Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos

Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 · 9 mos

Dec 2023 – Apr 2024 · 4 mos

Jun 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 · 2 mos

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Architected and implemented a multi-region, multi-cloud platform based on kubernetes. Some key open source components that make up the platform are kong, istio, eks, external-dns, cert-manager, etc…
• Architected and implemented a centrally configured CD system for a mix of user-facing, micro, infrastructure, and stateful services.
• Partnered with engineering teams to establish a platform-wide full-stack tracing, and alerting leveraging Datadog’s RUM + APM + logging, Sentry, Opsgenie.
• Grew organization into 5 teams, SRE, QA, IT, Facilities, and Security
• Defined and evolved DevOps culture and supporting processes across entire organization

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · United States

• Helped to establish and lead the US Cloud Infrastructure and Reliability team.
• Architected and established operational processes across cloud services and leadership teams.
• Led and supported a stellar group of cloud infrastructure engineers.
• Key Learnings: Hyper-growth SaaS startup and engineering leadership at scale.

Dec 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led cloud infrastructure efforts to migrate Nest’s production service from puppet+VM to kubernetes in GCP.
• Worked across engineering orgs to evolve CD on kubernetes using spinnaker based canary patterns.
• Designed and released helm based operator managing workloads across a large number of kubernetes clusters.
• Key Learnings: Kubernetes and GKE at scale, Envoy and gRPC

Dec 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Delivered the automated CI/CD pipelines and container based platform for Driver
• Led engineering organization in use of kubernetes, docker, and CI/CD
• Delivered strong service to infrastructure contracts enabling lean infrastructure headcount.
• Key Learnings: HIPAA compliance, organizational leadership, self-service model applied at scale

Apr 2016 – Dec 2016 · 8 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Delivered fully automated, multi-region, multi-cloud platform
• Helped engineering run company with minimal ops support
• Key Learnings: Startup 101, proved self-service/no-ops can work

Aug 2012 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Managed a team of highly talented, senior engineers working through challenging scaling issues
• Led migration from AWS to GCP
• Designed and implemented hierarchical config and cloud management system
• Moved from IC to manager in 2014

Dec 2009 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Designed and implemented global, distributed monitoring solution
• Designed and built web deployment infrastructure
• Moved from IC to manager in 2010
• Key Lessons: Monitoring at scale, global network architectures

Mar 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

Nov 2003 – Mar 2008 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Mar 2002 – May 2003 · 1 yr 2 mos

Mar 2001 – Feb 2002 · 11 mos

May 1998 – May 2001 · 3 yrs

Jan 1993 – Jan 1997 · 4 yrs · Ft Bragg