Founder & Platform Engineer

• Built and launched Matchstaq, a public-beta multi-tenant SaaS platform; own infrastructure, observability, and release operations across initial DigitalOcean Kubernetes deployments and subsequent AWS services.
• Automated deployment and infrastructure workflows with OpenTofu, Helm, and GitHub Actions; operated PostgreSQL, Redis/BullMQ background workers, authentication, object storage, and environment-specific configuration.
• Deployed AWS Lambda and approximately 10 Cloudflare Workers for intermittent workloads; built internally used FastAPI/RAG services and an approval-gated application-provisioning control plane.

Senior TechOps Engineer

• Evaluated Argo CD against Flux and established ApplicationSet/Helm GitOps delivery standards across three teams; helped reduce environment promotion from days to ~1 hour by replacing manual configuration review and cross-team handoffs with orchestrated workflows and drift reconciliation.
• Designed the net-new umbrella Helm architecture for ~35 microservices, later adopted as the reference model for additional charts across the 50+ service platform; reviewed implementations and coached engineers on configuration and release conventions.
• Modernized New Relic alerting with reusable Terraform modules and HCP Terraform remote state/execution; reduced bulk updates to ~60 alerts from ~2 days to minutes and used Terraform moved blocks in a production refactor.
• Built NerdGraph/tag-driven alert tuning so designated observability administrators could configure supported parameters in New Relic while Terraform managed 360+ production conditions across 60+ services; expanded instrumentation from under 25% to nearly 90% in six months.
• Designed Vault policy/access structures and Vault Secrets Operator integration for Helm-managed Kubernetes workloads, replacing manual JSON secret handoffs; implemented ingress/load-balancing and mTLS configuration for customer deployment environments.
• Engineered GitHub Actions container pipelines for builds, versioning, Snyk scanning, Cosign signing, and artifact promotion via GHCR, ECR, and Harbor; reviewed vulnerability findings and coordinated or performed remediation.
• Resolved cascading HTTP 503 errors from mismatched Java/Spring and Istio timeouts; bounded retries, tuned Envoy connection pools, standardized Helm defaults, and verified recovery through New Relic and JMeter.
• Participated in 30+ production incidents and personally led approximately five through investigation, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and operational follow-up.
• Built automated JMeter, smoke, integration, and health checks for releases across four environments, supporting approximately 10 deployments per week.
• Built ilotteryctl, a Go CLI used by three senior engineers for deployment-version inspection, environment comparison, service restarts, and operational troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Argo CD, Vault, and New Relic.
• Provided technical mentoring, reviews, and implementation guidance to 8 DevOps engineers, 7 application developers, an architect, and 2 managers adopting Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps.

TechOps Engineer

• Helped provision and operate a ~15-cluster hybrid Kubernetes estate, including 10+ EKS Anywhere clusters across four VMware/vSphere datacenters and Amazon EKS; supported dedicated on-premises customer clusters and shared multi-tenant cloud deployments.
• Performed EKS Anywhere management- and workload-cluster recovery procedures, external etcd backups, and Velero backup/recovery operations; participated in AWS FIS availability-zone failure simulations for production resilience testing.
• Implemented production HPA/VPA policies and tuned requests, limits, and scaling behavior to reduce resource-related stability problems; supported cluster upgrades, CSI storage, ingress, and core Kubernetes troubleshooting.
• Administered Ubuntu hosts, patching, hardening, internal APT repositories, and Debian packages; helped establish early Argo CD repository/ApplicationSet patterns.

Enterprise Technical Support Engineer

• Served as Linux escalation specialist for enterprise production problems involving APIs, identity, VPN, SMTP, operating systems, and application networking.
• Built ShareFile CLI/TUI and browser support tools, Python/Bash diagnostics, and 30+ Splunk dashboards to standardize recurring investigations.
• Selected as a Knowledge-Centered Services Coach and authored or contributed to 100+ internal and public troubleshooting articles.

Linux System Administrator / Solution Architect

• Designed and operated AWS-hosted Linux/Wazuh/Elasticsearch monitoring using EC2, VPC networking, security groups, IAM, and Route 53; separated public, infrastructure, and business workloads into distinct subnets.
• Built Linux GIS/Jupyter infrastructure with RBAC-controlled access and persistent geospatial data services; implemented Lambda functions for intermittent workloads.

B.S. in Philosophy