Managed all technology projects, people and process at Level including software development, Infrastructure, IT and InfoSec. Built the engineering philosophy, strategy and directed software architecture. Hiring, 1:1s, mentoring, team development, near shore contracting, career development, etc. Supported legacy product, while building out our next-gen system including ledger, transactions and purchasing; plans, accounts and intelligence. AWS, GCP, BigQuery, Golang, gRPC, Protobuf, React, K8s, Terraform. Apple/OSX, MDM, JAMF, GSuite, Slack, ZoomVanta, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA

Manage the Platform Engineering division at Built. Infrastructure, SRE, Integrations, Dev Experience and Platform Services teams. Helping to build the foundation and services Built needs to make great products for our customers.Infrastructure/SRE/DevEx - KTLO support for current infrastructure while responsible for the transition from ECS to K8s. Acts as InfoSec/AppSec/DevSecOps liaison with the VP of InfoSec. Consults with IT teams on internal infrastructure and IAM support. Owned billing and financial reporting for cloud hosting (COGS vs R&D, etc)Integrations - Bank cores for Lender integrations into our product. ERP support and IPaaS for non-lender integrationsPlatform Services - Help build out teams and plan work for core platform services work: Auth, Authz, File, Search services. Python/FastAPI, Node/Next.js, AWS, ECS, K8s, Crossplane, Ubiquiti, Workauto, microservices, Cisco/Meraki

Managed all technology projects, people and process. Hiring, 1:1s, mentoring, team development. Helped build out both product and development teams and agile/product processes. Built out both the DevOps and IT teams to support software development and the company as a whole. Supported and enhanced legacy product, while built out new foundations for next-gen product.AWS, PHP/MySQL, Node.js/Nest.js, ECS, Javascript, Vue.js, Apple/OSX, Mobile Device Management, Office365, Sophos, Slack, Zoom

Managed engineering projects, people and process at KazooHR. Hiring, 1:1s, mentoring, team development. Developed roadmaps and coordinated sprint / kanban work. Representative to C-suite. Coordinated IT, Infrastructure and Engineering work resulting from Vista Equity buyout of YouEarnedIt and the subsequent purchase of Highground - rebranded as Kazoo.SRE TeamHelped developer teams learn infrastructure / monitoring. Transitioned from basic InfraOps to SRE. Executed cloud migration plans. Team mascot: WD-40 (helping our devs be faster and better) Coordinated building of PaaS using K8s and Spinnaker for all apps. Unified build and deployment practices, CI and CD across the org. Worked to reduce overall cloud spend, while scaling the apps and infrastructure.AWS, GCP, Ruby/Rails, Node.js (MEAN/MERN), K8s, Docker, ECS, Javascript, React, AngularInfoSec TeamWorked with development teams to learn InfoSec responsibilities, tools and helped establish a secure SDLC. Coordinated SOC2 controls and audits (Type 1 and Type 2) within the company. Ran the InfoSec Risk Assessment Committee. Coordinated with 3rd party vendors for pentests, and audits. Coordinated sales prospect RFP responses and customer questionnaires / audits.IT TeamManaged all company-wide internal technology solutions. Executing and reported on SOC2 controls. Built and scaled office networks in multiple locations. Established IT policies and procedures. Coordinated IT hardware/ software management rollout. Established measures to reduce overall IT spend while increasing security and management capabilities.Apple/OSX, JAMF, GSuite, Sophos, Okta, Ubiquiti, Slack, ZoomIntegrations Software Development TeamManaged all 3rd party integrations for customer facing applications. Worked closely with the Product and QA teams on overall SDLC: requirements, estimates, sprints, scrum methodology, testing, etc.

