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Professional Summary

Senior DevOps leader with 15+ years scaling cloud infrastructure and high-performing teams. Proven expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and observability across AWS and GCP environments. Track record of delivering infrastructure modernization, cost optimization, and team enablement at enterprise scale.

Skill Highlights

Building Scalable Infrastructure | Containerizing Applications | Increasing Observability | Automating Deployments | Orchestrating Infrastructure | Monitoring and Analytics | Performance Tuning | Multi-cloud Architecture | Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Buoy Software — 2024 - Present Engineering Manager, DevOps

• Architected and deployed self-hosted observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, reducing third-party monitoring costs while standardizing metrics collection and log aggregation across all environments.
• Drove cloud cost optimization initiatives across compute, storage, and networking, leveraging right-sizing, reserved capacity, and autoscaling strategies.
• Led and mentored DevOps team, establishing standards for infrastructure-as-code, incident response, and deployment practices to improve consistency and reduce operational risk.
• Optimized Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter and KEDA, reducing cluster scale-up latency and cloud spend while enabling dynamic workload scaling.
• Enhanced ArgoCD GitOps by standardizing application definitions, strengthening sync policies, and enabling PR-based promotions across environments.
• Refactored fragmented Terraform states into unified, modular architecture to eliminate state drift and improve deployment velocity.
• Implemented DataHub to centralize data discovery and governance, partnering with data engineering teams to improve ETL pipeline reliability and observability.

Well — 2023 - 2024 Senior DevOps Engineer

• Redesigned Terraform infrastructure into modular, scalable architecture across GCP and AWS environments.
• Improved multi-cloud network design for security and efficiency, including site-to-site tunnels between GCP and AWS.
• Consolidated and optimized GitLab CI pipelines across cross-functional teams, reducing build complexity and improving deployment consistency.
• Streamlined Datadog logging and metrics by reducing noise and unnecessary ingestion, lowering costs and improving incident response signal-to-noise ratio.

Guideline — 2022 – 2023 DevOps Manager

• Enabled secure and efficient data movement for data engineering and science teams using BigQuery, Datastream, Fivetran, and Looker.
• Standardized Helm chart development with DRY principles, improving consistency and reliability across deployments.
• Modernized Kubernetes clusters by removing Dockershim and deprecated components to align with current standards.
• Partnered with development teams to evaluate and implement system improvements for performance and stability.
• Performed monolith database split to improve performance and reduce disaster recovery time.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines across GoCD, Bamboo, and CircleCI platforms.
• Established Terraform as foundation for Infrastructure-as-Code across GCP.
• Centralized and standardized monitoring and logging tooling across environments.

Brace — 2021 – 2022 Senior DevOps Engineer

• Built and optimized Docker and Kubernetes configurations for new and existing applications.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts end-to-end with Terraform, developing reusable modules.
• Architected ETL processes and data management improvements for engineering teams.
• Partnered with CISO to strengthen security posture, meeting and exceeding SOC2 requirements.
• Upgraded EKS clusters and improved cluster lifecycle management.

CultureIQ — 2020 – 2021 Lead DevOps Engineer

• Managed infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, including automated pipelines with approval gates.
• Decomposed multi-language monolith into containerized multi-service architecture on Fargate and Kubernetes.
• Developed centralized logging and monitoring strategy using Datadog, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
• Drove container adoption across full development lifecycle, improving velocity and reliability.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Drone and Jsonnet to maintain DRY configurations and reduce duplication.
• Collaborated with development team to design RESTful API replacing legacy architecture.
• Ensured all infrastructure processes exceeded SOC2 and GDPR compliance standards.

Ticket Evolution — 2018 – 2020 Lead DevOps Engineer

• Migrated entire infrastructure from bare metal datacenter to containerized Kubernetes in AWS with minimal downtime, improving performance 5x.
• Built and maintained large autoscaling Kubernetes clusters serving $20B API marketplace at 200+ req/sec.
• Managed Kubernetes deployments with Helm, creating and maintaining charts for services.
• Built continuous deployment system enabling developers to deploy, monitor, and rollback releases via Slack and CLI.
• Migrated large PostgreSQL database from standalone to Aurora RDS using DMS with minimal downtime.
• Leveraged Kong as ingress controller for granular traffic routing to Kubernetes services, removing bottlenecks without code changes.
• Implemented full-stack observability using Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus, Datadog, and CloudWatch.

CoachCare — 2016 – 2018 Lead DevOps Engineer

• Built scalable infrastructure supporting 100k active users across hybrid Node.js and PHP platform.
• Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure with reserved instance planning to reduce costs.
• Migrated PostgreSQL to RDS and implemented RabbitMQ and Redis for queuing and token storage.
• Built CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI with monitoring via NewRelic and Sumo Logic.
• Initiated containerized infrastructure migration using Kubernetes and Docker.

Reliant Security — 2009 – 2016 Director of DevOps

Joined as one of first employees, growing from sole contributor to technical leader responsible for infrastructure as platform scaled from startup to enterprise.

• Scaled infrastructure to manage over 12,000 production nodes.
• Technical lead for designing and deploying Reliant’s Debian-based security and virtualization platform.
• Onboarded and mentored engineers across multiple levels, growing team alongside platform.
• Designed and implemented PCI-compliant AWS environments using private VPCs.
• Assisted clients with PCI and SOX audits and developed remediation plans.
• Consolidated virtualization using KVM/QEMU, OpenVZ, and VMware to reduce datacenter footprint.

Earlier Experience

Qwikker — 2008 — Senior Systems Administrator

• Designed infrastructure managing 20,000+ Mobile Content Servers. Led datacenter migration and established Follow-the-Sun support model for 24x7x365 coverage.

WebMD — 2007 - 2008 — Systems Engineer

• Lead administrator for Medscape Mail (30,000+ doctors). Migrated from Sun Solaris to distributed RHEL platform and implemented MySQL Cluster for high availability.

IGXGlobal — 2005 – 2007 — Systems Security Engineer

• Lead datacenter administrator. Redesigned web server infrastructure for high availability and implemented monitoring with Nagios. Managed security infrastructure including firewalls and SSL VPN.

Certifications

CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional LPIC – Linux Professional Institute Certification