Senior infrastructure and platform engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems on AWS and GCP. Extensive experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD, with a track record of delivering resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms. Developed robust automation, observability, and testing frameworks in Python and TypeScript to accelerate release cycles and improve reliability. Adept at collaborating across engineering, data, and product teams in fast-moving environments.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous early-stage environments as well as structured enterprise settings.
Technical Skills
- Cloud
- AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, Lambda), AWS CDK (boto3), Kubernetes, Docker, GCP
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Carvel (ytt/kapp), Packer
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Concourse, Buildbot
- Programming
- Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash/Shell, C, Linux
- Monitoring & Observability
- Prometheus, ELK/Elastic (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana), Sensu, Grafana
- Data & Messaging
- REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Prefect, Redis
- Security & Ops
- DevOps, SRE, AWS IAM, least-privilege design, cost management, incident response
February 2025 - October 2025
Member of Technical Staff
Omnifold
- Founding infrastructure engineer of early-stage AI demand planning startup. Duties included management of infrastructure, AWS account and cost management, testing, and release process
- Authored the cloud architecture and prototyped a webapp and ML backend on AWS
- Designed and deployed the initial company-wide AWS architecture
- Development of Terraform and Ansible for system deployment and ML experiments in the cloud
- Construction of Prefect data pipelines for ETL of customer data
August 2022 - January 2025
Senior Software Engineer - Testing and Automation
BrightSign
- Architected and oversaw automated testing for BrightSign digital signage players and associated software and cloud services
- Authored and maintained a headless TypeScript client for outer loop testing of BSN.cloud and BrightSign players
- Helped prototype Kubernetes deployment and Prometheus monitoring stack for realtime monitoring of BSN.cloud health with headless client
- Maintained and extended Python-based device firmware testing framework
- Authored Ansible deployment of device firmware testing framework to onsite servers
- Developed CI best practices using Github Actions for Quality Engineering team
October 2017 - July 2022
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
LeapYear Technologies
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Developed infrastructure and provided operational support for a differentially private analytics platform
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Authored a Kubernetes control plane using Helm charts and the Carvel tool chain
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Created a monitoring stack for real-time diagnosis of LeapYear software deployments
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Developed and curated of a Terraform and Ansible ecosystem for AWS deployments
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Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Concourse and CircleCI for
the delivery and testing of container images
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Scalability and concurrency testing for differential privacy implementation and analysis of results on AWS EMR
August 2015 - February 2017
Technical Lead
Cisco Systems
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Implemented Kubernetes deployment of a Concourse CI system for testing and deployment
of an on-premise cloud provisioning system (Metal as a Service)
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Operation and extension of a SaltStack-managed control plane
for the Infinite Video streaming provider platform
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Implementation of a monitoring system for Infinite Video services using Sensu
and including the creation of a headless testing client
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Development of CDN containerized speedtest software for reporting to Elasticsearch
January 2014 - June 2015
Senior Software Engineer
Cognitive Networks
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Authorship of a Python-driven headless client for monitoring and accuracy testing
of a distributed video automatic content recognition system for Smart TVs
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Viewership information data pipeline testing. The scope of testing included unit,
integration, and end to end tests.
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Development of AWS provisioning of system components using Boto
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Analysis of test result data including A:B experiments
March 2010 - December 2013
Software Engineer
Mozilla - Automation and Tools
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Development and maintenance of automated harnesses for testing and quality assurance of
the Firefox web browser
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Curation of Python ecosystem for test driver functionality
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Deployment to a multi-platform Buildbot continuous integration system
August 2006 - January 2010
Software Engineer
Openplans (formerly The Open Planning Project)
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Development of community collaboration web platforms and tools
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Introduced Buildbot continuous integration system and build framework
Education
August 2001 - May 2006
Graduate Student Researcher & Teaching Assistant
University of California, Berkeley – Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Computational plasma modeling (C/C++), teaching, and course support as part of PhD research.
June 2000 - May 2002
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
August 1996 - May 2000
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute