Lead Generative AI Engineer | Shield AI - Hivemind Solutions |
Washington, DC | July 2025 - Present
Advising the CTO and senior engineering leadership on Generative AI
policy, deployment strategy, and enabling Agentic workflows in
restricted environments.
Developed bespoke agent harness to allow handling of restricted
(CUI/ITAR/AUKUS) data with commercial and FedRAMP-hosted models.
Built GenAI automation for Hivemind SDK upgrades and training
validation, reducing acceptance testing cycles from weeks to 24
hours and addressing upgrade work which was our number one pain
point for the product.
Architected agentic training validation platform for Hivemind
Enterprise, reducing validation from 40 engineering hours to 2 hours
in CI and improving NPS by 10%.
Solo Endeavors | 2014 - June 2025
Solo software engineer for pre-seed hardware startup. Developed a
platform to fully automate 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.
Built agentic research platform for deep tech startup using Claude
SDK and custom RAG to solve domain-specific knowledge discovery
challenges.
Managed SaaS solo with self-hosted Kubernetes/GitLab CI,
deployments, and operations, peaking at 20k monthly active users.
Aerospace Applications Software Engineer | Blue Origin | Denver, CO |
June 2023 - January 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 and reducing need for proprietary compiler.
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.