Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Hybrid

• As the team scaled, I took on high-impact, undefined problems in scale, cost, security, and governance, acting as the de-facto SPOC for cloud costs and infrastructure security. Mentored 10+ new members into the team and directly managing a team of 4.
• I own the following domains end-to-end:
• 1. Scale & Reliability: Architected solutions to handle platform growth efficiently, planned outage mitigations, and executed migrations to support increasing scale.
• 2. Cost Optimization: Delivered over $300K yearly cost savings by optimizing Kubernetes node provisioning, reducing resource wastage, overhauling backup strategies and tracking emerging cost-saving opportunities.
• 3. Security & Compliance: Owned perimeter security by optimizing WAF usage, implemented AWS Control Tower for security-by-default, and deployed runtime security modules to catch threats earlier in the development cycle.
• 4. Governance & Risk Management: Established audit trails and querying for critical infra, separated lower environments into dedicated accounts to reduce production blast radius, and acted as cloud security lead across the organization.

Sep 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hybrid

• As the second hire and a founding member of the Platform team at PW, I defined the core infrastructure strategy, built critical platforms from zero to scale, and transitioned ownership as the team grew to 20+ platform engineers. I owned the following domains end-to-end:
• 1. Resilience & Business Continuity: Defined and implemented the company’s disaster recovery strategy with multi-region active-active architectures, meeting strict RTO/RPO targets.
• 2. Scale & Performance Engineering: Established performance engineering as a core discipline; built a Kubernetes-based capacity testing platform that enabled 3× scale while reducing infra spend by ~$30K/month.
• 3. Platform Reliability & Architecture Modernization: Led the move to a fully automated, infrastructure-as-code-driven platform. Also - Drove the transition from monolith to microservices, improving API gateways, observability, and integration readiness.
• 4. Mission-Critical Product Infrastructure: Architected infrastructure for large-scale live classes, enabling record-breaking concurrent student participation and extreme real-time messaging throughput.
• 5. Engineering Velocity & Ownership Culture: Rebuilt CI/CD and developer workflows to significantly reduce build times and costs, while scaling ownership across teams.