Experience

SourceFuse August 2021 – Present

Architected “ARC” Open Source IaC, establishing the enterprise “Golden Path” for infrastructure management across the organization.
Engineered event-driven automation in C#/.NET, including a self-healing Lambda suite for RDS volume monitoring and CloudWatch alarm synchronization.
Built a custom Python-based RDS Recovery CLI to automate complex database restoration workflows for SRE teams.
Designed and deployed a ground-up AWS GovCloud environment for DoE clients, achieving 100% security compliance and passing federal audits.
Led a Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) initiative for HIPAA-compliant migrations, modernizing on-premise workloads to AWS RDS with zero downtime.
Developed a specialized C# Lambda for automated software distribution across EC2 fleets via resource tagging.
Created a custom Deployment CLI to orchestrate GitHub workflows and repository tags, automating production releases for 10+ global environments.

First American January 2021 – August 2021

Established DevOps standards and IaC best practices for the newly formed US East engineering division.
Re-engineered and modularized legacy Terraform codebases to facilitate seamless migrations to modernized cloud environments.
Developed Python automation to handle the lifecycle of legacy resources, reclaiming 10+ engineering hours per month.
Automated Azure Function release orchestration using Ansible and Azure DevOps to eliminate deployment drift.
Implemented automated cloud governance and resource tracking using Cloud Custodian.

ThreatConnect September 2019 – December 2020

Architected a production observability and monitoring stack on EKS using Terraform, Helm, and GitLab CI/CD.
Directed the migration to GitLab and redesigned CI/CD pipeline logic, resulting in a 35% reduction in total build times.
Transformed engineering operations by implementing Agile/Scrum methodologies and structured support-ticketing workflows.
Containerized legacy monolithic applications and optimized their dependency chains for cloud-native deployment.
Automated redundant manual system tasks by integrating scripted logic directly into GitLab-CI/CD pipelines.

OnSolve March 2015 – September 2019

Orchestrated automated releases for a fleet of 200+ servers across Azure and vSphere using Terraform and Octopus Deploy.
Designed and configured high-availability network topologies for Dev, Staging, and UAT environments.
Developed web server configuration and hardening scripts using Bash and PowerShell.
Spearheaded the initial adoption of Docker and container orchestration across all testing and production environments.
Managed enterprise Git repositories and CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and GitLab-CI.