Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

• Founder & Principal AI Systems Architect leading a boutique AI infrastructure consulting firm focused on production-grade LLM and agentic AI deployments.
• Designing and architecting secure cloud landing zones from scratch for organizations without existing cloud environments, and building scalable AI platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Core focus areas:
• Production LLM deployments (vLLM, LLM-D, Ollama)
• Kubernetes-native AI workloads (EKS, GKE, AKS)
• RAG pipelines with vector databases (Qdrant, ChromaDB)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for repeatable AI platforms
• Secure, cost-optimized, highly available AI systems
• Engagements span from cloud foundation design to full production AI rollout, ensuring scalability, observability, and enterprise-grade security.
• Chicago-based. Serving clients globally.

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

• Founder | Remoder Inc. - remoder.com | AI Infrastructure & Upskilling Academy
• As Founder of Remoder Inc., I lead a pioneering AI academy dedicated to re-modernizing engineers for the AI era. My role combines technical architecture, program design, and business leadership, with a focus on building scalable AI solutions and upskilling professionals worldwide.
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• 🚀 Designed and launched the Master AI Deployment Bootcamp, training DevOps & Cloud engineers to become AI-ready professionals.
• 🧠 Architected LLM and agentic AI systems using Ollama, LangChain, FastAPI, and vector databases (Qdrant, ChromaDB, etc).
• ☁️ Deployed cloud AI pipelines on Runpod, integrating with Docker for real-world labs.
• 📦 Built Dockerized AI applications (LLM APIs, RAG workflows, healthcare and finance AI agents) with secure Nginx-based access controls.
• 📊 Implemented monitoring, observability, and IaC to ensure scalable and reliable AI workloads.
• 🎓 Mentored and trained engineers on AI DevOps, MLOps, and LLMOps, bridging the gap between infrastructure and intelligence.
• 🤝 Forged strategic partnerships with universities and consulting firms to deliver corporate upskilling and collaborative AI projects.
• 🌍 Scaled Remoder into a global platform, providing cutting-edge education and consulting for enterprises preparing for the AI revolution.

Sep 2022 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mar 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Working as a Senior DevOps Consultant, my responsibility primarily is to bring the best of the DevOps related technologies and principles to our clients who migrate to Cloud OR improve existing Cloud Environments. Enabling Organizational transformation in DevOps with Automation, Scalability, High Availability, Security, Containerization, Container Orchestration, CI/CD, Infrastructure as a Code, building Golden Images, creating internal Libraries with different scripts, config files, modules that can be reused by the client. I need to ensure that every time I built something, it needs to be Automated, Easily Maintained, Documented and Engineered Smart (not Hard).
• Project: Major Insurance Company
• Co-Author of 90,000+ lines of Infrastructure as a Code
• Putting all infrastructure resources in Terraform
• Creating Terraform libraries that consist of reusable modules
• Building full CI/CD platform including pipelines, configurations, user access, creating groups.
• Using Terragrunt to avoid duplication of code and keep consistency of single files to deploy infrastructure
• Deploying infrastructure to DEV, QA, TEST AND PROD environments.
• Deploying Amazon Redshift Cluster using module in Terraform Registry with Terragrunt
• Developed custom module for Neptune to create cluster and instance, that is also used with Terragrunt.
• Managing secrets with sops, AWS Secrets Manager and retrieving secret values using custom developed modules.
• Writing wrapper scripts to do things like assume IAM role
• Encrypting and Decrypting files and objects with AWS KMS
• Creating custom module in Terraform that creates 100+ AWS S3 Buckes
• Making use of Terraform modules from Terraform Registry and Gruntwork IaC Library in Github
• Deployed full Gitlab environment from sratch in AWS, including things like VPC, ALB, Auto Scaling, IAM roles and policies

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chicago ,IL

• Building, architecting and engineering solutions that leverage Cloud Infrastructure to the clients. Consultant who helps clients migrate their applications from on-premise to Cloud or implement Hybrid solutions. Build application release lifecycles using the best practices of DevOps to make lives of Developers and other teams easier. Mentor and help fellow engineers who struggle with technical challenges related to Cloud, DevOps and Security.
• AWS, Azure & GCP
• Terraform & Cloudformation
• K8s, ECS
• Docker
• Lambda
• Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus
• Git, GitHub Enterprise, Azure Repos, CodeCommit, BitBucket
• Python & Bash Scripting
• ServiceNow, Splunk

Dec 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · 55 W Monroe St.

• AWS, Azure
• Git
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Python & Shell Scripting
• SQL and NoSQL: Cassandra, Redis, MariaDB, MySQL
• Web: Nginx & Tomcat
• FS: GlusterFS, LDAP, Samba
• Monitoring & Logging: Datadog, Zenoss, Graylog, Pagerduty
• Rundeck

Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mos · 53 W Jackson. St

• Coding & Scripting: Python & Bash
• LAMP: Linux (CentOS), Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Networking & Security: Configuring VPN, Iptables, ConfigServer Firewall (CSF), ACLs, TCP Wrappers, SELinux, SSL Ceritifcate Management
• Logging & Monitoring: Nagios, Nagdash, Grafana
• Package management: YUM, EasyApache (cPanel), pip
• Backup & Recovery: R1soft, rsync
• CMS: Wordpress and Joomla
• cPanel
• Virtuozzo
• Litespeed Web Server
• Confluence
• Protecting / Resolving issues with DDoS, Phishing and Hacking in WebHosting Environment
• Exim & Postfix: Configuring and troubleshooting Mail Servers
• Data Center - Physical Servers: Building, Racking, Changing Disks, (Re)Imaging to different OS

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Professional Training & Bootcamp style
• Understanding Linux Administration Role Responsibilities
• On-site Data Center Exploration
• Understanding different Linux Distros
• Working on Linux CentOS related projects
• Understanding Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions