Broken PC? That’s what I fix. I have had a passion for computer hardware since I was 12. I remember a scout camp where I came home with 3 computers given away by the computing merit badge teachers. My mom was not very happy about that. My bed was so full of spare parts that I only slept on 1/3 of the space of the mattress. I had built and rebuilt many computers in my youth.During my time off, I found myself having great joy working with my current computers. I run several servers - both physical and even more virtual. I have had joy helping my friends troubleshoot theirs. I felt like I have reconnected to who I was back then. Now I get paid for doing what I love. 🤩😃

As part of the customer success team, I developed relationships with engineering teams and business managers to accelerate their success with the Replicated platform. I gave critical technical guidance to deliver and manage their software in any environment. I also defined and influenced many of the Customer Success processes and performed several training sessions and videos.I was directly responsible for the success of top accounts representing $2M ARR

Founded Seed to tackle one of the most daunting challenges in enterprise software adoption – seamless integration with existing stacks. Seed's cutting-edge platform automates complex integrations, empowering enterprises to adopt new software swiftly and effortlessly. Experience rapid, simple, and seamless software adoption with Seed.

Instrumental in defining and implementing strategic direction of the cloud-consulting division with the CEO, including researching and communicating the Kubernetes industry landscape, implementing plans and goals to strengthen client and partner relationships, and developing internal cross-department relationships to communicate and achieve goalsFounded and directed the Altoros Academy, an internal project serving both external clients and our internal team of 20 consulting engineers, providing thought leadership, training, and assessment services. Focused on Kubernetes (open source, GKE, EKS, AKS, Tanzu TKG), Cloud Foundry, CI/CD, Istio, and Cloud-Native application designInstrumental in customer-facing pre-sales activities by identifying customer objectives and developing scoping documents and statements-of-work to achieve these goalsDesigned, developed week-long external Kubernetes trainings, delivered 15 of those trainings, 6 webinars and blog posts on application platform-maturity, and performed 21 candidate interviews

Consulted, assessed and trained Fortune 200 and 500 companies on Kubernetes, Istio, CI/CD and more.Ensured and Implemented best practices for all clients. For example, Kubernetes pod design (e.g. resource limits, health checks, app config), blue/green/canary deployments, RBAC, IaaS integrations (e.g. persistent volumes, Ingress, LoadBalancer services), etc. Resolved a production business-critical application performance issue where a hidden memory leak in all microservice applications affected app and platform stability. Accomplished by implementing application monitoring with Prometheus using custom alerting and dashboards, providing call tracing with Istio and Jaeger, and enabling debugging applications in Kubernetes using remote debugging tools in Visual StudioDesigned and implemented consistency across client environments (Dev, QA, Prod) by automating the deployment and upgrade of Kubernetes clusters with eksctl and business-critical apps and their dependencies (e.g. Istio, RabbitMQ, NGINX Ingress) using Jenkins and HelmCreated a detailed multi-year roadmap to address all CIS-Benchmark identitifed security issues of open-source Kubernetes clusters for a Fortune 200 insurance company

Designed, implemented and supported the deployment and management of the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Filebeat) used for logging on 500 prod Kubernetes clustersDesigned and implemented the Elasticsearch Ansible Role, augmenting the Kubespray Ansible playbook to include deployment and lifecycle management of the Elastic stack on KubernetesDeveloped enhancements to the Java based Elasticsearch plugin SearchGuard - adding support for a proprietary AT&T authentication and authorization backendDesigned and implemented integration, load testing and troubleshooting utilities using Java, Python, Bash, and Ruby

A social media integration platform to manage and automate sales activities for small retailers

Worked on the Cloud Foundry team developing a new logging and metrics product.Developed microservices in Golang which perform application logs and metrics aggregation for Metrics APM product, empowering developers and operators with better visibilityImplemented testing with Ginkgo, CI/CD with Concourse, deployment with BOSH

Led a team of 4 developers in translating a business-critical monolithic enterprise PHP application into RESTful Spring/Java microservicesDeveloped architecture, translation process, and future plans, then effectively communicated these to client leadership through technical presentations and meetingsWrote custom supporting tools that automated 90% of the workflow for translating existing functionality

Deployed instances of open source Cloud Foundry on vSphere (internally) to better understand the benefits and efforts of deploying, maintaining and harnessing Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologiesDeveloped a prototype data security service connector and service broker for Cloud Foundry - written in Ruby and powered by Voltage SecureData, enabling applications to secure their data in a convenient and 12-factor wayWrote a custom framework, using Ruby and Watir, to verify output between a client's old and new reporting systems - enabling the client to identify and correct discrepancies quicklyConstructed an automated deployment process for a large enterprise application in shell script, enabling repeatable deployments with no additional dependencies

Built risk management software on Salesforce. The initial expectations of my internship were to implement a very small set of features on a single project. I accomplished these goals very early. I quickly took on the full scope of the project, and almost completed it by the end of the internship.• Worked primarily on the Incident Management package for one client• Proficiently learned APEX and Visual Force• Worked with the product manager to clarify and implement specifications daily

Participated in Agile/Scrum in a large team developing in C++.Added 7 new features and fixed 47 reported bugs in the IMAGINE Photogrammetry suite.