Work

Employment

Manager of six infrastructure engineers. Owned the experience of developing, testing, deploying and operating software for 40+ product-driven engineers
Supported improvements to all DORA metrics by partnering with product teams to optimize CI workloads, afford self-service provisioning, improve observability, and eliminate operational dependencies
Migrated all candidate workloads to AWS EKS, improving workload security, performance and reducing operational costs without compromising on deployment frequency or lead time
Partnered with CISO to meet all SOC2 and HIPAA compliance measures. Facilitated third-party pen-test scope and remediation. Automated AWS onboarding of all staff through AWS Identity Center and introduced policy-as-code
Drove AI adoption for Day 2 operations including drift+compliance, incident ops, security, and cost optimization
Regular rotations in on-call, incident response and customer support

Managed 8 backend engineers and 4 platform engineers
Oversaw delivery of ChatGPT plugin and numerous other features delivered by cross-functional teams
Lead deployment frequency improvements from every two weeks to on-demand
Drove qualitative improvement to local development experience resulting in significantly reduced lead times
Introduced distributed tracing and canonical logs leading to 20% reduction in DataDog costs

Scaled team of 5 to 10 engineers and 1 additional manager
Managed two agile cross-functional product development teams
Lead partner integration API MVP to delivery in under 2 months
Drove domain-driven design inspired improvements to backend system leading to 80% reduction in change failure rate

Managed team of 4 platform engineers
Lead Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and self-service Terraform PR workflows using Atlantis
Delivered self-service CI/CD workflows on Jenkins

Lead migration to container based deployments
Deployed and operated centralized structured logging and metric services using Elastic stack

Owned and operated internal APIs and management console
Lead adoption of Ansible and Terraform for cloud resource management and operations
Open source and local Python community relations

Lead engineer on numerous web, mobile and touch-screen kiosk applications for clients including University of Florida, SeaWorld, and Cleveland Museum of Art

Award winning web application and content development. Clients included 2K Games, Elektra Records, Jose Cuervo, Mitchum, Progressive Auto, Stride Gum, Trident Gum, Umbro, and Virgin America

Designer and developer of identity systems, stationery, collateral, interactive CD-ROMs, touch-screen kiosks, and websites for clients such as Welch Allyn, PPC and various local small businesses.