- Led rollout of Tailscale for internal access, building automation framework enabling ZeroTrust ACLs at scale
- Achieved full security approval with zero remediations while simplifying access for hundreds of engineers, reducing operational risk
- Drove adoption of Crossplane, enabling Kubernetes-native Infrastructure as Code that cut provisioning times from days to minutes
- Standardized workflows and automated resource creation, helping platform teams scale while empowering product teams to ship faster
- Spearheaded enablement of Atlantis, providing secure, auditable, self-service infrastructure deployment
- Accelerated delivery cycles and reduced dependency on platform engineering, improving autonomy and confidence across the organization
- Mentor engineers to scale impact, bringing clarity to complex initiatives and consistently delivering infrastructure that makes teams more effective
Kubernetes
Crossplane
Tailscale
ZeroTrust
Atlantis
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
- Lead the SRE team to securely scale internal Kubernetes platform across multiple clusters using GCP, GKE, Terraform, and Atlantis
- Pioneered migration from GCP Memorystore to Redis Enterprise, eliminating frequent failures and achieving 100% uptime over one year
- Implemented Kubernetes policy enforcement using Kyverno across all clusters, ensuring consistent security and compliance standards
- Developed Vault proof-of-concept for short-lived credential management, addressing static credential sprawl
- Built and maintained observability stack using Grafana, Prometheus, and custom tooling for multi-cluster monitoring
Kubernetes
GCP
Terraform
Redis
PostgreSQL
Kafka
- Architected and built multi-cloud service platform using Golang microservices with Event Sourcing architecture
- Designed infrastructure leveraging Heroku, AWS, GCP, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Lambda, and Terraform for secure cloud resource provisioning
- Led DevOps initiatives for Salesforce IoT cloud, building tools and strategies to bridge public and private cloud environments
- Won peer-nominated company-wide "All Star Award" in 2019
- Recipient of "President's Award" for exceptional achievements in 2018
Go
AWS
GCP
Kafka
Terraform
- Led TechOps team monitoring, building, and scaling the Datadog SaaS platform serving millions of metrics
- Spearheaded infrastructure automation improvements, implementing comprehensive testing for Chef cookbooks and modularizing codebase
- Introduced Consul as cluster-wide Key/Value store and Service Discovery platform, prototyped and deployed enterprise-wide
- Pioneered Docker-based mini-PaaS using octohost project with chatops capabilities
- Designed stateless, auto-scaling infrastructure using AWS ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, Chef, and Packer
- Delivered internal and external technical presentations on infrastructure automation and containerization
Docker
Chef
AWS
Consul
Packer
- Built multi-million dollar corporate communications company from startup to 15-person agency
- Architected and managed infrastructure across AWS, Rackspace, Linode, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and Joyent
- Built and maintained infrastructure automation using Chef, Packer, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, and Capistrano
- Developed custom web applications using Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, PHP (WordPress, Laravel), HTML, and CSS
- Managed team of web designers and developers, mentoring on best practices and modern web technologies
- Handled full-stack operations: servers (Apache, nginx), databases (MySQL, Redis, Solr), and deployment pipelines
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Chef
Docker
AWS