my journey
10 years of building.
From healthcare pipelines to privacy-safe ad measurement at scale. A record of work, study, and the craft accumulated along the way.
work
education
learning
education
2012
A.S. Computer Science
Middlesex Community College
education
2013 – 2015
B.S. Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
work
Jun 2015 – Apr 2019
Software Engineer
Change Healthcare / McKesson
- Built Hadoop and Spark pipelines processing healthcare EMR data at scale.
learning
2016
Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Martin Odersky · Coursera
learning
2017
Functional Program Design in Scala
Martin Odersky · Coursera
work
May 2018 – Sep 2021
Streaming Platform Lead
MassMutual
- Built and operated enterprise Kafka platform supporting 25+ internal projects at 250+ Mbps throughput.
- Automated Kafka cluster onboarding, reducing provisioning time from days to hours.
- Mentored engineers on streaming architecture, Akka Streams, and Scala best practices.
learning
2019
Apache Kafka Connect
Udemy
learning
2020
Akka Essentials with Scala
work
Nov 2021 – Oct 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
- Delivered Data Cleanroom partnerships with Roku, TikTok, and Pinterest enabling privacy-safe audience measurement.
- Led migration from Airflow to Kubernetes-native orchestration, improving reliability and scalability.
- Designed and implemented compliance features for CCPA, CPRA, and VCDPA across data pipelines.
learning
2023
Akka Streams with Scala
learning
2024
Akka HTTP & Streams with Scala
work
Oct 2025 – Present
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
- Architected reusable Data Clean Room measurement platform supporting TikTok, Vizio, Disney, and NBCU integrations.
- Led SalesLift platform onboarding for measurement partners TransUnion, Crossix, Upwave, and IQVIA.
- Built developer CLI tooling to streamline Spark and Dataproc workflow automation.
learning
2025
Supervised Machine Learning
Andrew Ng · Coursera