Hired to build and scale the platform and the team. Migration from EngineYard to AWS. Dockerized the Rails application and moved it to AWS. Logging, Monitoring and Alerting overhaul. Built out CI/CD pipelines.Terraform, Ansible, AWS, ALB/ELB, VPC, EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, CodeBuild, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis / Memcached, DataDog

CTO for automotive IoT startup. Engineering development, direction and architecture. Wrote the backend cloud software for IoT devices to push data to. Coordinated with offshore hardware development teams to build custom firmware for our product.Ruby/Rails, AWS, ECS, Docker, RUnit, RubyGems

Built-out internal teams of engineers that build and maintain shared engineering org tooling. Helped with everything in the SDLC from initial commit to production deploy. Managed teams that focused on building our internal PaaS, maintaining our CI pipeline and helping keep the build times low. Ran internal SWAT team that focused on developer productivity. Ruby/Rails, Go, AWS, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git

Worked to help the Infrastructure team scale our application - one of the largest rails applications in production (size of codebase & infrastructure scale) Helped move the team to a new configuration management product (Ansible) Trained developers and other team members on it. Helped to establish baseline requirements for our AWS infrastructure. Worked to implement Terraform for cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code.AWS, Linux, Puppet, Git, Ruby, Rails, Postgres, RDS, ELB, EC2, S3, Route53, MySQL, Sinatra, Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, Git, Gerrit, Ansible, Packer. Docker, Jenkins, CloudFormation, Git, Gerrit, Nginx

Coordinated all DevOps and IT work at iMemories. Started and then built-out the infrastructure team. Built-out multi-petabyte datacenter including several 100+TB Lustre and Gluster filesystems with configuration management and Brocade switching. Wrote and maintained an internal Rails apps to help debug and manage workflow system. Setup and deployed Linux desktops for operations (40+ systems) Ran KVM servers for development virtual machines. Maintained 300+ servers (virtual and real) and 60+ Mac and Linux desktops. Built custom "hackintoshes" for legacy bespoke Mac software. Coordinated deployments and releases. Ensure code and data had proper backups and recovery.NFS, Samba, Lustre, Gluster, Ubuntu, CentOS, Puppet, Brocade, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, OpenVPN, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL

Software development and IT consulting shop. Developed custom web applications using Ruby/Rails and helped with IT infrastructure needs (specializing in Linux)

Worked with software support group in releasing system-critical code to production environments. Supported development and test environments. Setup and maintained web application servers. (Linux, JBoss, Weblogic)Recommended and then lead the release team's tool-set migration from old shell scripts to a more robust and flexible, scripting language. Upon manager's recommendation, promoted to Senior Systems Administrator because of system configuration and management skill-set. Built custom tools for the team in Java and Ruby/Rails.WebLogic Administrator Certified

Successfully managed the launch of the Flying J branded, Sprint MNVO cellphone product. Coordinated engineering and integration efforts across teams within Flying J, Sprint and Telcordia.

Engineering lead for Flying J's truckstop WiFi Internet Service Provider product. Designed and built application for the truckstop WiFi ISP including login, account management and credit-card purchase screens. Ensured site security and scaling abilities. Helped run code auditing with the engineering team. Ensuring repos are properly being used and code is secure. Principal developer for application code rewrite after core issues surfaced. Successfully rolled out the new system with an improved web-framework and only minimal, non-critical bugs. Increased WiFi ISP revenue 400-500% and dramatically expanded the userbase - a turn around in less than one year.

Provided high-level technical support to admins for an enterprise-wide campus web content management system. () Designed and maintained website for tracking internal test systems. Built tools for debugging client network issues and and wrote scripts to test for e-mail server relaying.Solaris, Java, Oracle, LDAP, Courier IMAP, Linux

Configured and released code to production web application servers for financial institutions. Wrote policies, best practices and and security white papers and Security Lead for department. Taught internal training course on Unix. Designed and wrote department website for internal knowledge baseSolaris, Weblogic, WebSphere, Java, JSP, Apache, Tomcat, Windows NT, IIS, ServetExec, MSSQL

Wrote and maintained financial institution websites. Selected for special coding team to go on location in Puerto Rico to work on-site. Worked with NT Release team to administer Windows servers. Designed and wrote department website for internal knowledge base.JSP, Java servlets, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash

Built Honors and Humanities Department websites. Consulted with director of departments on tech-education purchases and provided IT support to department.Wrote technical white papers including an in-depth technical evaluation of the college's website with suggested improvements including proper branding and common UI/UX elements.

Built and operated the first local ISP in the city. Developed and maintained company website. Registration and setup of hosted domains. Built and serviced networks for local businesses and residences. Sold hardware and software. Wrote and instructed basic internet skills course for local community.Windows 3.11/NT, Cisco, Dial-Up Networking