I am a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in Platform Engineering and DevSecOps. I focus on building the "paved roads" that allow teams to scale without friction. My work bridges the gap between high-performance infrastructure and developer productivity.
I thrive in high-stakes environments where the cost of failure is high. My professional background includes:
- Election Night Ops: Maintained 100% uptime for AP News and NPR during the 2024 Presidential Election, managing traffic spikes of 1M page views every 5 minutes.
- Global Threat Mitigation: Co-led the response to a 37M RPM botnet attack, implementing real-time edge filtering and multi-layered WAF strategies to protect production origins.
- Scale & Standardization: Expert at managing complex application stacks including Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Percona, Solr, and Tomcat at enterprise scale.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Cloud | AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) |
| IaC / DevOps | Terraform, Gyro, CloudFormation, Kubernetes (GKE, EKS), Helm, Docker, Jenkins, Chef |
| Observability | Datadog, Coralogix, Cloud Logging, Zabbix, Pingdom, Graylog, PagerDuty |
| Data & Search | MySQL, Percona, AWS Aurora, Solr, OpenSearch, AWS Elasticsearch |
| Automation & Sec | Python, Bash, Git, WAF, Bot Mitigation, CI/CD Pipelines |
These projects demonstrate my focus on modernizing infrastructure and reducing operational risk.
- GCP GitOps Lighthouse: A declarative framework using ArgoCD and K3s to establish a single Source of Truth for cluster configurations.
- Hybrid Cloud Failover: A cost-optimized, cross-cloud disaster recovery strategy using Terraform to manage failover between AWS and GCP.
- GKE DevSecOps Pipeline: A "Zero-Key" CI/CD pipeline leveraging Workload Identity Federation (WIF) to eliminate the risk of credential leakage.