• Planned and executed infrastructure decisions related to managing AKS clusters in a cross-regional active-active architecture hosting 200+ micro-services, high availability and geo-redundancy of Azure resources, and reducing cloud spending• Led the design and implementation of a cross-regional Kafka disaster recovery strategy, leveraging Confluent Cloud Kafka and Confluent Replicator• Planned, coordinated, and developed tech designs for Java Spring Boot applications, Kafka Connectors, Kafka consumers, Kafka producers, Kafka Streams, and Function Apps, considering business requirements, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability• Proactively identified observability gaps in existing monitoring and alerting strategy and implemented new alerts for AKS, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Azure Data Factory, and Azure API Management• Maintained and upgraded infrastructure components, including AKS nodes, Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, Istio control plane and gateway, KEDA operator, Kafka Connect, Confluent Replicator, and Azure Data Factory self-hosted integration runtime• Identified significant cloud cost-saving opportunities and performed infrastructure capacity planning, resulting in purchasing Azure resource reservations, optimizing VM SKUs, right-sizing Kubernetes deployment resource requests and limits, and optimizing applications• Organized and presented widely-attended monthly internal education sessions on best system design and maintenance practices, platform capabilities, and commonly encountered issues in development and deployment of systems• Lead and coordinated Kafka schema review meetings for newly-created topic schemas, advising on Kafka application design considerations and establishing well-defined data contracts for newly-implemented producers and consumers

• Built and maintained Terraform infrastructure as code for Azure resources including Azure Kubernetes Service, storage accounts, Key Vault, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Data Factory, SQL Server• Developed Java Spring Boot Kafka consumers, producers, and Kafka Streams applications• Created infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards and alerts for proactively detecting performance degradation and failures, using Splunk and Dynatrace• Built and maintained Gitlab CI/CD templates, Azure DevOps CI/CD templates, and Helm charts used for application build, testing, security scanning, and deployment• Created templatized Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for standardized and governed SQL database changes, leveraging Liquibase change management• Maintained and built pipelines for managing Kafka topics, schemas, and consumer groups• Planned, deployed, and tested a self-hosted Kafka Connect cluster• Built CI/CD pipeline templates for deploying Kafka Connectors, contributed documentation of best practices for creating Connectors, and contributed documentation on architectural considerations when deciding to use Connectors• Planned, developed, and tested 10+ Kafka source and sink Connectors, migrating legacy systems and meeting new business requirements• Developed, tested, and deployed a custom stored procedure Kafka Connect plugin to execute database stored procedures from messages on a topic• Setup event-driven horizontal autoscaling based on consumer group lag for Kafka consumer applications deployed to Kubernetes, using KEDA• Deployed and managed Azure Data Factory and self-hosted integration runtime using Terraform• Developed and maintained Azure Function Apps and Logic Apps to automate platform maintenance activities

• Migrated emergency call handling Java micro-services to an event-driven architecture, using Kafka• Developed application testing ensuring low-latency and reliable operation during sustained load, traffic spikes, and Kafka consumer rebalancing• Created Elasticsearch watchers and Kibana dashboards for proactively identifying application failures• Built and maintained infrastructure maintenance scripts and Terraform infrastructure as code• Developed CI/CD pipeline templates for micro-service build, testing, security scanning, and deployment• Developed and maintained Java libraries and Python tools for monitoring, reporting, and enforcing FedRAMP security requirements

• Developed services using Node.js for managing ASTRO radio infrastructure data• Developed and designed user interface for an application used by field engineers to resolve ASTRO radio system security issues, using Typescript andAngular

Worked remotely 10-15 hours a week from school• Deployed internal fork of cert-manager and setup automatic renewal of TLS certificates• Developed Docker image repository automation tools, using Go• Contributed to infrastructure management Python and Bash scripts

• Contributed custom certificate issuer support for internal fork of cert-manager TLS certificate management system, using Go• Contributed to application deployment Jenkins pipelines