Staff Software Architect at The Weather Company | Atlanta, GA
I architect content and configuration systems that serve hundreds of millions of users across one of the top 50 websites in the US, supporting 211 locales worldwide.
Leading the digital transformation of Weather.com — migrating from a 10+ year monolithic React framework and legacy CMS to Next.js, Vercel, and Payload CMS. The migration covers millions of dynamic routes serving real-time weather data globally to hundreds of millions of monthly users.
My path to staff architect wasn't conventional. I started in a 24/7 operations center, taught myself to code, built physical broadcast studios from scratch, led engineering teams, and progressively took ownership of larger and more complex systems — all at the same company over 11+ years.
| Period | Role | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 - Present | Staff Software Architect | Leading Weather.com's migration to Next.js + Payload CMS |
| 2024 | Consumer Architect | Overhauled mobile app config management — Contentful, server-driven UI, 50+ dev environments |
| 2021 - 2024 | Manager, Content Engineering | Led the content engineering team; returned to IC track by choice |
| 2017 - 2021 | Tech Lead, Video Platform | 7K+ assets/day, 70M+ daily plays, 1PB+ delivered globally at 99.9% uptime. Saved $2.5M/yr replacing DAM systems |
| 2015 - 2017 | Software Engineer | Live-migrated 1.2M video assets between DAM platforms. Built two broadcast studios from scratch |
| 2014 - 2015 | Technical Operations | Entry point. Fastest promotion in the ops center. Earned CCNA |
| 2007 - 2014 | Founder, Sacred Gaming | Component-level electronics repair — 15K+ consoles serviced, 99% success rate |
- The hardest architecture problems aren't technical — they're organizational
- Replacing the thing you built three years ago because conditions changed isn't failure — it's judgment
- Understanding how users actually experience the product makes every architectural decision better
