University of Rochester

Walla Walla University

Director, Software Operations at Dexcom

Lead platform services cross functional teams that develop and operate the APIs that make Dexcom "The most connected CGM."

Dexcom

Director, R&D SW Development

Leading a team focused on strategic initiatives and process improvements.  Initiatives include setting up a Tijuana SW Center of Excellence, Agile Practices and Patterns, SW Metrics, the capture/application of methodologies we use to build Software, and guiding strategic investment.  Directly manage three Sr Engineering Managers who oversee Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Writers, and Product Health functions for Dexcom's core and next generation mobile applications.

Director, R&D Software Development Engineering (Operational Excellence)

Leading a team of 19 engineers.  Our team portfolio includes the following:
- A web API implemented as containerized micro-services (ruby, node, scala) orchestrated via kubernetes on GCP
- A web client app (Ember)
- iOS (swift) and Android (kotlin) mobile client apps
- Windows and MacOS client apps (C#) that upload USB devices

Senior Engineering Manager

Develops high quality, maintainable software for Dexcom Portland (was formerly known as SweetSpot), solving complex problems both individually and as part of a team.  Acts as a leader by providing guidance & vision to the team and strives to continually improve knowledge and skills. Drives improvements in quality and efficiency.

Staff Engineer – Software Development (Full Stack)

Three kinds of consulting:

1) develop software (e.g., Ruby, Rails, RSpec, MySQL, PostgreSQL, mongodb, redis, resque)

2) devops for linux system administration (e.g., docker, AWS, nagios, chef)

3) facilitate large group consensus.

Brandon CS Sanders Consulting

Principal

Set technical direction; scale our technology and assure its health and stability; oversee our algorithmic work; and manage all development efforts.

AboutUs

Chief Technology Officer

Directing the software development for AboutUs.

Chief Architect

My job is to design and deploy a social networking system that "Makes good ideas Really Real!"  SocialSifting bubbles the best ideas to the top.  MoneyPooling aggregates lots of small donations.  ConsensusPolling decides exactly how to use pooled resources.

IBESI

Technical Director

My doctoral work builds a framework that enables an unsupervised machine to become spatially intelligent. The agent discovers perceptually grounded ideas of objects that are appropriate for the bootstrapping of perceptually grounded concepts of relationships between objects and actions involving objects. My specific problem is Object Discovery: "Given a set of observations, group all the observations stemming from a particular object without including other observations originating from different objects."