Experience

Appian · McLean, VA

• Lead agentic AI strategy for the group, building a software factory that grows Sidekick from standalone agents into one bounded, human-approved delivery loop.
• Continue building the agent harnesses behind it, and now own governance for agent work, measuring quality and cost alongside output.

Appian · McLean, VA

• Built a homegrown agent harness that analyzes bug tickets, triages CI failures, and reviews pull requests; adopted by multiple teams across the org within a month of release.
• Rebuilt CI and code review to be agentic-first, with scheduled pipelines that route tickets and pull requests to agents for structured, severity-ranked analysis.
• Drove AI adoption for the group, defining agentic workflow standards and coaching engineers on coding agents.
• Led architectural design for enterprise data connectivity services, building data persistence and processing pipelines in Go, Java, and DuckDB.
• Designed and tuned data models and query performance for large-scale enterprise workloads.
• Set team-wide engineering standards and authored technical designs for major features.

Appian · McLean, VA

• Built low-code data modeling tools in Java and Go, automating data manipulation across relational source systems.
• Designed services for a real-time Go and DuckDB datastore, enabling rapid data sync for enterprise clients.
• Automated backend schema management with Liquibase, replacing hand-written migration SQL.
• Mentored junior engineers and interns through code reviews and technical guidance.

TriNet USA · Indian Land, SC

• Led a contractor team migrating a legacy AngularJS UI to modern Angular, launching to 300,000+ daily active users.
• Architected and developed the component framework for the new user interface.
• Delivered a proof-of-concept for a low-code tool that cut internal application development time from months to days.

TriNet USA · Indian Land, SC

• Optimized the data model for benefits administration, improving SQL query performance by 30%.
• Designed and developed new REST API endpoints using Java and Spring Boot for a high-traffic platform.
• Streamlined the code review and QE lifecycle, speeding production deployment throughput by 20%.