About

Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 15+ years building and operating infrastructure. I've gone from sole sysadmin for 3,000 users to leading platform teams managing 100K+ resources across AWS.

Experience

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Data Security SaaS / Melbourne, FL

2024 — Present
  • Decomposed monolithic Terraform into reusable modules, reducing plan time by 60%
  • Integrated AI tooling with readonly AWS access for automated infrastructure diagnostics, reducing mean time to root cause by 75% during production incidents
  • Architected modular platform provisioning ~20K resources per deployment across 6 environments (100K+ total)

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Data Security SaaS / Melbourne, FL

2022 — 2024
  • Compressed deployment cycles from 3 days to under 30 minutes across 6 production environments
  • Drove AWS cost optimization through environment consolidation and managed service migration
  • Deployed AWS Control Tower + AFT — self-service account vending via merge requests
  • Scaled IaC adoption from zero to 25+ engineers authoring Terraform
  • Designed AMI lifecycle using EC2 Image Builder with Inspector scanning and CIS hardening, producing SOC 2 compliant golden images
  • Engineered Terraform-driven multi-region failover — sub-10-minute cutover during regional outages

Senior DevOps Engineer

Data Security SaaS / Melbourne, FL

2021 — 2022
  • Built multi-region infrastructure for the production platform
  • Contributed upstream fix to Terraform AWS Provider (PR #24685, merged same-day)
  • Built Go-based on-call integration linking alerts to incidents and tickets automatically

DevOps Manager / SRE Architect

Robotics Logistics / Orlando, FL

2019 — 2021
  • Created full production replica runnable on a single laptop, eliminating $1MM/year in cloud dev costs
  • Designed and delivered air-gapped on-premise appliance sold as turnkey product to enterprise clients
  • Deployed monitoring stack reducing P95 API latency by 35%

Full Stack Engineer

Web Agency / New York, NY

2018 — 2019
  • Diagnosed and fixed 25-second checkout bottleneck for global e-commerce client — reduced to under 1 second

Full Stack Engineer

Major E-Commerce Retailer / New York, NY

2017 — 2018
  • Introduced Docker dev environments and TypeScript testing on one of the largest US e-commerce platforms

Systems Administrator

Public School District / New York, NY

2008 — 2015
  • Sole IT admin for two schools — 3,000+ users, 1,500+ devices
  • Built PXE/WDS imaging automation — full lab provisioning in 15 minutes

Skills

Cloud & AWS

EC2S3RDSLambdaECSControl TowerOrganizationsCloudFrontWAFRoute 53IAMVPCCloudWatchGuardDuty

IaC & Automation

TerraformAnsiblePackerDockerCheckov

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsCodePipeline

Languages

GoPythonTypeScriptBashRuby

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLElasticsearchRedis

Observability

GrafanaPrometheusELK StackCloudWatchPagerDuty

Certifications & Open Source

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect — Associate

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Cisco CCNA

CompTIA A+

Open Source

Terraform AWS Provider — upstream contributor (PR #24685)

Education

B.S. Computer Information Systems — DeVry University, New York

Additional CS Coursework — Queens College, New York