Software Architect | February 2024 - Present

A return to an engineering role.

I work with and advise multiple groups to assist in the design and implementation of systems supporting our co-op members. This includes participation in architectural reviews and platform enablement.

Some of the larger projects include:

• actively designing and building an application for evaluating and scoring service quality and adherence to best practices
• created an internal developer platform (IDP) using Backstage, writing multiple custom integrations
• maintaining the strategic vision for Developer Experience (DevX aka DX) related to our Backstage implementation
• wrote an internal synthetic monitoring application in Go
• modernizing SpringBoot applications to latest specifications

Teaching and presenting:

I did present to a crowd of over 200 developers about the release of our internal developer platform using Backstage. This talk was so well-received, I decided to recreate it as a tool for onboarding new developers!

While I can’t share it publicly, I can provide a teaser of the fun thumbnail I created for it:

Check out this video of me presenting to the St. Louis Go Meetup about some of the things I was working on using Go and htmx.