May 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, United States · Hybrid

• Accidentally learned a lot about pharmacy rebate programs.

Oct 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Led the initial requirements gathering, implementation, and on-going feature work for the company's "cloud-prem" solution for AWS and GCP, which generates 80% of the company's revenue.
• Hired, coached, and grew a team of ten high-performing engineers.
• Built security program, engaged auditors, and delivered unqualified reports over multiple audit periods for SOC 2 Type II+ HIPAA and PCI 4.0 Level 1 for Service Providers. Provided subject matter expertise on GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA/HITECH, and other privacy laws. Acted as the company's PCI Internal Service Assessor and Certified HIPAA Security and Privacy Expert.
• Implemented and aligned security processes, policies, and systems with best practices and industry standards.
• Completed the technical implementation of SIEM, device management and trust infrastructure, endpoint detection, identity services, least-privilege, just-in-time access requests, cloud IAM, and others.
• Owned unit economics and cloud cost optimization across product lines, driving storage and compute auto-scaling improvements with 7x reduction in per-unit costs for the free tier.
• Managed evaluation, lifecycle, contracts, and relationships with majority of critical vendors, including SaaS vendors, audit/advisory/security firms, value-added resellers, and cloud service providers.

Aug 2016 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Built team focused on data center, cloud, and edge, which provided foundational infrastructure for systems across the company, through hiring and leading software, systems, and network engineers.
• Improved the durability and availability of GitHub.com by leading the company's expansion from a single data center to multi-site and multi-region disaster recovery capabilities.
• Proposed and implemented post-acquisition expansion plans, leading the team to bring up multiple new facilities and introduce a new full mesh backbone network with 12Tbps of capacity in 10 weeks.
• Managed the strategy, roadmap, timelines, budgets, and teams responsible for GitHub's cloud, data center, network, and edge infrastructure, encompassing 30 engineers and TPMs.
• Operationalized physical, logical, network, and application-related systems and procedures for SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI, and other frameworks as an owner for a significant portion of the company's technical controls.
• Accelerated hardware deployment by working with OEMs and integrators to design rack-level storage and compute systems.
• Budgetary owner for hardware, telco, cloud, and other services encompassing approximately $100M of annual spend.

Apr 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Drove improvements to data center bootstrapping, networking, hardware deployment, and configuration management to enable the company's rapid growth.
• Rebuilt the public DNS product improve scalability and global redundancy, supporting its growth from 300k to 4M public zones.
• Hired team of systems, hardware, and software engineers for end-to-end hardware intake and lifecycle management.
• Participated from conception to production in the company's block storage offering, leading the hardware and network evaluation, design, and deployment.
• Maintained configuration management via Chef, used across tens of thousands of machines across a dozen data centers.
• Worked with network and storage ODMs to reduce hypervisor crash rate by 75% through improvements to Linux drivers.
• Managed unit economics and negotiated with hardware vendors for the company's second and third generation hypervisor platforms.

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Implemented features and fixed bugs for open source data center management software written in Ruby.
• Contributed to upstream and OS projects through software development and packaging, including Fedora.
• Acted as a technical advisor to the CEO and other key stakeholders around the integration of CentOS before and during the acquisition of the project.
• Received patent for work on configuration management and monitoring systems integration.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Greater New York City Area

• First systems/operationally-focused engineer.
• Managed application, database, load balancing, operating systems, deployments, and other pieces of production infrastructure in a primarily Python and C++ environment.
• Introduced initial centralized logging and error tracking systems to provide better visibility to engineers.
• Worked with application engineers to build and optimize deployment and testing infrastructure for continuous integration.
• Maintained automation for local development and production environments