Satellite Communications Group

Responsible for responding to outages and bare metal configuration plus testing on over 500k physical nodes globally in a low-latency environment driving Apple’s cloud service revenue of $78 billion.Lead implementation of distributed method for accessing secure workloads via a Go proxy for SSH sessions that utilizes custom channels, LDAP authentication/authorization, and spans multiple teams and codebases reducing Kubernetes API overhead by 15% including first contributions to a new internal initiative for open engineering; a Kubernetes autoscaler and health-check system that reacts to scalar metrics reducing RBAC scope by 80% and a PSSH type utility to allow parallel, command execution in the 10000s plus output reports.Own novel process and code foundations for OCI artifacts signed through Notation with centralized Apple provenance at the development and CI/CD level; additionally, for those artifacts to be verified with Open Policy Agent custom functions against centralized policies and certificate authorities at the Kubernetes cluster level for a seamless tooling experience and secure software supply chain.Create stable, NodeJS pipelines for documentation sites with multiple layers of testing through CI/CD and change staging for review and refactor repositories to enforce hermetic builds while reducing compile time by 10 minutes through Bazel remote build execution.

Authored support Terraform toolbox for complex scenario validation to reduce on-call issue confirmation by 12 minutes.Hired and trained Technical Services Engineers for best-in-class support to drive Pure Storage’s 85.2 Net Promoter Score.Directed Severity One responses on issues ranging from data loss at government dark sites to hybrid bare metal/cloud networking scenarios with an overall time-to-fix and root cause analysis of less than 45 minutes.Dispatched technical engineers to work with developers while planning and automating escalation processes reducing SLO by 1 day.Awarded Catalyst honor for driving additional sales by reducing a customer’s Kafka storage overhead by 60% and ensuring their continued success through solutions architecture.

Led team in the creation of the first DoD, open source distribution of Kubernetes by bundling FIPs/NIST secured Red Hat images with patches to Kubernetes ClusterAPI for deployment into IL6+ AWS GovCloud and VMWare.Collaborated on the first DoD CI/CD software factory built on Istio, GitLab, Anchorage, Mattermost, ArgoCD, and other DevSecOps applications for a zero trust stack saving Air Force Command over 3 weeks of development time per new project.Provided direction and expertise on complex networking architecture in air gaps and mTLS networks solving week long issues in 3 hours.

Led team in a C# project which scanned guest's driver’s licenses, used AI to scrape name and picture, and a ServiceNow API to both print badges and notify hosts saving onsite security 10 minutes per check-in.Refactored SQL queries to increase efficiency of data lake backed, report generation by up to 6 times.Built an event driven, CI/CD pipeline for Ignition projects spanning development, staging, and production environments, with change management interfaces in ServiceNow, saving frontend developers 30 minutes per development and over 2 hours per production push.Evaluated and executed building sensor, IoT, data streams into ServiceNow and bidirectional manufacturing controls into Ignition creating standards for future reference and protecting Gallo's annual income of $5 billion.Implemented graph algorithms for physical storage in complex wine tank and pipe scenarios that backed 5 floor management interfaces.

Built highly available Wordpress hosting service on AWS using S3, RDS, Elasticache, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and distributed rendering/storage with HHVM/GlusterFS for a 99.99% uptime.Migrated stack to Kubernetes on CoreOS, bare metal for a 20% performance increase and 30% cost decrease.Constructed distributed e-mail services on scalable architecture with floating DNS records embedded with industry standard security.Automated client experience through Stripe and PHP to manage billing lifecycle including Domain Registration and service activation.