EXPERIENCE:
Founder & Principal Consultant
Stratus Studios, USA (Remote)
02/2025 - Present
Responsibilities:
- Stratus Studios is a consultancy offering technical leadership, architecture, and infrastructure management services
Key Accomplishments:
- Series A legal-tech company: Re-architected and deployed a multi-account AWS environment with Terraform-based infrastructure automation. Services and data live-migrated from previous hand-rolled account. Solution based on access control and production-data segregation requirements
- Late-stage financial/e-commerce technologies provider: Provided individual contributor resources to address a backlog of infrastructure automation and upgrade processes including, but not limited to, Kubernetes cluster versioning and upgrade management, network connectivity design and implementation, and monitoring/observability cost control
- Series A foundation model organization with enterprise deployment requirements: Guided organization through compliance requirements and tradeoffs, and implemented appropriate SOC2 visibility and controls. Designed and proposed on-prem deployment and update processes, and provided guidance on observability requirements with respect to support contracts for on-premises deployments. Managed GPU deployments and capacity acquisitions across multiple T1 and T2 providers
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Atelio (by FIS) (via acq. of Bond Financial Technologies), USA (Remote)
06/2021 - 02/2025
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the operation and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, and monitoring
- Oversaw and managed (player/coach methodology) the ongoing maintenance of Kubernetes, terraform, and cloud resources
- Owned organization-wide incident response plans and procedures. Primarily escalation point for all P1/P0 incidents
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers for effective management of projects with appropriate prioritization and communication
- Conduct research and comparative analysis of potential software vendors, and making build vs buy decisions
- Manage relationships and contracts with external software vendors (AWS, Fastly, Datadog, VGS, StrongDM, Vanta)
- Represented the Engineering organization at organization-wide leadership meetings during the post-acqusition period
- Cross-functional collaboration with product teams to deprecate redundent systems and duplicated functionality to reduce operational complexity.
- Collaborated with all product engineering teams during the Design Document/RFC phase to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of features and systems
- Worked with multiple internal teams on the design and development of a modern authentication and authorization (IAM) system for end-user facing functionality
- Reconciled existing infrastructure and tooling into appropriate Terraform projects
- Assisted and Supplemented Product Engineering with new feature development based on priorities and required timelines
Key Accomplishments:
- Architected and oversaw the consolidation of disjoint application microservices into a modern and best-practice application, reducing data workflow failures by ~95%
- Grew Platform organization to 4 full time engineers + 2 additional sub-teams (IT Management and Techincal Escalation Engineering)
- Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives with Product Engineering, Operations, and Leadership to bootstrap new organizations for IT Management and Technical Escalation Engineering responsibilities, enabling product engineering teams to focus on feature development by reducing interruptions by 90%
- Coordinated and managed the hiring process of 12 Senior+ Engineers to various product-engineer teams between February and April 2025
- Coordinated with internal and external security contacts on acquisition, management, and maintainance of SOC2 Type 2 certification
- Architected project plan, and provided ongoing implementation guidance on, an updated secure data encryption and storage across all application and data storage systems
- Introduced and educated the engineering team on the use of Datadog for observability and monitoring
- Coordinated with stakeholders across multiple organizations in the effort to transition all employees and systems to FIS-managed hardware and requirements
- Delivered technical overview presentations and Q&A sessions during due diligence of acqusition process
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering
Fullstory, Austin, TX, USA (Remote)
02/2019 - 06/2021
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the maintainance and functionality of internally-build depployment orchestration system
- Managed production and pre-production Kubernetes environments
- Managed day-to-day operational issues and scaling of our internal Prometheus-based monitoring systems
Key Accomplishments:
- Migrated node scheduling from job-based to attribute-based model, improving the utilization of compute resources and reducing scheduling delays
- Evangelized the introduction of a Service Mesh across the engineering organization
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering
Yonder (formally New Knowledge), Austin, Texas, USA
02/2019 - 02/2020
Responsibilities:
- Owned the prioritization and execution of all Devops, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability requirements
- Maintained multiple Kubernetes clusters for both production and staging workloads
- Worked with individual Product Engineering leads to reduce operational complexity and streamline our engineering process
- Actively worked to reduce existing overengineered solutions and improve engineering productivity
Key Accomplishments:
- Executed a Cloud Migration strategy to migrate all live stateless and stateful workloads from Azure to AWS without downtime
- Worked with product engineering to standardize and restructure web scraping infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead by ~95%
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Pixlee, Austin, Texas, USA
11/2018 - 02/2019
Responsibilities:
- Updated the development workflow of core applications to include modern and professional software engineering practices
- Designed and developed reproducable and automated developer environments based in a Kubernetes environment
- Identified and communicated fundamental issues in the existing configuration management, and developed a safe migration plan to correct the issues
- Identified and communicated issues in the current production infrastructure which negatively impact system cost, reliabilty, and operational insight
- Delivered a safe, long term plan to migrate to Kubernetes in order to reduce the infrastructure bloat, consolidate services, improve reliability, and ease operational burden
Staff Software Engineer
Cratejoy, Austin, Texas, USA
01/2018 - 10/2018
Responsibilities:
- Managed our production Kubernetes infrastructure, staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Interfaced with individual product teams in order to plan for upcoming deployment, monitoring, and tooling needs
- Migrated our central application deployments to team-specific automated deployments
- Developed internal services to aid in the ease of development of user facing products
Key Accomplishments:
- Architected and managed the development of the Cratejoy Custom Domain SSL feature (with Lets Encrypt)
Senior Software Engineer
Cratejoy, Austin, Texas, USA
02/2015 - 01/2018
Responsibilities:
- Formed and led our Site Reliability Engineering team in order to prioritize stability, reliability, performance, and ease of development
- Identify, investigate, and resolve platform-wide performance and reliability issues
- Developed and released a reliable internal Traffic Analysis system (with full grainularity), used throughout the company to make business critical decisions
- Developed and maintained features for the Merchant Tools section of the Cratejoy Platform
Key Accomplishments:
- Developed internal support for, and implemented, an Engineering On-Call rotation and emergency response playbook
- Led a migration of our internal infrastructure from Ansible managed machines to Kubernetes
- Designed, implemented, and rolled out PayPal support for all storefronts, which is used by 1000+ Merchants, and accounts for ~15% of platform purchase volume
- Received multiple internal awards, including company wide 'Impact of the Quarter' (Q4 2016) and 'Engineering Values' (Q1 2017)
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