Whoami

I'm a Senior Engineer at HeroDevs, where I'm building out our Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). My current focus is building a product security platform to help teams manage vulnerabilities in end-of-life open-source software.

I live in Memphis, TN with my wife, two children, and two dogs. In my free time I love watching the Memphis Grizzlies, reading science fiction books, and building a treehouse in the backyard.

How I Got Here

My path to engineering started at a legal tech company shortly after graduating from law school. I started there as an attorney, but picked up bits and pieces of coding skills from several programmers I worked with. The more I programmed, the more I loved it. I started with simple Excel macros to speed up repetitive tasks. Then I built custom queries to sift through thousands of documents much more efficiently.

At a certain point, I knew it was time to give programming a real shot. I enrolled in the Flatiron immersive software engineering bootcamp — the inaugural cohort at the recently opened Atlanta campus. Over the course of several months I learned JavaScript, React, Redux, Ruby, and Rails. I also conducted pair programming and practiced agile software development.

After graduating from Flatiron, I moved to Memphis and spent several years building Angular applications for enterprise clients. That work led me to HeroDevs, where I've gone from solutions architecture to leading engineering efforts on our product security platform.