DevOps and platform engineer specializing in resilient, secure, cloud-native infrastructure for mission-critical systems. Across professional roles and, more recently, self-directed work, I design the automation and architecture that let teams ship safely and often. Recent work includes production-grade systems software in Rust and a fully self-hosted, observable deployment pipeline. Depth across the Kubernetes ecosystem, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
Areas of expertise
- Languages: Rust, Go, Python, Bash
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Hybrid Cloud, Linux, Networking
- Orchestration & IaC: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, CI/CD, GitOps
- Architecture & Practices: Cloud-Native Architecture, High-Availability & DR, Observability, DevSecOps, Test Automation
Projects
- Designed and built a read-only FUSE filesystem in Rust (multi-crate workspace) that presents a re-tagged, reorganized music library without modifying or duplicating a single byte of the original audio.
- Drove correctness with a deep automated-testing stack: property and fuzz testing of all five format parsers, mutation testing to prove the suite actually kills bugs, and a purpose-built second FUSE filesystem (latencyfs) that injects controlled backing-store latency to exercise the serve path under slow disks and NFS.
- Engineered the release pipeline for portable distribution: static cross-compiled musl and glibc binaries across x86_64 and aarch64 with a glibc 2.17 floor, plus a serve path hardened with a blocking-read worker pool and optional kernel FUSE passthrough.
- Self-hosted static site shipped as an immutable FROM scratch container image, deployed by registry pull with image-tag rollbacks.
- Enforce a hard per-page budget in CI (under 14.5 KB brotli, home under 10 KB) so every page fits within the initial TCP congestion window, with per-page font subsetting, hash-based CSP, and link and HTML validation as gates.
- Full server-side observability with zero client-side tracking: Caddy logs to Vector to VictoriaMetrics, a Perses dashboard, and vmalert and ntfy alerting.
Experience
Career Break: Family Caregiving
October 2020 – Present
- Stepped away from full-time work as primary caregiver for my mother through her cancer treatment and passing, and have since cared for my grandmother with Alzheimer's while preparing to return to industry.
- Stayed hands-on throughout via self-directed engineering and a production homelab (see Projects above).
Senior Cloud Engineer — BillGO Inc.
July 2020 – September 2020 · Fort Collins, CO
- Recruited to lead the company's cloud-native strategy; developed a comprehensive proposal and proof-of-concept for migrating monolithic services to a containerized EKS platform.
- Authored the technical roadmap for adopting Kubernetes, including detailed plans for containerization, IaC implementation with Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline design.
Senior Engineer, DevOps & Site Reliability
March 2018 – December 2019
Delivered expert-level engineering services across both full-time and contract engagements, focusing on Kubernetes adoption, immutable infrastructure, and SRE principles.
Charter Communications — DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 & Mar 2018 – Jun 2018 · Denver, CO
- Recruited for multiple engagements to lead critical infrastructure projects, including designing a fully immutable, high-availability platform on AWS for stateful services like MongoDB and Vault.
- Developed and scaled Kubernetes CD solutions using Jenkins and Helm, enabling developer teams to deploy services independently and reliably.
- Mentored junior engineers in cloud-native best practices, accelerating their professional development and improving team-wide consistency.
PromonTech LLC — Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer (Full-Time Employee)
Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 · Denver, CO
- Promoted from SRE to DevOps Engineer in recognition of key contributions to the company's platform strategy and technical leadership.
- Championed the adoption of cloud-native technologies, prototyping a Kubernetes-based platform to demonstrate significant improvements in deployment speed and resilience.
- Eliminated risk of error by automating the previously manual process used for schema migrations of the central CQRS eventstore and the regeneration of projected tables.
- Reduced build and test wait times by up to 90% by architecting and implementing an autoscaling Jenkins deployment sensitive to both queue depth and instance congestion.
Linux System Administrator and Migration Specialist — InMotion Hosting
November 2016 – March 2018 · Denver, CO
- Engineered a suite of automation tools that slashed average customer migration wait times by 95%, reducing them from three weeks to same-day delivery.
- Developed tooling to automate the detection and resolution of complex DNS and email hosting issues to streamline support and reduce time to resolution for customer contacts.
- Engineered proactive monitoring tools to automate the detection of resource contention and system faults in multi-tenant and clustered compute environments enabling resolution prior to SLA impact.