• Provide strategic DevOps advisory services for SaaS companies and startups.• Specialize in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, cloud optimization.• Achieve an average of 40% AWS cost savings through right-sizing and architecture changes.Client highlights:Thrive Global• Guided engineering team through transitioning to a technology company.• Designed operations and systems to move POC and MVP projects into full scale production.• Roadmapped AWS management, addressing application segregation, access, and security.• Implemented a versioned database migration workflow for SDLC.HypGames, mobile game studio• Designed and built a greenfield game development platform on AWS using Chef, Terraform, and CircleCI to empower a startup studio's agile delivery of 6+ mobile game titles.• Engineered a robust CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI that has facilitated over 200K+ mobile client builds and 1M+ backend/web/service builds to-date, enabling rapid iteration and product delivery.• Built a comprehensive monitoring system using Xymon, Graphite, Grafana, ELK, and custom tooling.• Developed DynamoDB auto-scaling, replication and backup solutions before Amazon offered it.Mission, development agency - healthcare client• Led global team migration of 300+ legacy Jenkins pipelines to CircleCI.• Directed the creation of a central CircleCI orb to consolidate legacy pipelines.PerformLine, SaaS compliance technology company• Enhanced DevOps capabilities, optimizing software delivery and infrastructure management.• Identified 14% AWS cost savings with low engineering effort.• Streamlined delivery pipeline, reduced bugs, and increased software release frequency.Genosity, SaaS genomics company• Established in-house engineering structure for control and stability.• Developed infrastructure roadmap for stability and accountability.• Provided hands-on coaching to resolve pipeline issues and optimize AWS resources.

serving a hobbyist mailing list and website for one of the oldest Volkswagen Bus (type2) communities on the Internet

Produced a greenfield game platform build-out using chef-provisioning (formerly chef-metal) and Terraform to apply configuration management practices to AWS configurations, and chef-solo to manage servers.Game titles (unreleased): Tiger Woods Golf, Pool Mobile, FanDuel NFL & NBA Turbo

Provided operational support for Zynga Sports 365 studio and NFL Showdown across multiple platforms. Tier 3 support for hybrid private/public cloud infrastructure up to 40,000 instances for all game and service teams. Implemented ChatOps, transitioning from Skype to Hipchat. Developed custom monitoring and communication notifications. My changes to the infrastructure and config management platforms were instrumental in Zynga's return to AWS and shutdown of the private cloud.Game titles: NFL Showdown, Tiger Woods Golf (unreleased), Dawn of Titans

As part of the small TechOps sysadmin team for an online "deal of the day" marketplace, supported systems and servers for a complex Ruby on Rails web application with over 40 million users.

Redesigned a managed hosting company’s internal system to build in automation for bare metal servers. Designed a centralized system to consolidate account authentication.

• Architected a custom PHP-based webservices framework for rapid online game feature development.• Created versatile custom stress testing toolkit for all of our game platforms and services.• Established proactive monitoring, alerting, and statistics systems on top of Xymon, Cacti, and Graphite.• Achieved rapid server provisioning for Xen and Amazon AWS EC2 with Puppet and custom IAC platform.• Architected a telemetry (live game data for business intelligence) collection and analytics system with virtually no scaling limit. Tested to 100,000 requests/second using minimal server resources.Game titles: Tiger Woods Online, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 PC, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 (XBox/PS3), PGA Tour Golf Challenge, Madden 25 Mobile, Madden Social 13, Madden Superstars, World Series Superstars, NHL Superstars, Tee Shot Live.

Developed a strategy for scaling the VA corporate IPTV CDN to accommodate a 10-fold increase in capacity from 20,000 to 200,000 concurrent users. Prototyped a new CDN portal for expanded IPTV and VOD infrastructure.

As Director of Network Operations, managed a small team and a 250-server environment and CDN across seven colocation facilities, supporting college athletic department websites, streaming video-on-demand, and live online television. Responsible for to Level 1 Service Provider PCI DSS compliance.

Founded and operated an ISP startup providing dial-up and dedicated hosting services. Architected and managed the network and systems infrastructure.