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Where I've been
Jun 2025 to now · Bellevue, WA
Senior Developer Advocate
Databricks (joined via Neon acquisition)
–Lead technical content, demos, and developer education for Lakebase, Neon Postgres, and Databricks Apps.
–Speak at conferences and meetups: Data + AI Summit 2026, DevConnect Bellevue, Seattle Postgres.
–Previously Field Engineering Staff after the acquisition (Jun 2025 to Dec 2025), then transitioned to Senior Developer Advocate.
Oct 2024 to Jun 2025 · Portland, OR
Senior Solutions Engineer
Neon (acquired by Databricks)
–Built customer-facing tooling (pg-prechecks) and formal PoV Design Plans to shorten the enterprise sales cycle.
–Migrated and optimized customer workloads from RDS, Aurora, Heroku, Yugabyte, Supabase, and PlanetScale to Neon.
–Led onboarding and PoCs for strategic customers with complex workloads and large datasets.
–Represented Neon at 10+ conferences and led an AWS Partner workshop with 400+ participants.
Mar 2024 to Oct 2024 · Remote, US
Senior Solutions Engineer
Clerk
–Owned the startup program, providing dedicated pricing and technical support.
–Main technical point of contact for PLG deals across CRM tracking, renewals, BAAs, and enterprise contracts.
–Designed tailored solutions and built demos and integration plans in collaboration with the product team.
Mar 2022 to Mar 2024 · Portland, OR
Solutions Engineer
PlanetScale
–120% quota attainment in FY22 and FY23; 100% in Q1 2024.
–Supported enterprise and commercial sales conversations; provided technical review and recommendations for production deployments.
–Helped prospects set up, shard, and benchmark PlanetScale during PoC/PoV.
–Wrote engineering blog posts with 40,000+ pageviews (including a top-ten most-viewed post); led a MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 upgrade webinar.
Oct 2019 to Feb 2022 · San Francisco, CA
Cloud Solutions Engineer
SingleStore
–First Cloud Solutions Engineer dedicated to the SingleStore Managed Service platform (previously MemSQL Helios).
–Supported customer adoption from Discovery through PoC and Post-Sales; managed Intercom (website chatbot) with a defined SLA during Pacific business hours.
–Built technical enablement for the SE team and internal tooling for pipeline forecasting.
Dec 2015 to May 2019 · Berkeley, CA
Online Developer
The Daily Californian
–Designed special pages for the newspaper's website and managed the mobile development team.
–Built back-end logic in C# to extract calculation dependencies from customer databases.
–Prototyped graph visualization tools using ASP.NET Core MVC.
2015 to 2019 · Berkeley, CA
B.S., EECS & Geography (Earth Systems)
University of California, Berkeley
–Minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
–Senior research: predicting the economic trajectory of the San Joaquin Valley's agriculture sector using ML (Python, TensorFlow).
–Earlier research and internships: UC Berkeley Seismological Lab, Engineers for Exploration (UCSD), Doris Duke Conservation Scholar (NAU), and GIS intern at the National Parks Conservation Association.