SUMMARY
Seasoned Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience specializing in system hands on engineering, software stabilization, cost reduction, and technical leadership.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Engineering Manager, GitHub — December 2023 - Now
Senior Software Engineer, GitHub — June 2021 - December 2023
Lead Software Engineer, Skylight Digital — May 2019 - June 2021
Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal Labs — April 2016 - May 2019
Mid-level Software Engineer, U.S. General Services Administration — October 2014 - April 2016
Mid Level Data Analyst, U.S. Department of State — February 2013 - October 2014
Political Data Analyst, U.S. Department of State — June 2012 - December 2012
Computational Linguistics Research Assistant, Swarthmore — September 2009 - May 2010
CORE COMPETENCIES & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, C#.
Infrastructure & DevOps: Cloud Cost Optimization, Incident Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure/AWS, Docker.
Methodologies: Extreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Agile Coaching, Brownfield Modernization.
Data Science: Data Pipelines (ETL), Social Network Analysis, R, Pandas, Elasticsearch.
PATENTS
2016 - US10229251B1: Library scan for live applications
TALKS AND PUBLICATIONS
- 2025 - Github Network Analysis Data Skeptic
- 2023 - The Blue ~Screen~ Dot of Death: The path to understanding graceful degradation (Github Internal)
- 2021 - How we prevented millions of emails from being sent to unverified email addresses (Github Internal)
- 2019 - Feedback Culture (Sweet Talks)
- 2019 - Feedback Culture (Dell Talks)
- 2018 - TDD the Bad Parts (Dell Talks)
- 2018 - Agile Practices VS Values (Dell Talks)
- 2018 - Live long and Refactor (Dell Talks)
- 2017 - Intro to Git and Github (Latinos in Tech and Prince George's Tech)
- 2016 - Compliance Masonry: Building a risk management platform, brick by brick
- 2016 - Automating Security Compliance (DOE technology event)
- 2015 - Better, Faster Security in Agile Government
- 2015 - analytics.usa.gov: Now with agency-specific dashboards
- 2015 - analytics.usa.gov: New features and more data
- 2015 - How we built analytics.usa.gov
EDUCATION
University of Washington
Certificate in Data Science (2015) - GPA: 4.0
University of Maryland/ University of Alexandria, Egypt
Masters in Professional Studies - Arabic Language (2012) - GPA: 3.875
Swarthmore College
Bachelors of Arts - Sociology and Anthropology (2010) - GPA: 3.731
Concentration in Computational Social Sciences and worked as a socio-linguistic researcher
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
- 2011-2012 Flagship Boren Fellowship: full ride for language study in the Graduate Flagship Program
- 2011 ICAE Scholarship: funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for Language study.
- 2010-2011 Lippincott Fellowship: funding from Swarthmore College for graduate school.
- 2011 Golden Key International Honour Society: awarded to students who are in the top 15% of the class.
- 2010 Intercultural Community Journalist Award: recognition for nuanced journalism.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Arabic (Levantine, Egyptian, MSA): ACTFL-Superior, OPI-Superior, ILR Lower-Bound Test - 3/3
Spanish: Native Speaker
English: Native Speaker