Real-world work and scar tissue
2024 – Present
Founder & Independent Builder
New Arc Consulting- Co-founded a boutique consultancy focused on shipping production systems end-to-end.
- Build full-stack and AI-powered applications, internal tools, and Webflow integrations.
- Operate with real business constraints: scope, velocity, maintainability, and ROI.
2019 – 2024
Staff-Level Engineer
Aporeto → Palo Alto Networks- Built and scaled a containerized UI automation framework ('Squid') that became core quality infrastructure post-acquisition.
- Reduced regression feedback loops from days to ~30 minutes per PR.
- Set engineering standards and mentored teams while owning frontend feature development.
2016 – 2018
Full-Stack Engineer
Virtana- Promoted from automation into full-stack engineering.
- Modernized legacy UI into SPA architecture (Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, frontend).
- Worked closely with product and sales to turn complex data into usable interfaces.
2011 – 2016
QA → Automation Engineer
Virtana- Started in manual QA on complex enterprise storage systems.
- Built automation tools to replace manual regression testing.
- Learned how large systems fail under load, in production, and during releases.