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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 year run rate with a major wireless carrier; expanded team billings from $2M to $4M within the first year of employment.• 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 capability team.• 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 24-hour SLA for security finding remediations, and standardizing asset naming, tagging, and organization on tens of millions in cloud spend.

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 by 60% and increasing the infrastructure Jira feature velocity by 100%.• 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 Jenkins-on-Fargate implementation to raise CICD pipeline reliability to 99%.• 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and secret key architecture for 30 APIs and microservices via AWS secret manager.• Migrated a mission-critical and outdated customer-facing, hand-rolled SFTP application to the AWS Transfer Family.• Maintained full-scale production of a Tableau cluster for an industry-leading Review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 self-service across the enterprise, garnering a measurable improvement in developer productivity and satisfaction.• Oversaw over 30 applications using cloud-native architecture, involving VPC, compute, serverless compute, queueing, database services, CDN, storage, observability, and monitoring; executed infrastructure deployment and incident management to achieve 99.99% uptime on four SLA-bound applications.• Led the organization through numerous disaster recovery and business continuity plan reviews with high-impact B2B API customers, such as CitiBank and Target.

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 and cloud accounts; closed two data centers in UK and eliminated five cloud accounts while maintaining security and compliance, reducing infrastructure spending by 20%.• 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 assets; reduced cloud spend by 25%. • 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 managed six people to undertake DevOps for all integrated applications, running agile ceremonies to prepare for operating both autonomously via Kanban and working inside matrix-based product teams.• 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 US to facilitate matrix-based contributions and run Agile ceremonies.• 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 develop and launch a geolocation data product for WordPress and over 10K websites.• 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 developments. • 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 for venture funding rounds and acquisitions. • 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 by 2,000%. • 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 campuses.• 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.