Professional Summary
Cloud and DevOps Specialist
Started in tech support at Mass Mutual with no formal background in software or infrastructure. Went through Google's IT Residency program and moved into Site Reliability Engineering there. Now the founding SRE hire at an early-stage startup, building out their production and staging infrastructure from scratch.
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure
Joined House-IQ as their first infrastructure hire, breaking ground on their backend AWS environment and owning it end to end.
Infrastructure and Platform Engineering
- Designed and built multi-account AWS infrastructure from scratch using Pulumi (Python), with layered project isolation for networking, identity, operations, and service deployment.
- Created a convention-driven service platform that auto-provisions IAM roles, container registries, secrets, and databases from a single service declaration, reducing per-service onboarding to minimal configuration.
- Built factory-based ECS orchestration connecting compute, database, and identity layers through shared naming contracts and validated configuration with resource tier presets.
CI/CD and Security
- Migrated multiple services from Lambda to ECS Fargate using a standardized factory pattern, establishing the deployment model for staging and production environments.
- Built cross-account release pipeline with OIDC federation, build-once-deploy-by-digest promotion, automated rollback, and composite GitHub Actions.
- Deployed AWS WAF with managed rule groups, tuned from count to block mode after traffic analysis. Implemented per-service IAM with zero-trust deploy roles — no wildcard permissions.
- Integrated Datadog observability with golden signals dashboards and auto-provisioned monitors per service.
DevSecOps Lead - DevTech
Applying SRE principles to lead a complete infrastructure transformation and modernization
99.95% uptime peak season
90% faster incident resolution
Infrastructure and Leadership
- Led enterprise cloud migration from hybrid AWS (ECS/EC2) to fully containerized Azure AKS, migrating business-critical CPA applications serving 700+ users with zero data loss.
- Designed and implemented end-to-end infrastructure across three Azure AKS environments (staging, production, monitoring) using Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Built a comprehensive Kubernetes deployment framework with standardized manifests for service configuration management.
- Established DevSecOps practices implementing CI/CD pipelines, security scanning, and automated deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Terraform.
Observability and Reliability
- Built enterprise-grade monitoring infrastructure using Thanos and Grafana, achieving a 90% reduction in incident resolution time (from days to <3 hours).
- Delivered 99.95% uptime during peak tax season with only 45 minutes total downtime across 4 months, supporting mission-critical financial applications.
- Created a comprehensive observability platform providing the first-ever complete visibility into application performance and business metrics.
Technology Translation
- Successfully adapted Google internal practices (Borg → Kubernetes, RAPID → GitHub Actions, Automon → Prometheus/Grafana).
- Migrated and operationalized real-time data pipeline architecture using Debezium CDC, Redpanda Kafka, and MongoDB, implementing full observability and monitoring across the streaming infrastructure.
Career Break
Left Google as part of their January 2023 layoffs. Took a year to travel, attend a few hackathons, and work on personal projects before returning to full-time work.
Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Logging
Maintained reliability and performance for Google Cloud Platform's distributed logging infrastructure
99.95% SLA Cloud Logging
Exabyte scale global infrastructure
Platform Operations
- Orchestrated operations for Google's global Cloud Logging infrastructure, ensuring continuous availability for millions of GCP customers.
- Optimized SLO compliance through strategic alert tuning and efficient incident response, maintaining 99.95% SLO compliance.
- Led critical incident response, including on-call rotations, implementing mitigation strategies, and conducting comprehensive post-mortems.
System Reliability
- Managed large-scale deployments using Google's RAPID workflow, troubleshooting complex distributed system issues across global infrastructure.
- Utilized Borg cluster management to scale Cloud Logs microservices dynamically, optimizing resource allocation across thousands of machines.
- Collaborated with development teams to communicate technical challenges and implement long-term reliability improvements.
Process Improvement
- Created standardization templates for monitoring dashboard migrations, enabling teams to meet compliance requirements while maintaining operational visibility.
- Modernized critical infrastructure by migrating batch processes to unified frameworks, improving maintainability and operational efficiency.
- Established testing protocols for service integrations, documenting dependencies, and creating simulation environments for complex distributed systems.
IT Resident - Corporate Engineering Support
Google's structured program for developing technical talent, with a fixed 2-year term leading to internal career advancement
100K+ machines global fleet
Enterprise Fleet Management
- Supported Google's global infrastructure of 100,000+ Linux, macOS, and Windows machines, maintaining enterprise productivity systems.
- Contributed to Armada fleet management system, automating deployment processes and improving operational efficiency.
Development and Automation
- Created automation tooling in Golang to eliminate manual configuration steps in deployment processes, gaining hands-on programming experience while reducing operational overhead.
- Created Bash automation solutions for existing manual processes, reducing operational overhead and human error.