Professional

10+ years of full-stack development experience with PHP, MySQL, AWS, and modern DevOps tools. Currently a Staff Engineer leading technical initiatives and mentoring teams.

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Technology Experience

Years of Experience by Technology
Technology Categories

Professional Experience

Storable - Austin, Texas (Remote)
Software Development & Engineering Leadership - Apr 2021 - Present · 3+ years

Progressive career growth from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, leading technical initiatives and mentoring teams.

Staff Engineer
Mar 2024 - Present

Work on system architecture and technical decisions that affect multiple teams. Lead complex projects from start to finish while helping other senior engineers grow their skills. Work with different teams to make sure our technical solutions actually solve real business problems.

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024

Led a team of software engineers and helped them with technical decisions and project planning. When things broke in production, I figured out why and set up better monitoring so we could catch problems faster. Worked with other teams and clients to build features that actually worked well. Kept our Netsuite billing integration running smoothly and improved how we process customer data.

Software Engineer
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Built and maintained applications for search, billing, and internal tools. Set up monitoring and alerts to keep things running smoothly. Created custom search features and connected to external APIs. Wrote tests to make sure everything worked properly. Improved the frontend and made inventory management easier to use.

Technologies: PHP MySQL Node AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform Datadog System Architecture Solr Redis
Software Engineer
Webroot - Broomfield, Colorado - Oct 2017 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Translated complex business requirements and turned them into working software. Worked with developers, project managers, and QA to get things done. Made sure projects finished on time by planning well and managing my time. Found ways to improve how we worked and pushed for important changes. Showed demos to stakeholders and made sure everyone understood what we were building.

Technologies: PHP MySQL JQuery Bootstrap Linux Apache
Full Stack Web Developer
Gabbart Communications - Durant, OK - Jun 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Built a learning management system (Wisdom LMS) from scratch for teachers, students, and parents. Did all the frontend and backend work, designed the database, and set up automated deployments. Talked to teachers to understand what they needed and built features based on their feedback. Worked directly with school superintendents to make sure we were building something useful. The company ended up selling the product to ParentSquare, which was pretty cool.

Technologies: CakePHP MySQL JQuery Bootstrap Gitlab Pipelines Linux

Education

Bachelors of Computer Science
Southeastern Oklahoma State University - 2015

Awards & Recognition

Security Evangelist
Mark Baldwin · Storable - Jun 2025

When a security issue came up, she spent time and effort coming up with a plan to remediate it as quickly and safely as possible, documenting and executing all the hurdles involved. She is also tireless in making sure her team's voice is heard and in resolving any issues they may face.

Breakthrough Leader of 2024
Chuck Gordon · Storable - Dec 2024

Megan is a Marketplace Tech Lead who stepped up to lead all of Marketplace during her teammates' paternity leave. Megan has been consistently solid in every interaction. She is not just a team lead, she is the rock of the product. She understands the vision of the product and translates that into action with her technical proficiency. She communicates well with her teammates, stakeholders, and customers, and is consistently dependable, taking responsibility for her work and deadlines.

Hidden Hero of 2022
Chuck Gordon · Storable - Dec 2022

Awarded by Product Team for the best of the best.

2016 Software Developer Award - In Recognition of Building Wisdom LMS
Teddy Gabbart · Gabbart Communications - Dec 2016

Awarded for building the Wisdom LMS product that was later acquired by ParentSquare.

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages
PHP (Symfony, CakePHP, Laravel) MySQL Node React Bash Scripting
Technologies & Tools
Docker Kubernetes AWS (SQS, SNS, EC2, EKS, Param Store, Elasticache, RDS) REST/SOAP APIs Datadog Solr Redis/Memcache Gitlab Pipelines Terraform Rundeck Linux Command Line Apache/Nginx Cloudflare
Experience Summary

Total Experience: 10+ years in software development
Current Role: Staff Engineer (Mar 2024 - Present)
Team Size: Experienced leading teams of 5-10 engineers
Specialties: Backend development, PHP frameworks, REST/SOAP APIs, AWS, System Architecture