Professional Summary
Senior quality engineer and automation leader with experience building test architecture, validating APIs and distributed systems, and leading release quality across complex SaaS platforms. Strong background in backend quality strategy, RBAC and integration testing, CI/CD release gating, and observability-driven debugging. Also builds full-stack JavaScript applications that demonstrate practical systems design, API workflows, and interactive product thinking.
Core Competencies
- Automation architecture & framework design
- API validation (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI)
- Backend & platform quality strategy
- RBAC, authN/authZ, & access control testing
- CI/CD integration & release gating
- Performance & load testing
- Distributed system debugging & observability
- JavaScript/TypeScript test development
Experience
- Developed Playwright (TypeScript) automation for complex end-to-end workflows spanning GraphQL, REST, UI, and mocked-response test paths
- Expanded and refactored automated coverage within a large existing suite, improving release confidence for healthcare workflow functionality
- Supported CI-driven quality tracking through GitLab, Xray, and reporting integrations while contributing reusable test components and peer review across the automation codebase
- Led backend quality strategy across five product teams and mentored eight QA engineers supporting platform, data, CI/CD, and integration-heavy feature areas
- Designed the RBAC validation methodology and automation framework for authentication, authorization, permissions, and role hierarchy expansion
- Validated internal APIs, OpenAPI contracts, and external integrations including SSO, OAuth2, and Workato
- Benchmarked migration and data-performance behavior using Postman and K6, and diagnosed distributed backend failures through Datadog telemetry and MongoDB investigation
- Served as release quality gatekeeper for new platform capabilities, defining required test coverage and driving manual-to-automated validation before launch
- Designed and executed large-scale computational chemistry models on high-performance computing infrastructure
- Automated multi-step scientific workflows for reproducible data transformation, simulation, and analysis
- Published peer-reviewed research translating theoretical models into experimentally useful insight
- Taught high school physics and chemistry, designing rigorous curriculum and communicating complex technical concepts clearly
Independent Engineering Projects
- Built and maintain a multi-project web platform featuring interactive media tools, shared-state experiments, browser-based simulation, web-to-radio messaging flows, and live telemetry dashboards
- Designed API-backed workflows with validation, rate limiting, request normalization, polling, and status tracking across several independent applications
- Integrated external network services and protocols to connect browser experiences with APRS data and pager/radio delivery paths
- Developed highly interactive browser applications including camera-to-pixel processing, shared counter state, and real-time simulation controls
- Documented architecture, implementation flow, and roadmap decisions publicly to communicate system behavior and engineering tradeoffs
Technical Skills
Playwright - JavaScript - TypeScript - API Testing - GraphQL - REST - OpenAPI - Selenium - CodeceptJS - Postman - K6 - GitLab CI - Xray - Allure - TestRail - Datadog - MongoDB - React - Node.js - AI-assisted development tools
Education
Software Developer Certificate - Fullstack Academy / Virginia Tech (2024)
Ph.D. Chemistry - Virginia Tech (2017)
B.S. Chemistry - Towson University Honors College, Summa cum laude (2007)