Career Profile

Platform engineering & DevSecOps cheerleader. I turn pizza and coffee into reliable infrastructure and pipelines. I enjoy removing roadblocks and pain points in development and empowering my team to work at maximum efficiency.

Experiences

Solution Architect 1 & Platform Engineer

2023 - Present
EPAM Systems

Architecting multiple application transformations and migrations into AWS and/or K8s for a fortune 10 company

Integrating OSS tools and internal managed services to accelerate developer throughput and increase positive developer/operator experiences

Designing solutions to be highly available, minimize developer toil, and increase reliability using AWS and cloud-native technologies

Regularly briefing executive leadership regarding timeline and milestone expectations and cost estimations

Lead Systems Engineer & Resource Manager

2019 - 2023
EPAM Systems

Ownership of multiple lift/shift migrations from on-prem to GCP and AWS

Management and training of junior engineers in SecDevOps and Systems Engineering theory and application with ci/cd, terraform, and ansible

Education of clients in modern cloud philosophy and design. Evangelization of SecDevOps tooling and best practices

Sr. DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2019
Nextgen Healthcare: DevOps Center Of Excellence

Building AWS platform modules(terraform/cloudformation) with HIPAA compliance at the core

Creating and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines for windows/linux based technical stacks using jenkins/codepipeline/codebuild and leveraging nodejs, C#, Java, Python, etc

Internal consulting with various product teams to propagate agile workflows and modern development practices throughout the enterprise

DevOps Engineer

2014 - 2017
iHeart: Revenue Management

Integrated multiple programs, databases, and API’s for a scripted migration into the Salesforce cloud, saving 4000+ man hours

Lead efforts to apply DevOps principles to our flagship product with Chef and AWS, reducing new environment deployment time from 2 weeks to 4 hours

Crafted CI/CD pipeline integrating Team Foundation Server, Chef, and AWS from check-in to production including unit and integration tests

Gameplay Programmer

2014 - 2015
Metamorphic Games: Mobile games startup

Created multiple trap mechanics

Improved control interfaces for mobile and PC ports

Offered Team Lead position

Projects

Kubernetes local development - Learning K8s local development accelerators through Tilt and DOKS(Digital Ocean k8s) with OpenFaas
Golang - I’ve fallen in love with golang because it has such incredible benefits for common SecDevOps work, including but hardly limited to: scripting, CLI creation, parallel/batch processing. And it’s impossible not to love the ease of development that the built-in toolchain provides.

Skills & Proficiency

Containers

AWS

Python 3

Kubernetes

Go