Professional Summary
Cloud and DevOps Specialist
Site Reliability Engineer with Google-scale training and hands-on implementation leadership. 8 years in technical operations, progressing from Google's IT Resident program to SRE, now designing greenfield AWS infrastructure for an early-stage AI platform. Expert in translating large-scale platform concepts (Borg, RAPID) into industry-standard implementations (Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ECS Fargate). Proven track record of end-to-end infrastructure ownership, cloud migrations, and building resilient systems that deliver measurable business impact.
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure
Designing and building AWS infrastructure from the ground up for an early-stage AI-powered real estate platform
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.
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.