Building AI solutions for early-stage startups | April 2025 -
Present
Automating software development for a hardware startup, building
simulation, deployment infrastructure, and Flight Software from
greenfield. Engineers write tickets; AI automations handle the
development lifecycle. Software used in first hardware tests and
investor demos.
Building AI managed research platform for deep tech startup using
Claude SDK and custom RAG to solve domain-specific knowledge
discovery challenges.
Autonomy Applications Engineer | Shield AI | Washington, DC | June 2025
- Present
Advising senior leadership on company AI policies and deployments.
Built GenAI automation tooling adopted by product team for Hivemind
repository upgrades, reducing SDK release cycles from weeks to 24
hours while enhancing quality gates.
Found critical issues in multiple SDK releases, blocking deployment
until issues were corrected. Improved testing workflows by
automating and parallelizing acceptance testing.
Established cross-organization upgrade pipeline using GenAI tooling,
providing continuous SDK quality validation and enabling
engineering-free Hivemind upgrades for partner teams.
Aerospace Applications Software Engineer | Blue Origin | Denver, CO |
June 2023 - April 2025
Owned development environment infrastructure for 150-person flight
software team, implementing Docker dev containers and modern
tooling.
Developed custom Pytest framework generating dynamic GitLab CI child
pipelines with Python decorators, reducing runner utilization by 90%
while maintaining flight software validation.
Built advanced linting using Tree-sitter and LLMs to analyze Python
code in CI pipelines, catching non-terminating loops in verification
test code before deployment.
Developed Python data pipelines for spacecraft telemetry analysis
and C++ hardware mocking capabilities, enabling pure software
simulation environments.
Built automated test case management software, delivering 10x
productivity improvements for a 20-person verification team.
Simulation Software Engineer, Advanced Programs | United Launch Alliance
| Denver, CO | May 2022 - June 2023
Modernized legacy FORTRAN codebase (~700k lines) by distributing
precompiled binaries, reducing downstream compilation time from 12+
hours to 4 hours.
Implemented team's first CI/CD pipeline with automated formatting,
linting, and merge request checks, enabling developers to focus on
implementation over code style.
Architected and delivered first high-fidelity C++ simulation model
for Vulcan-Centaur rocket, recognized as one of ULA's major
accomplishments of 2022.
EDUCATION & PROJECTS
B.S. Astronautical Engineering, CS Minor | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University | May 2022
Undergraduate Research Lead | Orbital Debris Classification | Prescott,
AZ | 2021
Led machine learning research in collaboration with ERAU Dean of
Engineering and NASA, developing algorithms in Rust and Julia for 3D
debris classification.
Founder & Lead Developer | Simple Stock Bots | Phoenix, AZ | 2018 - 2024
Managed Kubernetes cluster in my self-hosted homelab handling CI/CD
builds, deployments, and GitLab runners for Python application
serving 20k monthly active users.
Implemented automated canary and stable release pipelines with
GitLab CI/CD, enabling continuous deployment to production with
verification of updates.