• Core member of the platform team responsible for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built using Python/GitLabCI/Spinnaker that enables developers to manage hundreds of microservices via self-serve CI/CD leveraging the Kubernetes platform.• Collaborate with end user dev teams to promote build and deployment best practices while encouraging developer feedback / contribution to the overall platform.• Responsible for day to day Kubernetes infrastructure managed in AWS EKS - including supporting controllers/services.• Responsible for cluster security practices including scanning and reporting to maintain Fedramp compliance in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

• Lead the migration to the Kubernetes platform for our SRE/developer team (about a dozen services) and evangelize the Kubernetes platform overall.• Worked closely with partner dev teams to optimize SLDC for Java Springboot applications in the Kubernetes environment.• Implemented the team’s SLOs for our services by working with the dev team to identify optimal SLIs.• Migrated a series of mission critical core notification events services from physical datacenters to AWS without incurring outages or service degradation.• Utilized Saltstack to manage and deploy non-Kubernetes services in EC2 infrastructure.

• Work closely with developers to accelerate / improve application lifecycles which included Jenkins CI/CD pipelines in a fully container based microservices environment.• Member of a team charged with migrating from a Heroku to a Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environment in order to lower costs and leverage the flexibility of the Kubernetes ecosystem.

• Perform greenfield architecture design and existing infrastructure migration projects for clients in the AWS cloud ecosystem. Full technical project ownership with deep customer contact from project kickoff to completion.• Develop new DevOps development processes for team adoption to help drive/ improvements to improve project agility, efficiency and turnaround utilizing tools including Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible and various CI/CD products.

- Managed several high visibility IT projects that included migrations from a co-located datacenter to an in-house datacenter for several high volume web applications. - Served as an technical liaison (devops) between development, operations and the business

- Post acquisition integration of high volume web applications to new company business systems - including new API integration and interoperability functionality.-​ Streamlined inherited software deployments and improved application insight via​ telemetry / monitoring integration for all web applications (development of custom hooks to monitoring and cloud APIs).

- Championed adoption of a DevOps philosophy that allowed a very small development/operations team maintain a near zero bug backlog, react quickly to issues and innovate in a market originally dominated by much larger corporations. - Responsible for procurement, configuration and management of all company business infrastructure including version control and build / deployment environments – consisting of a virtualized HA clustered vSphere environment supporting (web) applications suited to the company’s 100% telecommute workforce.-Automated deployments and developed custom JIRA (Java) plugins via Salesforce APIs to improve the support, development and operations lifecycle. -Developed synchronized backups and redundant DR system based on a Linux custom solution (BASH/cron scripted rsync) that increased MTTR utilizing local backup servers and offsite cloud locations (Amazon S3). - ​ Full stack developer on a small team that developed multiple C# ASP.NET MVC web applications including a school payments website that processed 8-10 million dollars in transactions monthly.-Sole ​ ownership of PCI-DSS compliance (1.2, 2.0, pre 3.0) and payment processor API integration from the business, developer and operations perspective for a multi-million dollar school payments website hosted for customers that included 3 of the top 5 public school districts in the country.

- Architected and managed day to day operations of development and production web infrastructure that supported the company ecommerce and B2B websites backed by RHEL and Windows environments. - Co-developed and implemented customer facing e-commerce site (​ www.oreck.com​ ) and a B2B front-end website (​ www.oreckretail.com​ ) that managed real-time inventory, order status, locality sales tax calculations and custom reporting - all of which required deep Java integration with the company’s AS400 ERP system.

-Day to day system and network operations for a mixture of Windows/Linux systems spanning regional corporate and manufacturing facilities.