I design and run resilient, self-hosted systems — cloud edge, networking, and the services people depend on day to day. I care about reliability, security, and building things that keep working without being babysat.
Senior Software Engineer with more than a decade of experience, specializing in C/C++ and backend development. Equally at home in DevOps — AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Security Groups, IAM), Terraform, and Ansible — alongside databases, REST APIs, and Linux and embedded systems. A creative problem solver and dedicated worker who excels at solving difficult problems in a robust, scalable way.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute — B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering (High Distinction).
“A Honeypot System for Wearable Networks” — IEEE 37th Sarnoff Symposium (2016), with M. Ali. An embedded, low-overhead honeypot securing medical Body-Area-Networks — deception-based defense for resource-constrained wearable devices.
I’m a Software Engineer, a Libertarian, and an Objectivist — a millennial living the examined life.
Off the clock I’m a tinkerer and builder — happiest turning a rack of hardware in the living room into something genuinely useful, with the odd game project on the side.