Software engineer at Fly.io building cloud sandboxes, AI-powered developer tools, and open source infrastructure. A decade of experience running and supporting cloud databases and developer platforms at Fly.io, Elastic, IBM, and Compose. Comfortable across the stack — Go and TypeScript services, Terraform providers, internal admin tooling, and the operational work that keeps production databases healthy.
Experience
Fly.io Remote
Senior Software Engineer April 2025 — Present
- Built and maintain the internal admin tool for Managed Postgres — a critical interface used daily by the MPG and support teams to triage issues, manage clusters, and build out the product.
- Contribute to flyctl, documentation, and developer tooling.
- Build AI agent tools, Terraform providers, and open source infrastructure in Go and TypeScript.
Software Engineer June 2023 — April 2025
- Shipped key features for Fly Managed Postgres — Postgres 17 support, a dashboard UI for toggling extensions, and a metrics dashboard covering connections, CPU, memory, replication lag, and database operations.
- Built the customer support portal with ticket management, impact levels for premium support, and org-wide visibility.
- Drove the migration from Help Scout to Plain, redesigning the support experience with granular statuses, custom tooling and workflows, and response time SLAs by plan.
- Provided technical support through email and the community forum, working closely with platform engineers to troubleshoot complex issues.
Elastic Remote
Support Engineer January 2022 — June 2023
- Supported some of the largest companies in the world with their Cloud and self-hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana installations.
- Dedicated to providing top-notch support and solutions to help clients achieve their business goals.
IBM Remote
SME — Cloud Databases October 2015 — December 2021
- Subject Matter Expert specializing in the IBM Cloud Databases/Compose domains, resolving customer database issues while enhancing quality of service.
- Participated in on-call rotations, triaged platform issues, executed host maintenance, and automated provisioning using Terraform.
- Focused on Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, and etcd.
Compose Remote
Support Engineer September 2014 — October 2015
- Originally hired as a Support Engineer at this Y-Combinator (S11) backed DBaaS startup, organically moved into an operations/infrastructure/SRE role.
- Serviced PagerDuty alerts, triaged platform issues, provisioned clusters, fixed bugs, and fixed many (many) broken databases.
Standard Bank Group Sandton, South Africa
Snr. Multimedia Designer July 2011 — September 2014
- Worked closely with EXCO and MANCO teams within the Private Clients division, maintaining the consistent brand look and feel.
- Developed a custom internal application to empower Banking Relationship Managers to efficiently generate client information documents.
Open Source
scrub A Python package to scrub PII.
qdrant-on-fly Bootstrap a Qdrant vector database cluster on Fly.io.
claude-tasks Cron + Claude Code.
spritedrop Persistent Taildrop file receiver for Sprites.
Skills
- Languages
- Go · TypeScript · Python · Node.js
- Databases
- PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · Redis · MongoDB · etcd
- Infrastructure
- Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Linux · AWS · Cloudflare · Tailscale · Fly.io
- Observability
- Grafana · Prometheus · Elastic Stack
- Tooling
- Git · GitHub Actions · AI agent tooling
Last updated July 2026. The PDF is generated from the same data as this page on every deploy.
