Staff software engineer

Keep an eye out for updates to this page as my tenure at Skylight continues. For now, you can assume that I’m being my experience & technical abilities to improve the developer experience, documentation, & contributing to review code & writing code to deliver new features to the CDC’s EpiSync project .

As a staff engineer on the EpiSync project for the CDC at Skylight, I’m responsible for contributing to multiple codebases across various programming languages and development environments. With most of the of the team split between macOS and Windows development environments, I’ve had to create documentation, run books, and automation that works across Unix and PowerShell terminal environments.

Another responsibility on this team is to help guide and maintain long-standing documentation and architectural diagrams. Using tools such as Structurizr & Docker, I’ve managed to create a local development intranet for team members to load up locally to view system diagrams, run books, and architectural decision records in a single location. This has helped improve communication across disciplines on the project.

With Just, I am also building out an ergonomic way with shared language for helping engineers on my team develop, troubleshoot, and operate software needed to make them effective with day-to-day tasks. One of the more recent recipes I’ve written allows engineers to refresh and modify JWT tokens locally so they can work with an bearer-token authenticated API locally and within a private-network development environment accessible only through a remote desktop environment.