Jul 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Oakland, California, United States

• In the AI, era the equivalent role is "Forward Deployed Engineer" - Implementation Hacker.
• At Teleport, I worked with large Fortune 100 enterprise customers, helping them scale secure access and identity. It was incredible to see how global organizations approached cybersecurity and leveraged our products to build trust and resilience.
• Brought down the time to value of the products.
• Built custom solution for them and made sure their implementation was successful and adopted.
• Landed and expanded the contract value from 10 to 25x over time.
• Represented the company at webinars and tradeshows.
• As the product evolved and we started offering multiple products, I drove the enablement and built certification and enablement programs for partners and practitioners.

Jun 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs · Oakland, California, United States

• After years in DevSecOps, I wanted to learn the business side of technology — how products are built, sold, and scaled.
• That’s when I joined Teleport in a customer-facing engineering role, working across pre-sales and post-sales. Wearing multiple hats in a fast-growing startup that scaled from a few million to multi-fold revenue taught me customer empathy and the art of connecting technology to real business impact.
• It was a defining step toward my long-term mission — to build products that earn trust and drive change.

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• At the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), I’ve contributed to and peer-reviewed several industry papers and whitepapers that define how cloud security should be implemented and governed globally. I’ve had the opportunity to both learn from global experts and share practical insights on how modern cloud security should be built and practiced.

Oct 2021 – May 2022 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Flexport was growing at an incredible pace, scaling infrastructure for its modern freight-forwarding software. I was part of the Developer Experience team, focused on building and scaling developer platforms to keep up with that rapid growth.

Aug 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Joining VMware as a DevOps Engineer was a great experience. I got to work on systems running at huge enterprise scale, and being part of the Security Business Unit gave me my first real exposure to cybersecurity — that’s where my journey into combining DevOps and security truly began.
• 1. Architect and Design cloud Infrastructure.
• 2. Built an adapter for Harbor registry (Interrogation service) to leverage Carbon Black’s image scanning service and open sourced it - https://github.com/vmware/carbon-black-adapter-for-harbor
• 3. Help developers to build and refactor application to micro services - Kubernetes
• 4. Build Public Cloud Infrastructure using IaaC - AWS, Terraform.
• 5. Help developers to adopt Kubernetes enviroment - Helm.
• 6. Build Monitoring and Observability solution for applications and infrastructure - LogZ, wavefront.
• 7. Architect generic CI/CD pipelines for applications - Gitlab, harbor.

Nov 2019 – Aug 2020 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• This role was purely focused on Kubernetes — every pod, node, and deployment was built from scratch. I architected and implemented the entire infrastructure needed to migrate the 8x8 Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) stack — on top of the Kubernetes clusters I designed, deployed, and secured myself.
• 1. ​Design and develop the Kubernetes Infrastructure on top of public cloud.​
• 2. Build Automation tools for creating cloud infrastructure components using python and terraform.
• 3. ​Building Infrastructure monitoring tools for Kubernetes environment.
• 4. ​Building tools for migrating legacy data center services and new services to Kubernetes environments.
• 5. ​Create Automation tools to maintain the cloud infrastructure and working horizontally across teams.
• 6. ​Creating CI/CD tools to deploy applications on Kubernetes environment.

Jul 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• My first job right after grad school! I didn’t want to follow the traditional software engineering path — instead, I was excited about the growing cloud movement. I dove deep into AWS and Kubernetes, earned multiple certifications, and successfully landed a DevOps Engineer role.
• Cradlepoint was acquired by Ericsson for $1.1 billion — marking an incredible milestone and my first exposure to a successful startup exit. That experience left me with a lasting passion for building and scaling startups.
• Build and set up Kubernetes infrastructure from the scratch on AWS using KOPS and Terraform.
• Helping Developers by writing Helm Charts for Deployments.
• Creating, Maintaining and Enhancing the Entire AWS Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.
• Migrating the Jenkins jobs to Gitlab runners.
• Decommissioning Clusters/Environments.
• Built tools for bootstrapping an EKS Cluster using terraform, docker, bash and python.
• Set up Prometheus and FluentD for logging and monitoring of the kubernetes cluster.
• Creating datadog monitors using terraform.