About

Platform engineer with nearly two decades of experience building and operating production systems, spanning identity & access management, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Leads platform initiatives at the intersection of infrastructure automation, observability, and AI-powered tooling, directly shaping how engineering organizations build and ship software.

Experience

Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering October 2023 - Present
  • Led zero-to-one infrastructure standup for a new prediction markets product, provisioning isolated AWS accounts, EKS clusters, and a PrivateLink architecture for private cross-platform API connectivity; delivered ahead of schedule
  • Built AI-powered capabilities into an internal platform tool using AWS Bedrock and the Strands Agent SDK, including automated Terraform PR review, intelligent support routing, and full observability of AI systems; advanced to semi-finals at AWS re:Invent
  • Lead IC on an ongoing FinOps showback initiative; built automated cost transparency reporting that surfaces AWS and Datadog spend trends to engineering teams weekly, establishing a foundation for cost ownership across the organization
  • Stabilized Kubernetes cluster operations during peak traffic windows by diagnosing Karpenter node consolidation as the root cause of instability and implementing disruption budgets, improving reliability without sacrificing cost efficiency
  • Designed and executed a phased ingress infrastructure migration with gradual traffic shifting and safe rollback, reducing error rates, cutting running costs, and unlocking new routing capabilities for service teams
  • Managed AWS account security primitives across 100+ accounts using IaC-driven Service Control Policies; led a compliance-driven data pipeline rewrite from Python to Go, cutting memory usage from gigabytes to under 100MB

rearc

Boutique cloud engineering and devops consulting

Lead Cloud Engineer August 2021 - October 2023
  • Designed and delivered an end-to-end SaaS authentication and authorization system using OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
  • Implemented continuous delivery pipelines for infrastructure as code and migrated customers to trunk-based development
  • Designed and delivered an application architecture to re-platform a traditional on-premise application to EKS
  • Implemented a robust test orchestration platform using AWS Step Functions
  • Mentored customer engineers and internal engineers

Pacific Medical Data Solutions

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

Director of IT & Engineering May 2017 - August 2021
  • Designed, developed, and launched a new SaaS product in the healthcare provider compensation space
  • Implemented continuous deployment pipeline using Azure Pipelines, Helm, and Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Grew software engineering team from 1 to 5, defined SDLC, and maintained product roadmap

IDMWorks

Identity & Access Management Consulting

IAM Engineer September 2016 - May 2017
  • Provided SailPoint Identity IQ implementation using Java, Beanshell, and SQL
  • Developed custom connector logic for client-specific integrations

Hosting.com

Managed services and hosting provider

Technical Lead / Software Engineer July 2014 - September 2016
  • Designed and developed managed services products for infrastructure management
  • Mentored team members in web services, automated testing, and design patterns
  • Built customer portal features for monitoring, notifications, and firewall management

Raymond James & Associates

Security Developer / Team Lead May 2007 - July 2014
  • Led IAM Services team to deliver in-house user provisioning system, increasing accuracy from 20% to 95%
  • Designed automated user provisioning based on HR events
  • Provided 24x7 on-call support for custom and COTS IAM systems

Skills