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Orange County, Ca, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Leading the architecture and implementation of a cutting-edge, multi-region AWS data platform that revolutionizes cybersecurity operations and threat intelligence capabilities. Designing and deploying a highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure to ingest, process, and analyze terabytes of security data in real-time across geographically dispersed data centers.• Architected and implemented a comprehensive observability solution using OpenTelemetry, Loki, CloudWatch, and Grafana, resulting in a 40% reduction in Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) for security incidents and a 30% increase in proactive threat mitigation.• Developed custom OpenTelemetry collectors in Golang, standardizing metric extraction across diverse sources, leading to a 70% reduction in monitoring tool costs and a 50% improvement in data consistency across 20+ applications.• Engineered a zero-downtime, multi-region data ingestion system using Amazon EKS, custom Kubernetes operators, and Golang services, achieving 99.999% uptime and processing over 1 million events per second with sub-second latency.• Designed and implemented a flexible plugin architecture for data collectors, reducing integration time for new security data sources by 60% and enabling the security team to onboard 5 new data sources in a single quarter.• Developed a custom DNS healthcheck application for monitoring private endpoints, improving service availability by 15% and reducing false positives in routing policies by 80%.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Led the transformation of Southwest Airlines' customer identity and access management infrastructure, implementing DevSecOps practices that enhanced security for over 200 million active customer accounts. Spearheaded initiatives that resulted in an 80% improvement in overall security posture, streamlined authentication processes, and prevented multi-million dollar fraud attempts. Orchestrated the seamless integration of advanced security measures into the development pipeline, fostering a culture of 'security-as-code' across the organization.• Spearheaded the implementation of a next-generation authentication architecture, leveraging Ping Identity suite, AWS services (CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB), and custom integrations to secure 200 million customer accounts.• Architected a fraud prevention system using F5 Shape, AWS CloudFront, and Python Lambdas, resulting in multi-million dollar savings and significantly enhanced security posture.• Designed and implemented a novel session persistence mechanism using DynamoDB, PingFederate, and custom middleware, achieving 99.99% authentication availability during provider maintenance windows.• Led cross-functional teams in the adoption of DevSecOps practices, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins) and resulting in a 90% reduction in authentication vulnerabilities.• Optimized authentication infrastructure, reducing transaction times from 8 seconds to under 4 seconds, leading to a 25% increase in customer satisfaction scores for login experiences.• Upgraded EKS clusters to leverage Karpenter, cutting EC2 and networking costs by 50% and enabling zero-downtime upgrades, improving overall system reliability by 30%.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Architected and implemented a comprehensive cloud-native platform for Aircraft Operations, leveraging advanced CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and innovative containerization strategies. Engineered robust, scalable infrastructure solutions that elevated system uptime to 99.995%, significantly enhancing operational reliability. Optimized resource utilization and streamlined development workflows, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and markedly improved deployment frequency. Led the adoption of GitOps practices and Kubernetes-based orchestration, enabling rapid, consistent application deployments across multiple environments.• Architected a comprehensive observability solution using FluentD, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling real-time monitoring of critical systems and facilitating rapid incident response.• Designed and implemented an intelligent data lifecycle management system using Golang, AWS Lambda, and S3, optimizing storage costs by 35% and improving data retrieval speeds by 50% for frequently accessed data.• Led the migration to a multi-architecture Kubernetes environment, implementing advanced pod scheduling and resource allocation strategies with Helm, resulting in 30% faster deployments to production and a 99% success rate and seamless rollbacks of changes.• Engineered robust, scalable infrastructure solutions that elevated system uptime to 99.995%, resulting in a 60% reduction in operational disruptions and an estimated $5 million in saved costs from prevented flight delays over a 12-month period.• Orchestrated the migration of the entire organizational codebase from BitBucket to GitLab, implementing new CI/CD pipelines with automated Slack/SNS notifications.• Designed and developed a Redis cluster to ensure critical data feed of real-world events, improving data processing speed by 70% and enabling real-time decision making for irregular operations and weather-related schedule changes.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions for managing flight schedules, including optimization algorithms, routing engines, and real-time adjustments.• Developed a centralized logging framework capable of processing billions of log entries, utilizing FluentBit, Fluentd, Opensearch, and Kibana to enable advanced log analytics across 60+ applications. • Architected a PII-aware data curation system using Python, serverless functions, and S3, ensuring compliance while optimizing storage costs reducing audits saving 30% on logging cost.• Implemented distributed tracing using AWS X-Ray for complex, multi-service applications, significantly improving debugging efficiency for JavaScript and Python Lambda functions. • Designed and deployed a high-performance file storage system optimized for rapid scenario testing, leveraging Terraform, Packer, and Ansible for infrastructure automation, increasing testing throughput by 70% and reducing environment setup time from 2 days to 1 hour. • Migrated Flight Management UI from legacy identity provider SAML to new OIDC 2.0 endpoint, improving authentication transactions from 12+ seconds to less than 3 seconds and providing enhanced security standards such as passkeys. This hardened critical operation services, reducing security incidents by 40%.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Collaborated with Premier Field Engineers and Consultants to provide Azure Cloud solutions for hybrid and cloud native environments.• Configured and troubleshoot DNS, established Domain Controllers, maintained Active Directory within a hybrid cloud environment.• Designed IT infrastructure management in a hybrid cloud environment to include servers, workstations, and networks.• Implemented Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions, from virtual machines, high availability, disaster recovery, and server migration.• Automated resource deployment and configuration using ARM Templates, JSON, PowerShell, Shell Script, Ansible, and Terraform.• Installed and configured Windows Server 2016, Linux Ubuntu, and Red Hat Enterprise Servers.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for staff coordination and assisting in developing, issuing, and executing company responsibilities, providing technical advice, training management, and readiness assistance to subordinate organizations. • Acted as a business advisor, responsible for ensuring quality experience while focusing on project goals and delivery dates while managing and overseeing over 100 personnel company including daily administrative duties, legal procurement, ad-hoc project and staff training resulting in mission readiness.• Mentoring and assisting in the personal development of peers through the creation and delivery of educational and training programs.• Conducted and documented the maintenance and software upgrades of the Combat Operations Center valued at over $2.1M. Maintaining a consistent readiness percentage of 100%.

