I design genetic algorithms and optimization systems that schedule aircraft and crews for a private aviation fleet — mission-critical software where a better fitness function is worth millions. Security-first by training, with an M.S. in Cybersecurity Engineering.
I'm a Software Engineer II and my company's subject-matter expert in genetic algorithms — architecting the optimization engines that generate schedules for an entire pilot workforce and allocate aircraft across a private aviation fleet. The systems I own inform multimillion-dollar operational decisions every day.
My work lives where NP-hard combinatorial problems meet production reality: crossover operators, mutation strategies, fitness-score balancing, and violation detection — tuned every bidding period against evolving business goals, then shipped through CI/CD with more than a year of zero user-facing downtime.
With an M.S. in Cybersecurity Engineering and CompTIA Security+ certification, I bring a security-first mindset to everything I build — from CVE remediation across production systems to FAA-accepted research on IT/OT convergence. I collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, work in the company's AI working group, and build university talent pipelines.
From Innovation Center intern to lead engineer on patented optimization technology.
Flexjet LLC — Innovation Center · Daytona Beach, FL
Center for Aerospace Resilient Systems
A partial selection of the impact I've made at Flexjet.
Re-architected and revived a genetic-algorithm engine that allocates aircraft across an entire private aviation fleet, informing multimillion-dollar operational decisions. Runs continuously in production on automated 2-hour cycles. Designed an experimental minimal-impact run mode that improves utilization and repositioning efficiency while minimizing schedule disruption — now part of daily operations, and covered by an issued US patent.
Architected a genetic-algorithm crew scheduling system generating thousands of individual schedules monthly for 400+ pilots — the system of record for the pilot workforce. Owns the full algorithmic core: crossover methods, mutation strategies, fitness-score balancing, violation detection, and coverage weighting, retuned each bidding period. Sustained 12+ months of zero user-facing downtime deploying a stochastic system to production.
Led a full-stack re-architecture of a workforce preference-bidding platform, shipped as a single synchronized release spanning 6+ microservices across 3 development offices with a coordinated mobile launch. Redesigned the preference data model, API contracts, and optimizer integration layer — driving measurable gains in pilot satisfaction and retention, a multimillion-dollar cost lever.
Conceived and built the foundation and MVP of a revenue-critical invoicing system on an event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka. Root-caused and eliminated 21,000+ processing errors across the event pipeline, restoring data integrity to a financial system. Instrumented observability, monitoring, and alerting with Datadog.
Championed security across the platform: remediated critical- and high-severity CVEs on multiple production systems (often beyond assigned scope, earning formal commendation), owned monthly security patching and production-health monitoring, hardened company-wide database access permissions with the DBA lead, and migrated RabbitMQ brokers across production environments in 2 data centers with no consumer downtime.
Things I've designed and shipped on my own time.
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Co-invented a fleet-optimization system that automatically schedules private aircraft by iteratively matching flight requests against aircraft availability and crew constraints. The patented technology coordinates a large fractional-ownership fleet — receiving scheduling requests across user types and iteratively allocating aircraft while determining crew availability.
The underlying work spans genetic-algorithm architecture, custom mutation and crossover operators, constraint satisfaction, and multi-objective fitness evaluation applied to large-scale resource allocation in real-time operational environments.
view patent US-12430596-B2Coverage and mentions from industry and university press.
Featured for hosting Eagle Job Shadow Day, giving nearly 200 Embry-Riddle students firsthand exposure to careers at major aerospace employers.
read articleProfile of how Embry-Riddle students gain production-level experience through Flexjet's Research Park internships — the crew-schedule optimization work that later became patented technology.
read articleFeatured among the Innovation Center team at the opening of Flexjet's expanded 3,000-sq-ft Innovation and Career Center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — a facility housing internships that introduce students to business aviation technology careers.
read articleLocal coverage of the expanded Innovation and Career Center at Embry-Riddle's Research Park, spotlighting the staff and interns building aviation technology in a sector employing more workers than U.S. airlines and the Air Force combined.
read articleLanguages, frameworks, and domains of expertise.
Growing engineers, building partnerships, and representing the organization.
Owned Agile/Scrum ceremonies — sprint planning, user-story creation, and work allocation for interns and full-time engineers. Guided cross-functional execution across multiple concurrent projects while keeping delivery aligned with business goals.
Mentored numerous engineers, including senior engineers through a high-difficulty optimization project to successful delivery, and led 3 interns through onboarding, project work, and professional growth — with multiple converting to full-time roles.
Selected to lead the company AI working group; chaired meetings at the IT Director's request, authored AI adoption standards, and mentored engineers company-wide on effective and secure AI usage in development workflows.
Hardened enterprise shared libraries, UI utilities, and the shared microservice database template — resolving CI/CD build and configuration failures blocking multiple teams. Authored platform documentation recognized by senior developers and directors.
Represented the company to business leaders, investors, and prospective partners at external venues — communicating technical capabilities and demonstrating system value through clear presentation of engineering achievements.
Served as primary engineering point of contact between crew services, operations, product, IT, API, and mobile teams — translating business requirements and user feedback directly into algorithm enhancements and system features.
Graduate study in secure systems engineering, network defense, and aviation cybersecurity — applied through FAA-accepted research on IT/OT convergence. Graduated December 2024.
Foundation in algorithms, software engineering, and systems — completed alongside the Innovation Center internship where the patented genetic algorithm work began. Graduated May 2023.
Academic partnerships, FAA-accepted reports, and knowledge sharing.
Primary contributor to three FAA-accepted research reports through the Center for Aerospace Resilient Systems, examining commercial cybersecurity and data-science tooling at the convergence of information technology and operational technology in aviation.
Established and led a research collaboration with a data-science student team at Embry-Riddle analyzing workforce scheduling preferences. Provided data, direction, and mentorship — findings now guide the optimizer roadmap.
Hosted REU events for two groups of 25+ Embry-Riddle students, connecting academic research to industry careers in data science and software engineering — building a sustainable university talent pipeline.
Organized and led an immersive industry-exposure day for Embry-Riddle students, coordinating with professors and career services. The event converted directly into new intern hires and earned university press coverage.
Open to conversations about optimization engineering, aviation technology, cybersecurity, and interesting hard problems. The fastest route is email.