Quality engineer · Product-minded builder · Seattle
I turn messy workflows into tools people can trust, from enterprise data migration and test automation to a live map for following wildlife sightings around Puget Sound.
Building thoughtful tools, one clear decision at a time.
Selected work
Products, systems, and workflows where good quality work made a complicated problem easier to understand.
A live map for following wildlife sightings through time, place, and movement.
Whale reports around Puget Sound often arrive as scattered posts and comments. The details are there, but the movement is hard to see. I built Spyhop to turn those reports into a connected map and timeline.
I designed and built the product, backend, interaction model, and quality system.
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An orbital mechanics sandbox that turns real trajectory planning into something visual and tactile.
Built with a tested physics core, direct-manipulation maneuver nodes, and live mission-time playback.
I build quality practices around the way a system actually works, not around a test count.
That has included migration validation across more than eight teams, shared automation frameworks, and practical AI-assisted workflows.
How I work
I map the users, data, handoffs, and failure paths before choosing a test or a tool.
I move useful work from exploration into reusable workflows and deterministic checks.
I review, run, debug, and preserve the rules that future changes need to keep.
Experience
CHG Healthcare
Built quality strategy and validation for a complex Salesforce migration, coordinating risk and coverage across more than eight engineering teams.
1-800 Contacts
Led automation, release quality, and cross-team improvements that helped reduce financially impactful production bugs by 95 percent year over year.
Operations and supply chain
Learned to see how people, tools, inventory, and process fit together long before I started writing software.
Outside work
I have spent years training, performing, and teaching partner acrobatics. It is a practice in trust, clear feedback, and staying calm while solving a physical problem.
See acrobaticsLong days in the mountains are how I reset. I like the patience and steady problem solving of covering a lot of ground under my own power.
I photograph wildlife around the Salish Sea. Paying attention to movement, conditions, and small changes is also part of what led me to build Spyhop.
See photographyLet’s talk
Especially where quality, product thinking, and AI-assisted engineering overlap.
djosephwalsh@gmail.com