Washington, Dc, Us

Liaison between customers and users to ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs. Manage and develop client accounts to initiate and maintain favorable relationship with clients and address any issues with the software.• Managed and maintained 1500+ individuals accounts, assigning proper roles and responsibilities to perform daily tasks, providing timely customer support and training programs for users to utilize the software.• Pioneered the infrastructure of the program, creating a procedure for users requesting access as well as training standards for those unfamiliar with the software. • Performed audits of accounts ensuring users and resources were optimized to fulfill needs of customer and improve relationship with organization.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for analyzing financial statements and predicting future requirements of the company. Forecasted future revenues and expenditures, as well as modeling capital structure and budgeting. And supporting all logistical requirements of team members.• Provided weekly accurate data of budget to the director of the organization, ensuring proper and timely liquidation of funds, meeting budget and time constraints of customers and organization.• Managed budget of $670k, appropriated funds for logistical requirements provided necessary statements in support of purchases to accounting department. • Eliminated inefficiencies in the process of purchasing and negotiating with vendors and clients. Improve customer relationship and quality of life for team members.

Washington, Dc, Us

Perform and monitor management and procedural application of manual or automated inventory control actions. As well as plan, execute, control, and monitor supply chain activities with the objective of leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand, measuring performance and facilitating accountability in retail and intermediate inventory activities.• Created and maintained databases for all purchases and invoices of goods and services purchased by clients for quarterly inspections.• Transacted 2500+ different pieces of equipment worth approximately $3M. Ensuring all documentation was in compliance with regulation for inspections.• Maintained favorable relationships with clients and vendors, providing quality client support and alleviating any issues with the organizations supply chain requirements.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Software Engineering

Associate'S Degree, Technical Management

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Science