Denver Metropolitan Area
I've spent 20 years building infrastructure that doesn't fall over at 3am. Currently: Principal SRE at Talkdesk, building self-healing platforms. Previously: Scaled systems from startup to millions of users. Now taking on 1-2 fractional advisory clients. What I help with: → Kubernetes architecture that actually works in production → GPU/AI infrastructure that doesn't bankrupt you → FinOps — finding the $100k/year you're wasting on AWS → SRE team building and on-call sanity Certs: CKA, CCIE, Terraform Associate Stack: Go, Rust, K8s, Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD If you're a Series A-C startup spending >$50k/month on cloud and wondering why, let's talk. 📧 [email protected] 📍 Denver, CO / Remote
Architected Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions, reducing AWS resource provisioning time by 60% and cutting costs by 15%. • Deployed and managed Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for 50K daily users, achieving 99.99% uptime through automated scaling and Helm charts. • Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Jenkins, accelerating release cycles by 40% and minimizing manual interventions. • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, reducing incident resolution time by 20% for production services.
Engineered Dockerized microservices and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes, improving application scalability for 10M+ monthly active users. • Streamlined infrastructure automation using Ansible and Python scripts, cutting server configuration time by 30% across hybrid cloud environments. • Optimized AWS EC2 and S3 configurations, saving $50K annually through resource tagging and Spot Instance utilization. • Collaborated with development teams to integrate security best practices, reducing vulnerabilities by 25% via automated scanning tools.
Designed and maintained Cisco and Juniper-based networks, improving circuit turn-up efficiency by 25% using BGP and MPLS protocols. • Automated network monitoring with Python and SolarWinds, decreasing outage detection time by 15% for critical financial systems. • Led migration of on-premises infrastructure to Azure, supporting 5K users with 99.9% reliability during transition. • Earned CCIE certification, enhancing team expertise in network architecture and troubleshooting.