legal-tech platform for workers documenting
workplace issues and connecting with attorneys — work that sits at an uncomfortable
intersection of product, ethics, and regulation. I set up how we shipped (standards,
observability, deployment), built AI workflows for legal documents and case narratives,
and spent a lot of time with legal advisors and advocates making sure what we built was
accurate, safe, and actually usable.
Cisco (ThousandEyes)
Senior Software Engineer · Seattle · 2023–2025
On the UXE platform team, I helped grow the shared design system and data visualization
infrastructure behind ThousandEyes. Most of my energy went into making accessibility and
consistency something teams could rely on at scale — not a checklist at the end of a
sprint, but part of how people already worked.
Formidable
Seattle · 2019–2023
I grew from engineer to team lead to engineering manager, working with clients on React,
Next.js, and performance-heavy frontends. I managed teams of two to six, led a web vitals
engagement with a large e-commerce company, and maintained Victory — Formidable's
open-source charting library. I also did a fellowship on data visualization at scale,
which is still how I think about charts and the main thread.
The Mom Project
Software Engineer · Chicago · Summer 2019
A short stint between Formidable and my earlier Chicago years: shipping features on a
Rails and React codebase and writing a JavaScript style guide so the team had something
consistent to point to.
8th Light
Chicago · 2016–2019
This is where I learned to be a software craftsperson — apprenticeship, client work
across React, Angular, Ruby, and Java, then leading a front-end team and mentoring people
through 8th Light's apprenticeship program. It shaped how I still think about code review,
teaching, and leaving things better than I found them.
Before software
Music and fine arts teacher · 2011–2015
I taught music, art, and drama to K–12 students in Chicago and a year in Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala. I have a degree in music education from Anderson University and a crash
course in web development from Dev Bootcamp. The teaching years still show up in how I
explain things and how I work with teams.