Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
I am a Platform and Infrastructure Leader with over a decade of experience building the foundational systems that power modern engineering organizations. I specialize in the "hard" side of infrastructure - bridging the gap between platform requirements and scalable, cloud-native architecture. My approach treats infrastructure as a product, focusing on reducing developer friction and ensuring that technology serves as a catalyst for business growth rather than a bottleneck. Core Areas of Expertise: * AI-Augmented Engineering: I leverage AI Agents and LLMs to automate complex architectural workflows - from generating optimized IaC to building intelligent "copilots" for SRE teams. By integrating AI agents into the DevOps loop, I accelerate the design of resilient systems and provide engineers with automated, context-aware architectural guidance. * Platform Engineering & GitOps: I architect self-service developer platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Crossplane, moving organizations toward a mature "Everything-as-Code" model. * Operational Excellence & FinOps: Driven by SRE principles, I have a proven track record of maintaining 99.9% uptime while aggressively optimizing cloud spend and resource allocation in data-intensive environments. * Strategic Leadership: Adept at driving DevOps transformation, fostering a culture of automation, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, distributed systems at scale. Technical Ecosystem: * Cloud & Orchestration: AWS/GCP/Azure, Nvidia DGX, Kubernetes. * IaC & Automation: Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane, GitHub/GitLab. * Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog. I thrive on solving complex architectural challenges and leading high-performing teams.
• Transitioned to a GitOps workflow, enhancing deployment reliability and availability. • Introduced cloud native environment promotion process with Kargo, enhancing deployments consistency. • Revamped CI/CD infrastructure, increasing deployment frequency, security, and enabling faster feature delivery. • Improved AWS and Kubernetes cluster management with Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD, enhancing deployment efficiency and reliability. • Implemented a comprehencive observability, improving infrastructure and applications visibility. • Provisioned Nvidia DGX cluster providing ML/AI enginners with cost-effective access to preconfigured environments.
• Led infrastructure team to ensure high platform uptime and operational efficiency. • Designed core infrastructure migration, reducing costs and improving system stability. • Redesigned monitoring systems, reducing false alerts and increasing observability.
• Built foundation infrastructure for a new AI powered datacenter setup. • Automated on-premises infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes cluster setup to streamline operations. • Designed and implemented cloud-native CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery. • Contributed to the launch of a new DL1 AWS EC2 instance type.
• Mentored and guided DevOps/SRE teams • Led migrations to Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and microservice architecture • Implemented Infrastructure as Code best practices for cloud infrastructure design • Achieved performance improvements and cost optimization through CI/CD solutions
• Managed high-load web services with 40M+ daily hits and 200+ servers. • Implemented AWS cloud technologies for infrastructure enhancement. • Automated infrastructure components using Bash and Python scripting for efficiency. • Conducted performance testing to optimize system performance.
• Managed Linux systems and optimized infrastructure performance. • Automated processes with Bash and Python scripting to enhance systems reliability. • Streamlined deployment workflows to improve efficiency and productivity.