Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Product Engineering | Applied AI | Rapid Prototyping | AI Adoption & Training
• Fractional CTO (InterviewSafe): Designed and built an enterprise video-conferencing platform for hiring teams with AI-powered identity verification and fraud detection capabilities.
• Fractional CTO (BuildSCORE): Engineering a RAG-based application to analyze and predict costs and timelines associated with commercial construction projects.
• Instructor: AI engineering and software development courses

Jan 2021 – Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• Built and scaled engineering organization from 0 to 65+ engineers (8 teams, 6 direct reports) across software, security, and infrastructure disciplines, delivering cloud and AI solutions for 8 federal agencies
• Led technical strategy and architecture for government compliance requirements including FedRAMP High, IL-4/5/6, SOC2, and zero-trust security frameworks on AWS

Jun 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs · Herndon, Virginia, United States

• Designed and implemented complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions for enterprise and government customers using infrastructure-as-code and code-first approach
• Provided technical guidance, training, and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery lifecycle, creating reusable artifacts and security patterns
• Acted as trusted advisor to customers on cloud security best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies including AI/ML workloads
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop effective migration and deployment strategies meeting stringent security and compliance requirements

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Leads SRE, Tools & DevOps teams responsible for the development, care, & feeding of critical infrastructure services supporting Apple's massive private cloud platform

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a senior advisor to the Founder/CEO, I provide subject matter expertise, technical guidance, and solutions architecture support in the areas cloud computing, infrastructure engineering, and information security.

Aug 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As Head of the DevOps consulting practice, I enabled our clients' infrastructure transformation initiatives by paving a clear, executable road-map to success via thought leadership, operational strategy, architecture/engineering expertise, and resource planning & development.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for technical leadership of KIXEYE’s Systems, Reliability, and DevOps teams:
• Reliability Engineering:
• Built and developed the KIXEYE Reliability Engineering team from 0 employees to a fully- staffed, highly-competent, 24x7 organization in less than 6 months, including hiring and training local and international teams.
• Architected and implemented advanced monitoring systems, developed and improved tools and automation, and designed and documented processes and procedures; the combined results led to significant improvements in the availability of KIXEYE services.

Oct 2009 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Sep 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided technical consulting and professional services to SolutionSet’s clients regarding the design, deployment, optimization, and ongoing support of complex web applications and their accompanying infrastructure.
• Led a team of Web Operations Engineers Responsible for monitoring, maintaining, securing, and ensuring uptime and performance of public-facing web applications for major clients like eBay, Chevron, Autodesk and others, in a 24x7 operations environment, including security monitoring and incident response.

Sep 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed a Team of Engineers in 24x7 Operations Center, Providing System Monitoring & Administration to over 150 High-Performance eCommerce Systems Generating Total Revenue in Excess of $2.4 Billion Annually

Aug 2002 – Aug 2007 · 5 yrs · Washington D.C. Metro Area & International

• As a cleared contractor to the US Government, I served in a variety of mission-critical eningeering roles for various three-letter-agencies. Projects included network engineering, system operations & architecture, data-center design & deployment, monitoring, information security/assurance, disaster recovery, & satellite/wireless communications.

Oct 1997 – Jul 2002 · 4 yrs 9 mos · worldwide