Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead
Zendesk
Mar 2023 – Mar 2026
Denver Metropolitan Area
Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead
Zendesk
Mar 2023 – Mar 2026
Denver Metropolitan Area
Designed and shipped agentic AI orchestration on the engineering organization, while continuing to lead the team responsible for Zendesk's email ingestion and ticket creation infrastructure at Gmail-class scale.
- Designed agentic JIRA story implementation workflows enforced by custom team-persona rules and guardrails. Reduced story review time by 60 to 70 percent, measured via sprint metric scripts and prompted agent skills pulling live JIRA data.
- Built a cross-tool agentic delivery system spanning implementation, automated testing, and feature rollout monitoring. Integrated Datadog and PagerDuty-backed skills directly into rollout workflows to surface reliability signals in real time.
- Technical lead for the core team responsible for large-scale email ingestion, HTML decomposition, classification, routing, and ticket creation at Gmail-class scale.
- Owned architectural direction, delivery strategy, and operational reliability posture for customer interaction processing infrastructure.
- Reduced production incidents about 50 percent year over year through proactive observability investment and Datadog-integrated rollout monitoring. Reached a steady baseline of fewer than five incidents per quarter, most attributable to upstream and downstream systems rather than introduced defects.
- Mentored senior engineers and emerging tech leads on system decomposition, tradeoff analysis, and execution discipline.
- Ruby
- Rails
- TypeScript
- React
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
- MCP
- LLM orchestration