Principal/Architect Software Engineer with 24+ years of experience. High performance, high reliability, distributed networks. Technical leadership of small groups and mentoring junior engineers while also directly contributing to the Software Engineering effort. Design new high performance software from scratch or analyze an existing system and improve its performance. Comfortable negotiating with stakeholders to design the right solution. I want to make things I'm proud of that matter to people and make the world a better place; and I want to solve interesting technical challenges along the way.