Work Experience

I am currently a Cloud Software Development Engineer in the Data Center Group. I have a background in Software-Defined Infrastructure and automation at scale. I enjoy working with and leading teams to develop solutions that improve reliability and optimize compute environments. I believe that we should all give back to our community through service.

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My Work Philosophy

Technology takes practice. Much like running a marathon, you train for it. Be patient with yourself.

  • Document things because it’s important
  • Automate your way out of a job (there will always be more work)
  • Treat everyone with kindness and respect
  • Bring all of who you are, no one benefits from inauthentic relationships
  • Mentor someone else
  • Build community
  • Stay curious, and keep learning!

Intel Corporation, 2005-Present

Cloud Software Development Engineer, January 2025-Present

This role is in the Data Center and AI Group with the Software Solutions & Ecosystem division.

I lead the team enabling Data Services (Valkey for Elasticache, Aurora and RDS, OpenSearch, MSK, etc.) optimizations for AWS. I focus on Intel-developed libraries and tools, and perform kernel and hypervisor-level performance benchmarking to identify improvements for virtual machine and bare metal operations that facilitate the adoption of platform features for Intel instances. I am an Accessibility Champion, interested in integrating accessible technology practices into product and software design.

System Software Architect, 2019-2024

This role was in the Network Edge Group with the Health, Education, and Consumer Industries division.

My interest in accessibility led to an internally awarded proof of concept development surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) inference on CPU at the edge. I worked with customers to consider how their architecture benefited from Intel products and features. I took into consideration large-scale deployment and remote management of devices and applications, and leveraged my background in cloud native technologies to understand their application in localized environments (“the edge”) and over the network (“the cloud”), how best to secure, and leverage cloud technologies to modernize software architectures.

  • Developed platform-aware Kubernetes deployments for VM management at the edge, incorporating cloud-native technologies and open-source software
  • Validated, released, and supported customer onboarding for open-source display synchronization software
  • Architected AI workload to benchmark CPU-inference for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)/Text-to-Speech (TTS)/Speech-to-Text (STT) awarded “best of session” at the Intel Spoken Language Technology Summit.
  • Facilitated collaboration across a multi-disciplinary team to release the first virtualized Android Point of Sale with a large OEM customer

Cloud Automation Engineer, 2014-2019

This role was within the Information Technology Group on the Software Defined Infrastructure Team with Cloud Services Engineering.

  • Product Owner for 9-member cloud infrastructure team responsible for enterprise-scale environment monitoring and alerting
  • Invited and selected speaker for virtual machine issue mitigation solution that preemptively resolved errors, achieving a 42% reduction of ticketed issues.
  • Implemented OS Provisioning for Windows and UNIX as a Service using cloud-aware application development, leading to accepted speaker at the Software Professionals Conference.

Design Automation Engineer, 2008-2014

This role was within the Embedded Computing Group on the Backend Silicon Engineering team.

  • Led a multi-site team to architect and deploy a firewalled environment solution for Offsite Design Centers, enabling remote access for contingent workforce supplementation.
  • Coordinated the convergence of register management methodology for Architecture, Pre-Silicon Validation, RTL, Software, and Electrical Engineering Teams, streamlining old processes and standardizing on IEEE standards.
  • Adapted Perl-based large volume regression runs to automate random seed simulation for design coverage collection, leading to early identification of design issues.
  • Designed a collateral release flow, resulting paper was accepted to the 2012 Design Test and Technology Conference.
  • Enabled PCIe and CPU benchmarks to simulate workloads on IA Platforms and a White Paper to proliferate findings.
  • Managed $2.4M budget for CAD licenses, compute resources, and storage while driving >$500K cost savings through optimized forecasting.
  • Wrote portions of Platform Quality of Service Proof of Concept C library for cache enforcement to reduce “noisy neighbor” scenario in virtualized environments.
  • Responsible for management of Interactive and batch computing and storage infrastructure for 100+ engineers, including forecasting, end of life, migration, and purchase.

Systems Programmer, 2005-2007

This role was within the Information Technology group in the Engineering Computing division.

  • Supported compute server allocation and deployed resource utilization tracking metrics for compute capacity.
  • Designed cross-site modules to automate the management, installation, and provisioning of Unix server instances.
  • Leveraged Wiki technology to consolidate existing documentation and manuals
  • Developed curriculum and training materials for delivery of online courses
  • Developed feature set for XAJAX and PHP based objective and milestone management utility w/MySQL backend.
  • Provided managerial and team lead coverage; received site recognition award for exceptional coverage.

Do Wonderful

  • Founder of the “Day @ Intel” Fieldtrip, which brought 100 girls from the community to experience a day of hands-on engineering and mentorship for 12 years (Spotlighted)
  • Recognized as a Career Connector for continuous support of employees and undergraduate students through mentorship and coaching.
  • Nominated for the Society of Women Engineers Spark Award through a competitive internal process.

Third World Press, 2003-2005

Independent Contractor –IT/Accounting

  • Set up and maintained Windows XP/ Macintosh OS X peer-to-peer inter-office network.
  • Designed and executed a new customer service system to provide more efficient order tracking.
  • Planned and implemented the migration of the accounting system from DacEasy to QuickBooks
  • Produced office manual of procedures and directly managed volunteer and intern program for IT and accounting

Techie Skills

  • AI: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Multilingual Translation, Large Language Models (LLM), Claude Code, Copilot, Agentic AI
  • Markup Languages: JSON, YAML, Markdown, XML, HTML, Wiki, CSS*
  • Programming “Languages”: Python, PHP*, C/C++*, Javascript*, Java*
  • Scripting: PowerShell, Shell (C-shell, Bash), Perl*
  • Databases: MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL, PostgreSQL
  • Cloud Technologies: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Containers (Docker), VMWare (vCenter, vSphere, vRealize), AWS, Azure, GCP, RESTful APIs
  • Networking: Software Defined Networks, TCP/IP, Firewall Rules
  • Virtualization: KVM, Qemu, ESXi, Hyper-V
  • Configuration Management: Ansible, Terraform
  • CICD: GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, Drone
  • Requirements and Issues tools: Jira, Doors NextGen, Rally
  • Performance Analysis: PerfSpect, VTune, EMON, sar, perf, FlameGraph
  • Observability/Telemetry: Grafana, Prometheus
  • Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux (Ubuntu, SLES, RedHat), Windows Server, Windows Client, Amazon Linux
  • Software Development Practices: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practitioner, DevOps
  • Misc: WordPress, Web servers (Apache, Nginx), Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Enterprise Integration
  • Office: Microsoft Office 365, Slack, Video Conferencing

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