resume
experience
FOSSA
Senior Customer Support Engineer
- Managed a company-wide ticket volume exceeding 2,000 annually as part of a two-person support team.
- Acted as a Customer Success Engineer/Solutions Architect for key accounts, taking ownership of client success and technical solutions.
- Built an MCP server for troubleshooting FOSSA support queries
- Helped define the roles and responsibilities of support through major company restructures
- Collaborated w/ Product/Engineering to develop robust processes for resolving customer technical issues
- Currently expanding responsibilities and documenting new contributions post-promotion
Customer Support Engineer
- Diagnosed and resolved bugs across diverse tech stacks, including Haskell, TypeScript, Rust, Go, React, Redux, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL.
- Independently handled customer support for nearly a year, managing 1,000–1,500 tickets annually.
- Authored internal and external documentation to improve knowledge sharing and customer onboarding.
- Submitted pull requests for bug fixes and feature requests when time permitted.
- Developed custom scripts to address unique customer needs not supported by the API.
- Co-hosted a podcast on open-source software management and startup life.
- Collaborated with a team of three to reduce "New/Open" Zendesk tickets by 97.73% (from over 500) within one year and cut backlog by over 25%.
- Led the migration from Zendesk to a new support platform to streamline operations.
- Reproduced bugs for FOSSA's Software Composition Analysis tool supporting 20+ programming languages.
- Played a key role in onboarding a Support Engineering Manager and additional team members.
skills
customer success
- Account ownership & technical relationship management
- Solutions architecture for key accounts
- Customer onboarding & adoption
- Health monitoring & renewal support
- Translating customer needs into product feedback
- Cross-functional escalation with Product/Engineering
- Technical documentation & enablement
building
- Haskell
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Go
- React/Redux
- PostgreSQL
- Helm
- Terraform
- Claude Agent SDK
- OpenCode API
- MCP servers
- Networking
- Server administration (Proxmox)
- Custom scripts & API work
- Open-source PRs