A decade-plus
Law
I started as a legal aid lawyer, representing families in housing, benefits, and custody cases, often in their homes.
Then I moved into building programs. I designed a volunteer lawyer program that went on to serve more than 20,000 people sued over consumer debt, coordinated an online tool that helped Superstorm Sandy survivors write their own FEMA appeals, and directed programs at the country's first community court.
Nearly a decade
Software
At Rakuten Advertising I went from junior engineer to technical lead to senior DevOps engineer. I led a squad of four on a dozen production services and moved about ten services onto Kubernetes.
I also built two AI agents for the operations team. One investigates cluster incidents and recommends a fix. By design, it can't change anything itself.
Now
Both
Lately I've been building small tools on public court and legal data. A few are below.
I'm looking for senior and staff engineering roles, especially where law and software meet.
Recent projects
- debt-docket Who files debt-collection lawsuits in Houston, for how much, and how the cases end, from public court records, with the pipeline that keeps it current.
- intake-classification-eval Two model runs against a legal aid intake dataset from Stanford's Legal Design Lab, showing how much the prompt shapes the results.
- pad-lab A small data platform on public FEC campaign-finance data, with Terraform, dbt, BigQuery, and a live dashboard.