experience

An honest log of where I've been. Reverse-chronological.

Amazon Leo Physical & IP Security · Sr. Security Engineer · 2026 →

• Threat analysis, incident response, and AI-driven response automation for physical and IP security.

AWS Security · Sr. Security Engineer · 2022 — 2026

• Technical advisor to the AWS Security Operations Center. Built AI-powered incident response tooling and employee access automation at scale.

Salesforce · Lead Software Engineer · 2022

• Led software engineering work. Short stint.

AWS Region Build Engineering Labs · Software Development Engineer · 2019 — 2022

• Small team converting novel ideas into MVPs. Built systems handling 10M+ messages daily from restricted regions.

Capital One · Software Engineer · 2018 — 2019

• Open Source Office. Built a microservice platform enabling teams to securely use OSS by scanning for vulnerabilities during build and deployment.

before that

• US Marine Corps — Supply Administration and Operations. Six years, 2010–2016.
• CoStar Group — Data Quality Analyst.
• VDOT — Business Intelligence Analyst.
• Contract penetration testing — on the side.

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education

• Virginia Commonwealth University — B.S. Physics, 2016.