DatadogSenior Technical Curriculum Developer – Present
- Develop hands-on labs, courses, and workshops for the Datadog Learning Center in partnership with cloud engineering and product teams.
Summary
Software engineer working in technical education. I spent seven years designing and operating O’Reilly Media’s multi-cloud Cloud Labs platform, and now build hands-on curriculum and lab environments at Datadog. The audience changed, but the work is still engineering.
Experience
O’Reilly Media, Inc.Senior Software Engineer –
- Designed and built Cloud Labs, a multi-tenant platform provisioning thousands of ephemeral cloud environments per week across GCP, AWS, and Azure, on GKE with Terraform, async Python, Postgres, and Redis.
- Led the platform’s GCP capability from planning through implementation, and served as rotating team lead across hiring, technical interviews, and architecture decisions.
- Proposed and shipped the platform’s first lab with an embedded coding agent (Aider on AWS Bedrock), putting learners in front of a working LLM agent within seconds of launch.
Ciholas, Inc.Software Engineer –
- Built real-time front-end interfaces for an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) network monitoring system with millisecond-latency data visualization.
Springleaf Financial ServicesProgrammer Analyst, Senior –
Education & Certifications
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Southern Indiana ()
- Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, Issued , Valid through