Sep 2020 – Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Architected and maintained a customer-facing CLI tool to automate upgrades and installations across RPM-based and Kubernetes platforms, integrating Terraform workflows and system health pre-checks.
• Designed and automated air-gapped deployment pipelines, bundling RPMs and container images into portable artifacts for secure YUM repo creation and private registry distribution.
• Built dynamic QA pipelines with branch-selectable image testing, ephemeral test environments, and automated deployments leveraging Ansible, Terraform, and Vault.
• Spearheaded migration of 50+ global hosted customers from monolithic CentOS to fully containerized AWS EKS clusters, ensuring seamless transition with infrastructure-as-code and robust observability.
• Modernized CI/CD processes by transitioning from RPM builds to container-native pipelines, including multi-architecture (x86_64 & ARM) builds and automated ARM build agents in AWS.
• Developed self-service developer environments using Jenkins, enabling one-click provisioning, lifecycle management, and secure secret injection via Vault.
• Sole owner of disaster recovery automation for Kubernetes clusters, orchestrating nightly PVC snapshots, cross-cluster restorations, and full DR workflows tested biannually to meet SOC2 1-hour recovery SLAs.
• Managed AWS environments across production, development, and sandbox accounts; implemented cost control through tagging, automated policies, and monthly audits to minimize cloud spend.
• Acted as embedded DevOps engineer within agile teams, enhancing build and release pipelines to support rapid feature delivery and operational reliability.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs · Beaverton, Oregon

• Designed and deployed multi-cluster Kafka infrastructure on AWS using Kubernetes, Docker, and Ansible, supporting high-throughput streaming workloads.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Shell, Groovy) to automate provisioning, deployment, and versioned rollouts of Kafka clusters across four environments.
• Built a centralized observability platform with SignalFX and Prometheus, codifying monitoring as infrastructure with Terraform for scalable and version-controlled deployments.
• Automated Docker image versioning and GitOps-driven Kubernetes rollouts, accelerating deployment cycles and ensuring consistent environment parity.
• Led enablement initiatives across platform teams, standardizing monitoring best practices and enhancing operational visibility.

Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Jan 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Redesigned and currently maintain website. Customized HTML, CSS and PHP to achieve the clients desired result. Receives over 3000 visitors a month.