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United States

United States

Developed the deployment and operation of secure, ephemeral, and scalable cloud-native platforms in AWS. Collaborated with platform architects to design and implement infrastructure solutions (Crossplane, Kubernetes, ArgoCD) and automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) to enhance platform performance and developer efficiency. Provided technical leadership and mentorship, driving process improvements and developing infrastructure modules to support cross-functional engineering teams in cloud environments. Invented h3env an extensible Python client to improve platform developer performance and reduce the growing complexity of Horizon3 environment lifecycle. Created Engineering-wide Horizon3 Improvement Proposals Process (HIP) providing a repeatable path for fostering cross-team collaboration on highly impactful changes to H3 products and interfaces. Migrated all Kubernetes workloads from Fleet to ArgoCD while refactoring their definitions to reduce duplication, drift, and readability.

Remote

Designing, refactoring, building, securing, and supporting enterprise pipeline and platform with a focus on collection, ingestion, processing, and analysis of data warehouse and business intelligence data.Enabled asynchronous and parallel data collection and ingestion. Improve pipeline testability by adding an ingested batch persistence layer. Introduced the ability to combine multiple parsing engines. Designed foundations of next-gen scalable data pipeline architecture. Up to 700% load-time optimization of multiple web pages backed by SQL.

Kansas, United States

Led and mentored team in new greenfield development foundations to create a cost-effective and scalable integration platform.Achievements: Created unified provisioning bootstrap to serve as the foundations of next generation platform. Partner refactor of Athena scheduling api integrations. Introduced Sentry Cron alerting for long running integration jobs.

Created, led, and mentored a team of highly skilled engineers while researching, designing, and implementing industry best practice tools and frameworks. Building a cost-effective, highly available, and scalable, multi-tenant platform, pipeline, and infrastructure supporting up to a million messages per second.Led the technical development of infrastructure for the new Axon cloud-native platform over 3.5 years with a public launch in early 2022. Developed comprehensive Kubernetes Operators for OpenSearch, Flink, and LogRhythm Microservices/Microfrontends. Created a high-performance multi-tenant data pipeline with enterprise service bus, self-serve domain-specific relational databases, central time-series, and tiered storage NoSQL database, and tenant-specific real-time analytics job clusters. Implemented fully secure and automated development golden paths for localdev and CICD. Automated creation, re-creation, and configuration of templated GitOps infrastructure as code environments and platforms. Full migration and integration of newly acquired Mistnet software into gold-standard CICD and platform. Providing best practice secure and public access to APIs and WebUIs through identity federated role-based access. Founded and staffed "Colossus of Cloud", a team of highly successful and skilled engineers. Earned my Bachelor's in Computer Science and completed the complete data science bootcamp on Udemy.Served as LogRhythm product expert on the DevOps team while migrating LogRhythm’s core services to a SAAS offering hosted on Google Cloud Platform.Developed de facto reference architecture and sizing guides for new cloud service offerings. Automated deployment of LogRhythm core services to Google Cloud Compute environment. Earned certifications in DevOps foundations, ITIL service management, Oracle SQL, and web development.

Boulder, Co

Delivered software to customers and internal teams through the development of release consulting, documentation, feedback, User Acceptance Testing, and bug management. Served part-time as TierIV escalations engineer contributing improvements and fixes directly to the core product.Successfully revived and managed the Global Early Access Beta Program into a cross-organizational effort that incrementally introduced software releases while gaining early feedback and re-establishing customer trust. Developed FIPS, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery guides for new next-generation deployment architectures. Created Splunk Integration Guide allowing bulk exportation of data from Splunk to LogRhythm and easing the process of migration from our competitor. Co-rebuilt the Release Champion Program tripling internal content contributions, improving cross-organizational relationships, and chopping our release cycle down from 1 year to 6 months. Co-managed over 4 new product launches, 5 major and 23 minor releases. Authored Threat Intelligence Provider Service and LogRhythm SIEM to CloudAI integration guides. Continuously provided consultation and optimizations helping to scale beyond the 200k and 300k Messages Per Second benchmarks. Co-authored and led the tiger team in the creation of a comprehensive Advanced Intelligence Engine best practice guide. Earned certifications in Project+.

Boulder, Co

Led team that designed, operated, and scaled Security Operations Centers for large enterprise customers. Overcame some of the company’s toughest projects through carefully crafted solution architectures. Provided team management, mentorship, training, and guidance.Successfully led LogRhythm's largest enterprise deployment consisting of more than 30 Data Indexers, 28 Data processors, 4 Platform Managers, 4 Event Managers, 4 Advance Intelligence Engines(AIE), 4 Metadata, 4 Archival, and 4 Network Monitor servers over the course of a year, reaching record-breaking 100k and 150k Messages Per Second(MPS) ingestion benchmarks. Significantly reduced correlation gaps in Advanced Intelligence Engine for customers exceeding 90k MPS limit by developing a framework for routing events to the proper Engine on a per use-case basis. Invented the Data Dictionary to help customers categorize parsed metadata from hundreds of supported logging sources. Created the TTL Projection Tool to calculate storage usage and requirements based on logging rates and average log sizes. Developed and published the Alarm Best Practices Database and Guide to provide and maintain recommended steps for pre-defined alarms a customer may receive.

Overland Park, Ks

Administration, onboarding, and security consulting for enterprise customers. Improved internal integration services and aided customers in implementing lasting change in their incident, security, and operational processes.**Achievements:** Co-designed comprehensive SIEM/tool agnostic threat defense framework categorizing customer assets into groups for utilization in threat detection rules, reports, and filtering. Successfully On-boarded over 12 enterprise SIEM customers each with different architectures, compliances, and use cases. Earned 2 certifications in LogRhythm.

Overland Park, Ks

Supported enterprise customers with a multitude of perimeter security products.Became the sole crossbeam expert and well-known for my firewall kernel debugging expertise. Earned 11 certifications including my CISSP in ISC2, Microsoft, Cisco, Palo Alto, Bluecoat, and Checkpoint.

Small Business Network and Security Administration while attending night school for cyber security.Earned certifications in networking and hardware. Graduated New Horizon's Cyber Defender Specialty Bootcamp.

Led a team of systems and network administrators deploying and managing military data systems.Earned Two Colonel's coins for the successful rapid deployment of Service Pack 26 across the entire West Coast fleet of Tactical Battle Management Core Systems. First successful cross-regional HA over SIPRnet VPNs in over three years during single-month deployment. Earned Honor Graduate, Top of Class, Iron Man, and Meritorious MAST certifications upon graduating from Tactical Data Systems Administrator School.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Tactical Data Systems Administrator Course, 4.0

Cyber Defender Program

Education record

Information Security Courses

EC Council, Palo Alto, Blue Coat, Check Point, F5