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— Projects

01
nanokube
GoKubernetesDocker

a fully functional kubernetes in a single binary.

02
scaffoldly
TypeScriptLambdaDockerGitHub

deploy anything to AWS Lambda in minutes.

03
saml-to
TypeScriptSAMLAWS IAMGitHub

developer-friendly SAML SSO — assume AWS IAM roles in GitHub Actions.

04
rowdy
TypeScriptNodeServerless

server-less events router.

05
cloudrx
TypeScriptNodeDynamoDB

rxjs extensions built for cloud persistence.

06
libetcd
GoetcdSDK

a developer-friendly sdk for running embedded etcd.

07
daemonize
GoUnixCobra

unix daemon lifecycle (start/stop/status/reload) for any cobra command via re-exec.

08
setcd-io
TypeScriptDynamoDBServerless

a ground-up rewrite of etcd in node using connectrpc — designed for serverless.

09
installable-sh
GoDocker

fetch and install from urls in a minimal docker image.

— Skills

Cloud / Edge
ServerlessLambdaWorkersEC2ECSEKSAzureAKSELBVPCCloudFrontCloudflareFastly
Containers / Orchestration
DockerPodmanContainerdrunckubeletKubernetesCRDsOperatorsCluster APIArgoCDGitOps
IaC / Git
TerraformCrossplaneGitHubGitLab
Linux
UbuntuAlpineCoreOSCentOS
Runtime / Observability
Linux internalssysdigPrometheusMetrics
Data + AI
S3DynamoDBKinesisPostgreSQLMySQLSparkAWS EMRHugging FaceOllama
Backend
RustTypeScriptGoNodeJavaSpringJPAPythonDjango DRFFlaskC/C++Bash
Frontend
Next.jsReactReact NativeAngularBootstrapMaterialTailwindHTML5CSS
Security
AWS IAMKMSSecretsAzure KeyVaultOAuthOIDCSAMLSOC2HIPAA

— Writings and Talks

dev.to2024-11-26

Deploy Hugging Face Models to AWS Lambda in 3 steps

Ever wanted to deploy a Hugging Face model to AWS Lambda but got stuck with container builds, cold starts, and model caching? Here's how to do it in under 5 minutes using Scaffoldly.

Collective Health Engineering2016-04-28

Development and Deployment of AWS Lambda Functions

Introducing a 'DevOps API' on AWS Lambda + API Gateway — using Apex to instrument deployment and build a full SDLC around Lambda functions.

Spark + AI Summit 2018 · Talk

HIPAA Compliant Deployment of Apache Spark on AWS for Healthcare

repowayback · 2023-01-08 snapshot

collectivehealth/terraform-emr-spark-example

Terraform project configuring a secure, HIPAA-compliant Spark cluster on Amazon EMR — with Zeppelin, Ganglia, AES-256 at rest, LUKS, and TLS in-flight.

— Career History

v7Ybor.ai (Ybor Technology, LLC) — Remote · NYC

v7.0.02023-04 — presentcurrent

Staff Platform and Cloud Engineer

Added
  • —Kubernetes Operators in Rust automating AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GitHub.
  • —ArgoCD + Crossplane for declarative configuration and drift remediation.
  • —Automation across 20+ GitHub organizations and 75+ multi-cloud clusters with a 4-person team.
  • —Upstream Kubernetes contributor — merged client-go PRs (#136824, #137066); 300+ public PRs authored.

v6Scaffoldly — Remote

v6.0.02020-06 — presentcurrent

Founder, Lead Contributor

Added
  • —Foundational open-source tooling to deploy applications into AWS Lambda.
  • —SAML.to — a developer-friendly alternative to JumpCloud and AWS SSO.
  • —Serverless Kubernetes (in development).

v5Monad — Remote

v5.0.02022-03 — 2023-04

Lead Platform Cloud Engineer

Added
  • —AWS, Kubernetes, and serverless big-data infrastructure.
  • —Code pipelines for development, staging, production, and on-premise installs.
Changed
  • —Backend reliability, scalability, and observability across the platform.

v4ROMBOT — SF Bay Area · Cape Town · Shenzhen

v4.0.02019-04 — 2021-06

Chief Technology Officer

Added
  • —Built and led the full technical org for a hardware + software product — cloud, serverless, and event-driven backends; web and mobile frontends; firmware in C; and ML infrastructure.
  • —Java, Django, and NodeJS APIs; Angular, React, and React Native apps.
  • —Architecture, infrastructure, and deploy pipelines from scratch.
  • —Hired, mentored, and led distributed engineering teams across Cape Town, San Francisco, and Shenzhen.

v3Collective Health — San Francisco

v3.2.02017-07 — 2019-04

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Added
  • —Presto and Spark clusters on Amazon EMR + Terraform with zero-downtime deploys.
  • —HIPAA-compliant AWS IAM cloud security posture.
Changed
  • —Rebuilt container platform (Fleet-orchestrated) in Terraform.
  • —Migrated HAProxy edge servers to highly-available with automatic failover.
  • —Migrated PostgreSQL databases to RDS.
v3.1.02016-04 — 2017-07

Senior DevOps Engineer

Added
  • —Docker container deploys for log ingestion and system metrics.
  • —VPN integrations and IBM MQ integrations with multiple partners.
  • —TLS/SSL for multi-service internal and external traffic.
  • —On-call and incident-response process from scratch.
  • —Terraform + Terraform remote state across the platform.
Changed
  • —PostgreSQL migration: new hardware, replicas, daily backups, incremental replication, and failover.
v3.0.02015-06 — 2016-04

DevOps Engineer

v2Boku — San Francisco

v2.0.02010-10 — 2015-01

Database & Software Engineer

Added
  • —Centralized auth server + shared library adopted across 75 Java applications — persisted application failover through DB maintenance, including usernames and securely stored passwords.
  • —ETL applications for long-term data in alternative data stores.
  • —Java batch-archival app moving cold data off the transactional cluster.
  • —Proof-of-concepts for Clustrix and Percona XtraDB Cluster.
  • —Tungsten Replicator + multi-master replication for multi-datacenter scale-out.
  • —Led team integrating a distributed caching layer into production apps.
Changed
  • —Maintained replicated MySQL supporting global idempotent transaction processing.

v1Comcast — San Francisco

v1.0.02008-06 — 2010-09

Software Engineer

Added
  • —Java Enhanced TV (ETV) User Agent delivering interactive content on Cisco set-top boxes.
  • —EBIF standards and specification compliance (CableLabs).
  • —Unit tests and engineering documentation for new + existing features.
Changed
  • —Assisted migration of the ETV User Agent from C to Java.

v0

v0.1.02003 — 2008

Purdue University — West Lafayette, IN

B.S. Computer Science + Management

Added
  • —Computer science fundamentals and management coursework.
v0.0.32007-05 — 2007-08

Motorola — Chicago Area

Software Engineering Intern