2026 – Present
Procore Technologies
Software Engineering Manager, Aerial Capture
Joined Procore as part of the DroneDeploy acquisition, leading the Dock Drones and Flight software team — all things flight.
About
I'm a full-stack software engineer turned manager who loves blending creativity and technology to build engaging, interactive applications. Today I manage the combined Dock Drones and Flight software team at Procore, which acquired DroneDeploy in 2026 — doing all things flight.
I like getting into the hard problems early, while they're still cheap to solve. Beyond development, I clear roadblocks for my team and see client projects through from first pitch to final delivery.
Highlights
70%+faster builds after optimizing DroneDeploy's Angular Jenkins CI pipeline
100sof job sites for our Dock Drones autonomous drone program
10×faster product-image loads (67% smaller downloads) from an AWS CDN at Norwex
0 → 1Founding engineer at Careexpand — built the pilot product, then led the team
Experience
2020 – 2026
DroneDeploy
Software Engineering Manager, Aerial Capture 2026
Promoted to manage the combined Dock Drones and Flight software team.
Team Lead, Dock Drones Automation 2025 – 2026
Engineer and tech lead for Dock Drones, driving product coordination, project management and technical execution to scale fully autonomous drones to hundreds of job sites.
Lead Software Engineer, Flight 2023 – 2025
- Cut Angular Jenkins CI build time by more than 70%
- Led integration and international validation of edge ML crop assessment for Android and Mavic 3 Enterprise
- Architected a reliable in-flight RTK connection workflow
- Built data analytics tools for engineering and support teams
- Cleared roadblocks across team projects; contributed to client pitches, SOWs, planning and quarterly strategy
Flight Team Tech Lead 2022 – 2023
Led support for DJI's Mavic 3 Enterprise — FPV, waypoint missions, telemetry and mission management — bringing DroneDeploy to the new generation of drones. Architected a new JS bridge between the Angular and native app layers.
Senior Software Engineer 2020 – 2022
Led support for DJI's Mavic Air 2 via Dronelink integration, pushing autonomous drone image capture to its limits.
2019 – 2020
Norwex USA
Mobile Application Developer
Built Norwex's e-commerce mobile app to grow the company's digital presence and improve the shopping experience.
- Deployed a native AWS CDN for product images, cutting load time 10× and download size 67%
- Designed a proof-of-concept serverless, queue-based ordering system
- Built a shared web/mobile product search component
- Migrated the app from Cordova to Ionic Capacitor
- Rewrote GitLab pipeline scripts from Bash to Node.js
2016 – 2019
Careexpand
Health-tech startup connecting doctors and patients
Lead Software Engineer 2017 – 2019
- Partnered with the CEO on company vision and direction; managed the engineering team
- Adapted the software suite to five business lines in one year
- Led the patient portal: voice, video, chat and health-record visualization
- Designed UI, UX and backend for automated protocols, tracking and analytics
- Researched real-time cardiac telemetry; delivered real-time analytics for operations
- Managed multiple integration projects
Founding Software Engineer 2016
First engineer at the company; built the full-stack JavaScript pilot product alongside the CEO.
2014 – 2017
Freelance
Software Engineer · Textual Analysis Tool
Designed and built a web app that helps students understand philosophical texts by streamlining the analysis process.
Certifications
- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot
- B.A., Computer Science · University of Dallas
Lab
Experiments, demos, write-ups and ways I'm using AI, in various states of finished.
Earlier
- 2015Computer Science Teacher, Rex Programming
Taught middle schoolers introductory PHP and server-side programming. - 2013, 2014Student Intern, Sandia National Laboratories — Center for Cyber Defenders
Led a team building a network-traffic analysis UI; extended the open-source Trigger project; built a Python API for REST and JSON-RPC. - 2012 – 2016Student Aide, University of Dallas (Rome Office)
Office IT and website solutions. - 2011, 2012Software Engineer Intern, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB
Workflow tools for digital paperwork, SharePoint sites, SQL procedures and web apps.
Education & more
Education
University of Dallas, 2012 – 2016
B.A., Computer Science and Classics
Top skills
Technical problem-solving and obstacle removal · Solution architecture · Solution delivery
Languages
English (native) · Latin, Ancient Greek (limited working)
Honors
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (3×)
- 3rd Award, International Science and Engineering Fair — Computer Science
- 1st Place, New Mexico State Science Fair — Math