Leading AWS infrastructure automation and standardization for mission-critical financial services. Building Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code patterns so teams can consistently provision and manage environments across dev, staging, and production. Defining observability standards and implementing Datadog-based dashboards, metrics, and alerting, including Zscaler integrations, to give teams clear visibility into their systems and reduce manual operational work.

Modernized Azure infrastructure using Terraform, enhancing scalability and maintainability. Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment times and increasing reliability. Implemented infrastructure security best practices, ensuring compliance and data protection. Supported IoT provisioning and configuration for packaging machinery, improving operational efficiency.

Led the migration of production services from EC2 to Kubernetes, improving scalability and resilience. Containerized legacy applications and rebuilt CI/CD pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency. Collaborated with developers to improve release velocity and reliability. Automated operational tasks and improved system observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Built and scaled Kafka platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability and performance. Introduced and standardized Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and SaltStack. Developed internal tooling and monitoring scripts in Python, Bash, and Perl. Deployed and maintained high-availability services across cloud regions. Led PoCs and migrations from physical to cloud infrastructure.

Maintained and administered Apache, MySQL, and Exim servers. Developed and deployed internal tools using Perl. Supported system-wide software deployments and data migrations. Racked, networked, and configured physical servers. Grew with the company from generalist to sysadmin as scale increased.

Attended Utah Valley University, providing a strong foundation for technical expertise and professional development in computer science and engineering.