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Career

Reverse-chronological. Infrastructure, automation, and eight years where the job was talking to people as much as machines.

2025 — present
Founder
Arkship
Building declarative, agentic development stacks and local-first products. Owning the whole surface: architecture, infrastructure, and the company around it.
2023 — 2025
Automation & Infrastructure
Turn 10 @ Xbox Game Studios
Managed a team of automation engineers covering infrastructure, testing, and DevOps for the studio. Consolidated two proprietary C# test frameworks into one, and built the 50+ TeamCity pipelines that validated Forza Horizon 5's PlayStation launch.
2022 — 2023
Software Engineer
KonstellationApp
Stood up AWS EKS clusters, IAM, and autoscaling for a TypeScript distributed-tracing product, with Node.js/Express services and Kubernetes ingress routing in front of containerized microservices.
2019 — 2022
Software Engineer
Game Jelly Games
An indie studio founded with former Blizzard colleagues. Real-time multiplayer game systems in C#: RPC networking, a pub-sub component architecture, and layered state machines to keep complex game state manageable.
2019 — 2022
Community Manager
NCSOFT
Overhauled the mobile team's communications strategy across Discord and forums, reported on 31 broadcast events to executives, and wrote anti-bot tooling that nearly eliminated the marketing team's manual vote validation.
2014 — 2019
Community Manager
Blizzard Entertainment
The bridge between StarCraft II and its players: 100+ global communications, relationships with 25+ creators reaching 10M+ followers, esports social channels growing ~50% a year, and an international community summit with attendees from 12 countries.
2005 — 2007
Automation Engineer
Apple Mortgage & Loan
A .NET application that automated the creation of thousands of customized mailers — it replaced a manual data-processing team and cut costs by over 90%.
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