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New York, New York, US

• Lead technical program management, platform architecture, DevOps, security, and the practice’s strategy and project execution enterprise-wide, managing four direct and 30 indirect reports, with an approximately $4M per.
• Evolved the product offering as a practice area leader to be responsive to market trends and client needs, training on emergent techniques, and selected to jumpstart the Infrastructure-as-Code offering and launch a.
• Oversee high-level client portfolios, including Google, Intel, United Rentals, and T-Mobile, road-mapping and architecting project strategies/solutions for sales and client engagement.
• Modernized the group cloud infrastructure delivery through IaC and the automation platform implementation, decreasing infra deployment time for critical apps by around 90%, enabling infrastructure managers to maintain.

Chicago, IL, US

• Recruited and led the DevOps and SRE team in developing and delivering Infrastructure-as-Code, utilizing Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, Bash, and Python; organized and modernized the code base, reducing code.
• Optimized, architected, and delivered the CICD pipeline, forensically securing undocumented Jenkins infra and app pipelines, and migrating pilot applications from Jenkins CICD pipelines to CircleCI; repaired the broken.
• Refined and standardized app architecture and delivery for around 20 APIs and microservices, and secret key architecture for 30 APIs and microservices via AWS secret manager.
• Migrated a mission-critical and outdated customer-facing, hand-rolled SFTP application to the AWS Transfer Family.
• Maintained full-scale production of a Tableau cluster for an industry-leading Review Analytics application.
• Architectural lead for a tech organization of 40 direct and indirect reports, serving five product teams earning improved ARR (+20%), building systems, and implementing the Developer Enablement initiative; enabled.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Consolidated data centers into long-term efficiency based homes, leading an engineering team in migrating Bamboo, Jenkins, and production infrastructure/SaaS applications to efficient centralized physical data centers.
• Executed the cloud health/efficiency program, implementing and utilizing tooling to find opportunities to improve efficiency in cloud infrastructure, and implementing waste mitigation through retiring inactive cloud.
• Managed the distributed DevOps and SRE teams across the US, UK, Ukraine, and India, supporting over 40 highly diverse products with infra and app pipeline management in a matrix-based structure; hired, trained, and.
• Led a team of DevOps contributors covering 25% of the product base in Ukraine, managed the knowledge transfer and exit strategy for a team in the UK responsible for five products, and onboarded FTE team members in the.
• Architected and delivered CICD for the hybrid-cloud within the VSphere Datacenter and Azure cloud.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Designed and implemented a secure and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP for an e-commerce client, including a new microservice and CICD architecture, enabling daily feature releases vs. monthly.
• Developed new e-commerce capacity and increased reliability, projected to earn $100M per year in revenue.
• Architected and delivered the Jenkins automation platform for infra and software pipelines.
• Co-created a python library for GCP Deployment Manager, enabling disaster recovery capabilities to create services from ground up on an automated basis with IaC.

• Co-founded the company from the ground up, leading the engineering team in securing seed funding, developing collateral, and developing applications for business partnerships, including a $100K deal with Neustar to.
• Pivoted to boutique consulting due to lasting partnerships in Financial Services, Gaming, New Ventures, and other industries; generated billings of more than $5M over 10 years, 30% from leading Cloud/DevOps department.
• Led the technical execution of marketing initiatives for high-profile clients, providing critical systems design and development for customer-facing websites, and supporting critical reach to customers and investors.
• Developed a consumer data tracking tool for Midland Credit, utilizing cloud infrastructure and third-party APIs to track users through a messaging funnel, improving click-through rates by 300% and reducing unsubscribes.
• Developed an IaC and CICD pipeline product for Midland Credit, launching a Linux hosting environment for a content management application inside a high-security/high-compliance financial services environment.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed IT spending, designed IT solutions, and executed rollouts for multiple secondary education campuses, planning and resourcing area networks (fiber) at multiple locations to centralize and support growing NPO and.
• Secured millions in federal tech funding through the city government for growing the Chicago Public School’s charter school network, developing a Technology Plan and receiving approval by Chicago Public Schools.
• Instrumental in raising several million dollars over the course of three years, assisting with grant writing, procuring event space, graphic design, technology, and organizing events such as a charity poker tournament.