Recent Experience
2022–Present
Deputy CTO, Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions
(San Francisco / Denver / D.C.)
- Designing and implementing bespoke software solutions to support
legal operations.
- Technical duties include a mix of case work, infrastructure
development, and product development.
- Non-technical duties include vendor vetting and management,
technical pre-sales / marketing, and leadership / mentoring.
2011–2021
Principal Staff Cloud Engineer, Medidata Solutions, Inc. (New
York / San Francisco)
- Designed and implemented several different deployment mechanisms
based on evolving business requirements. Addopting container-based
deployment system saved the company 5-figures per month in AWS costs
through increased server density.
- Played a key role in managing the company’s cloud footprint, as it’s
grown from several VMs to several thousand.
- Involved in negotiating and evangelizing company technical
standards, from post-IPO to recent company acquisition.
2009–2011
Chief Operations Officer, Aranetic LLC (New York / D.C.)
- Applied agile technical and business practices to reducing legal
discovery costs.
- Made heavy use of test-driven-development, Amazon Web Services, a
no-SQL document store, and Chef to build a rapidly-scalable document
processing system.
- As a principal, performed marketing, sales, and other startup
duties.