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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript, C#, SQL, Bash
- Cloud: AWS (Solutions Architect Associate), Azure
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Terraform, Karpenter, Helm
- Observability: Datadog
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps