Cyderes(formerly Fishtech Group)
Jan 2018 – Present
Managed security services provider.
Staff Software Engineer
Jul 2025 – Present
- Work across six engineering teams — Web, Mobile, DevOps, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Alert Infrastructure Engineering — solving problems that fall between them.
- Served as a technical liaison between engineering teams.
- Lead a company-wide migration from Google Cloud Platform Secret Manager to HashiCorp Vault.
- Took over an AI-powered risk-reporting prototype from the VP of Engineering and shipped it to production, adding auth and closing security vulnerabilities along the way.
- Ran cross-team discovery and proofs of concept to help leadership choose which vendors and tech stacks to adopt.
- Wrote auditing and compliance automations to help the Director of Software Engineering meet SOC 2 requirements.
- Authored & tested disaster recovery playbooks for our customer-facing production systems.
- Migrated all customer data-collector integrations from a legacy Firestore system to a modern GitOps workflow.
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2022 – Jul 2025
- Recovered a stalled, high-visibility release of Client Portal: fixed memory leaks crashing production pods and resolved UI and performance issues ahead of deadline.
- Created an internal dashboard for our Security Operations Center (SOC) to triage security event queues and meet client SLOs.
- Established an Architectural Decision Record (ADR) process backed by GitHub Issues for the Web Engineering team.
- Designed the Web Engineering team's technical interview process and conducted interviews with candidates.
- Facilitated Event Storming sessions across engineering teams, earning feedback like 'Thanks! We should really do this more often.'
- Led pair and mob programming sessions, investing 400+ hours of mentorship across the teams.
- Built a hackathon project - an internal Slack-powered kudos tracker and scoreboard that let engineers recognize each other's work.
Software Engineer II
Mar 2020 – Jun 2022
- Designed, built & maintained the company's customer-facing Client Portal with React & JavaScript.
- Migrated customer-facing Client Portal from JavaScript to TypeScript.
- Optimized Client Portal performance and reliability with a Redis cache and other fallback mechanisms.
- Added metrics and observability to Client Portal with Prometheus & Grafana dashboards.
Software Engineer
Jan 2018 – Mar 2020
- Built the company's first (now legacy) security-event pipeline with AWS Lambda, SQS, and ELK.
- Designed, built & maintained an internal data collector management portal using React, GraphQL, and Firestore.