Professional Experience
Download PDFEngineering Manager
State Farm
- ▸Leading the design and build of an enterprise-wide event hub for all State Farm engineering teams, using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to establish a unified, real-time event-driven platform
- ▸Defining the architecture, onboarding model, and operational standards for a shared streaming backbone consumed across hundreds of engineering teams
Engineering Manager
State Farm
- ▸Owned end-to-end engineering strategy for commercial auto telematics — IoT data pipelines, customer experience APIs, and integrations across downstream systems
- ▸Built a modern telematics data platform on AWS (Glue, EMR/Spark, S3, Redshift, Athena) with Apache Iceberg as the lakehouse storage layer, connecting raw telemetry with product and analytical workloads
- ▸Defined org-wide engineering standards: API design, observability/logging, documentation, and engineering culture across a multi-team org
- ▸Stewarded AI adoption across the telematics engineering org — establishing guidelines for AI-assisted development and helping teams integrate AI tooling responsibly into their workflows
Engineering Manager
State Farm
- ▸Built a self-service AWS account provisioning platform using Terraform modules and a GitHub/GitLab-based request workflow, enabling 150+ agile teams to onboard autonomously
- ▸Scaled a multi-tenant AWS platform from 50 to 900+ tenants across 14 accounts — reducing provisioning time from days to hours and lowering infrastructure costs through shared tenancy
- ▸Authored golden path templates adopted as the enterprise standard for cloud account management and IaC practices
- ▸Collaborated with VP- and director-level stakeholders to align cloud enablement strategy with enterprise architecture direction
Architecture Manager
State Farm
- ▸Led data pipeline modernization for property & casualty insurance analytics — designing event-driven architectures with Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/EMR processing, and an S3 data lake with Redshift for consumption
- ▸Drove the architectural vision toward a lakehouse pattern using Apache Iceberg; established schema management standards and data contracts adopted across the analytics org
- ▸Managed 14 engineers (internal + contractors); mentored engineering leads and influenced technical direction across multiple product suites
- ▸Owned suite-level product roadmaps, translating long-horizon architectural goals into quarterly delivery plans
Senior Technology Engineer
State Farm
- ▸Designed and built an internal ML model orchestration platform on EMR and Apache Spark, enabling data science teams to run batch workloads at scale without managing infrastructure
- ▸Evangelized new AWS patterns across the enterprise from an internal innovation lab, driving adoption of cloud-native ML execution patterns
AWS / Big Data Solutions Architect
State Farm
- ▸Led the migration that introduced State Farm's first production AWS account — defining architecture patterns adopted across the enterprise
- ▸Drove adoption of Terraform as the standard IaC toolchain; built reusable module patterns for teams across the organization
- ▸Deployed EMR + JupyterHub at enterprise scale for multiple analytics departments; implemented federated AWS login with full automation
Senior Hadoop / DevOps Software Engineer
State Farm
- ▸Led Hadoop development and enablement for a 90+ engineer program — State Farm's first large-scale big data platform
- ▸Built CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Jenkins (Groovy DSL); drove adoption of Docker and container orchestration
- ▸Administered Cloudera Hadoop environment including Linux edge nodes, cluster health, and developer tooling
Automated Logistic Specialist
United States Army Reserve
- ▸Managed inventory systems accountable for millions of dollars in equipment; led soldiers in maintaining operational readiness under pressure
Key Accomplishments
Enterprise Cloud Platform
Built a self-service AWS provisioning platform that scaled from 50 to 900+ tenants across 14 accounts — cutting provisioning time from days to hours and becoming the enterprise standard for cloud account management.
First AWS Production Footprint
Led the initiative that introduced State Farm's first production AWS account, establishing Terraform-based IaC patterns and cloud architecture standards now used across the enterprise.
Data Pipeline Architecture
Designed event-driven pipelines using Kafka, Spark/EMR, S3, and Redshift to modernize property & casualty insurance analytics — driving the architectural direction toward a lakehouse pattern with Apache Iceberg, and establishing data contracts adopted org-wide.
Engineering Leadership at Scale
Managed and mentored engineering teams of up to 14 across multiple product suites; influenced technical direction at the director level while building a culture of observability, documentation, and engineering excellence.