Career Profile

SecDevOps cheerleader. I turn pizza and coffee into reliable infrastructure and pipelines. I enjoy removing roadblocks in development and empowering my team to work at maximum efficiency.

Experiences

Solution Architect 1

2023 - Present
EPAM Systems

Architecting multiple application cloud transformations into AWS for a fortune 10 company

Designing solutions to be highly available, minimize developer toil, and increase reliability using AWS 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

GCP

Ruby

C#

C++

Kotlin/Native