Secretary & Technology Chair - Spirit of the West Alumni

July 2025 - CURRENT

• Co-founded and helped shape the organization's mission to provide financial and logistical assistance to the Montana State University Sprit of the West Marching Band's 200+ members.
• Designed, built, and continue to maintain the public website.
• Administer all web-related services - including Microsoft 365, custom email domains, and Cloudflare DNS.

Senior Software Engineer - Garmin

February 2021 - CURRENT

• Design and implement Java/Kotlin Spring Boot microservices for a high-availability, security-critical solution, leveraging Axon event-sourcing and an event-driven architecture.
• Define and enforce architectural standards and the platform roadmap, evaluating trade-offs among scalability, cost, and maintainability that resulted in better value delivered sooner, with fewer risks, and that increased happiness with the customers and fellow engineers.
• Deliver features with a focus on clean code, testability, and robust architectural patterns.
• Champion Scrum/Agile ceremonies and a BVSSH mentality, accurately forecasting sprint, quarterly, and yearly roadmaps; consistently meet delivery commitments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, introduce developer-productivity tooling that reduces time-to-merge.

Computer Programmer - State of Montana

January 2018 - February 2021

Full stack Java development using Vaadin and Spring across multiple domains. Create internal tooling and libraries, implement DevOps best practices, introduce CI/CD, and research new tools and methods. Maintain, debug, and redesign legacy codebases and relational databases. Design, code, and execute complex database migrations and syncs. Mentor teammates and participate in an always learning and growing environment.