A working life.

Employment

Member of Technical Staff · poolside

November 2024 to Present · 1 yr 7 mos

• Engineering manager for the agentic layer of the model factory — the connective tissue that rolls out research improvements from pre-/post-training and evals across the organization
• …and for the enterprise Console for managed agents — the control plane where engineering and platform teams govern how agents operate, from sandbox, MCP, and tooling policies to full session traceability, observability, and usage metrics
• Individual contributor on Atlas, poolside’s inference engine, bringing poolside’s models to AWS Bedrock

Senior Software Engineer · GitHub

July 2021 to Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Part of the initial GitHub Copilot team, taking it from research to market leader — worked on model hosting, prompt engineering, RAG, and IDE plugins for code completions and chat
• Part of the founding team of Copilot Chat, working closely with the VS Code team on the first release
• Built the first context engine for Copilot Chat, and an intent classifier to dynamically adapt context to user behavior
• Ran A/B testing to optimize model performance and quality, increasing acceptance rate by 15%
• Optimized caching and debouncing strategy to cut inference costs
• Initially worked on CodeQL

Senior Software Engineer · Gradle Inc.

Feb 2020 to May 2021 · 1 yrs

• Worked on the Gradle Build Tool, on the team focused on the JVM ecosystem
• Implemented toolchain support in Gradle 6.7
• Implemented support for Groovy 3 in Gradle DSL and the Gradle core
• Helped the team prioritize and refine the issue backlog to focus on the highest-value work

Principal Engineer · Tasktop Technologies Inc

Oct 2010 to Feb 2020 · 9 yrs

• Helped grow the company from 20 to 150 people; Tasktop was later acquired by Planview
• Team lead of the SDK team, architecting the integration factory and its TCK-driven connectors to 3rd-party ALM tools (REST/SOAP/RDF/OData)
• Committer on Eclipse Mylyn, with deep work in OSGi, PDE and Eclipse Tycho builds

Open Source Engineer · EclipseSource / Innoopract GmbH

Jul 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Committer on the Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP), single-sourcing RCP applications to the web
• Consulting, trainings and architecture reviews for OSGi, PDE Build and RAP customer projects

Advisor

Advisor · Dosu

1.5 yrs

• Advising Dosu on scaling their agent architecture and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as usage grows
• Guiding how they turn production telemetry into signal — drawing product and reliability conclusions from real-world agent behavior

Honors & Awards

• ◇ Java Champion — Inducted 2021
• ◇ Co-inventor — Algorithm to sync linked data bidirectionally — US Patent US9459839B2
• ◇ Jazoon Rookie Award Winner 2011 — Jazoon 2011 (Zurich)
• ◇ Jazoon Rookie Award Winner 2010 — Jazoon 2010 (Zurich)
• ◇ Nominated as Eclipse Top Contributor 2006 — Eclipse Foundation

Initiatives

• ◇ Google Summer of Code Student — Scholarship: CSS Theme Editor for RAP (Eclipse Foundation) 2010
• ◇ Google Summer of Code Student — Scholarship: Extract Method refactoring revival for JDT (Eclipse Foundation) 2009
• ◇ Google Summer of Code Student — Scholarship: Concurrency-related refactorings for JDT (Eclipse Foundation) 2008
• ◇ Google Summer of Code Student — Scholarship: Improve multi-monitor support in Eclipse (Eclipse Foundation) 2007