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Lead Software Engineer | Application, platform, and delivery engineering

I am a Lead Software Engineer at State Farm. I work across Java and Spring Boot services, GraphQL APIs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Kubernetes, secure delivery, and production observability.

This wiki explains how I think about building and operating software. It also covers how I use Dynatrace, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Claude, and Codex in the engineering workflow. The examples are intentionally general so they do not expose employer-specific architecture or confidential information.

Start here

• Platform engineering: How I structure AWS, ROSA, Kubernetes, and OpenShift responsibilities
• Secure delivery: How GitLab CI and Snyk support safer releases
• Observability and collaboration: How Dynatrace and team tools connect signals to action
• Spring Boot on ROSA: How I think about running Java services on OpenShift
• Earlier experience: The application, cloud, and delivery technologies in my background
• AI-assisted engineering: How I use Claude and Codex with engineering safeguards
• Working principles: The standards I use to make technical decisions and lead work

A useful definition of done

A system is not finished when it runs on a developer laptop. It is finished when the team can deploy it safely, observe it in production, recover it under pressure, and explain how it works to the next engineer.