Experience
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
- Architect and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS), managing deployments via Helm charts and reducing deployment times.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision highly available resources, including AWS RDS instances, Redis Clusters, and VPC networking.
- Automate Linux system administration and operational tasks by writing custom Go and Bash scripts, replacing manual workflows with reliable code.
- Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines on GitLab and GitHub, integrating Python Lambda functions for serverless automation.
- Hardened security posture by implementing container image scanning within Amazon ECR and automating remediation workflows.
Cloud Software Engineer
- Led migration of complex data pipelines from AWS EMR to AWS Glue, leveraging serverless architecture to reduce operational overhead and cloud costs.
- Standardized CI/CD pipelines across multiple client applications, enabling consistent deployment strategies and faster iteration cycles.
- Extended internal right-sizing tools to support Azure VMs, utilizing Python to analyze usage metrics and recommend cost-saving adjustments.
- Engineered a Virtual Reality environment using Three.js and AWS Sumerian, building a serverless backend with Lambda, S3, and Amazon Lex.
Software Engineer
- Developed a cloud cost analysis platform using Angular and a Python Flask backend, enabling internal teams to optimize cloud spend across the enterprise.
- Built and maintained data pipelines using Hadoop EMR to process large-scale financial datasets.
- Enhanced the "Eno" virtual assistant by developing new features and security protocols using a Node.js backend.
- Completed an intensive six-month software engineering development program focused on full-stack development and cloud best practices.
Software Engineering Intern
- Automated the deployment of Informatica MDM on AWS EC2 using CloudFormation templates.
Software Engineering Intern
- Developed a foundation for cloud integration of the company's core product.
- Created key performance indicator dashboards in Tableau for customer-facing reporting.
- Built a Slack bot enabling customers to interact with product data programmatically.
Skills
Infrastructure as Code
Container Orchestration
AWS
Languages
CI/CD & DevOps
Observability
Open Source
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Enhanced management of external DNS records for Kubernetes services, directly improving service discovery capabilities within the ecosystem.
View my PRs →opentofu/opentofu
Active contributor to the open-source Terraform fork, helping ensure the longevity and stability of open IaC standards for the community.
View my PRs →aquasecurity/trivy
Contributor to Trivy, the industry-standard open-source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanner for containers, filesystems, and infrastructure.
View my PRs →openbao/openbao
Contributor to OpenBao, the open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault, providing community-driven secrets management and identity-based security.
View my PRs →hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Contributor to the official AWS provider for Terraform, one of the most widely used infrastructure-as-code providers in the ecosystem.
View my PRs →Education
The Ohio State University
B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Focus: Operations Research