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— Projects

— Skills

Cloud / Edge
ServerlessLambdaWorkersEC2ECSEKSAKSELBVPCCloudFrontCloudflareFastly
Containers / Orchestration
DockerPodmanContainerdKubernetesCRDsOperatorsArgoCD
IaC / Git
TerraformCrossplaneGitHubGitLab
Linux
UbuntuAlpineCoreOSCentOS
Data + AI
S3DynamoDBKinesisPostgreSQLMySQLSparkAWS EMRHugging FaceOllama
Backend
NodeTypeScriptRustGoPythonDjango DRFFlaskJavaSpringJPA
Frontend
Next.jsReactReact NativeAngularBootstrapMaterialTailwindHTML5CSS
Security
AWS IAMKMSSecretsAzure KeyVaultOAuthOIDCSAMLSOC2HIPAA

— Writings and Talks

— Career Changelog

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+ clusters with a 4-person team.

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
  • Java, Django, and NodeJS APIs; Angular, React, and mobile apps.
  • Architecture, infrastructure, and deploy pipelines from scratch.
  • Hired and led engineering teams in Cape Town and San Francisco.

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