About Me

Software engineering leader focussed on building resilient software, navigating bureaucracy, and enabling teams.

I’m Logan. I am currently an expert consultant providing advice on reliability and software development to the federal government, specifically with Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education. I have extensive experience in teaching human centered design, software engineering practices, and safety to federal agencies as an engineering leader at 18F. I have also worked as a Staff Engineer in the private sector at companies like BuzzFeed and Kickstarter, where I concentrated on systems operability, safety, and release engineering. Here you can find musings about technology and work. In my non-work time I love to challenge myself with long-distance running, cooking, and learning new things. Some writing related to that may pop up from time to time!

Skills & Technologies

Infrastructure

  • Terraform
  • GitHub/Gitlab CI/CD
  • AWS ECS
  • Docker

Coding

  • Python & Django
  • Ruby & Rails
  • JavaScript
  • Golang

Practices

  • Source control management
  • Containerization
  • CI/CD
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Test-driven development

Focus Areas

  • Learning from incidents
  • Managing software teams
  • Technical writing
  • Delivering software

Experience

2025 - Present

Expert Consultant

Federal Student Aid, an office of the Department of Education
    2021 - 2025

    Principal Consulting Software Engineer

    Federal Government, General Services Administration, 18F
    • Led project to move get.gov from a vendor solution to a new in-house registrar and procured registry for CISA
    • Implemented infrastructure and compliance features for beta.weather.gov for NWS
    • Helped Technology Transformation Services found their DevTools team
    2018 - 2021

    Site Reliability Engineer (Staff)

    BuzzFeed
    • Responsible for deployment, integration, monitoring, and alerting platform serving 600+ microservices that made up BuzzFeed products
    • Directly managed and mentored interns and junior engineers
    • Wrote a mixture of golang and python to deliver platform and infrastructure services
    2015 - 2018

    Platforms Engineer

    Kickstarter
    • Worked in Ruby on Rails to deliver platform features to support the Kickstarter App
    • Implemented on call procedures and support rotation to maintain high uptime
    • Built next-generation metrics and monitoring pipeline using InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana