I lead a team of SWEs, Cloud Engineers, and architects, both scoping engagements, and delivering on them.We deliver engagements in the following areas:* Cloud Infrastructure & Application Migrations* CI/CD Tooling* AI Applications (e.g. ChatBots for various industries, many including RAG)* Data Analytics & Business Intelligence* DevOps Transformation* Custom Software Development* IT Strategy & Consulting

Longtime investors and operators building a coalition of enterprise software partners across ecosystems. Backed by The Pritzker Organization and other exceptional partners.

Advise on architecture and organizational patternsImplemented ADR (Architecture Decision Record) process for the engineering organizationExpert advice on event-based architecture, CI/CD best practices, cloud infrastructure managementHelped drive migration from EC2 to EKS (Kubernetes-based deployments)Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Vault, Kafka (Confluent Cloud)

Drive architecture process & engineering SDLC (technical strategy)Define product strategy and horizon 2-3 architecture plan to enable the business to successfully grow through the next 5 years.Due Diligence for multiple acquisitionsOwn Cloud Strategy, Google partner relationship, negotiated >$20M partnership with GoogleLed public cloud transformation and architecture shift to Google CloudFounded and led Developer Tooling (CI/CD, DevOps Tooling) teamLed migration from monolithic architecture to Kubernetes-based microservicesLed reliability initiative to move from ~99.5 to 99.9+Work within many parts of the Sauce Labs codebase, leading by both example and influenceTechnologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab, Terraform, Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, Kafka, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana

Architecture & strategy for PaaS deployment & usage best practices - Cloud Foundry, OpenStackBuilt pipeline as code capabilities, replacing manually built pipelines - improved pipeline performance >10xMentor 40+ teams moving applications & CI/CD pipelines to cloud services (GCP, Azure)Lead Infrastructure and CI/CD teams building mobile checkout/POS solutionRolled out Next-Gen POS system (iOS, Single-Page App, Microservices) to 7500+ stores

Team lead & product owner for an internal product team at Salesforce.Responsible for working with stakeholders & internal clients to define requirements for projects, prioritize, and work with engineers to deliver final product to requesting teams.Designed and built an 8,000sf data center, cut over a large environment to itLed team in architecture design, review, and implementation, working closely with management and project managers

Led a team of Linux systems engineers, acting as engineer, architect, and product owner.Worked with client teams to define requirements, architecture, and finally aid the team in delivering hundreds of development environments within SalesforceAutomated provisioning for both physical and virtual (VMware ESX, OpenStack) machines running RHEL4,5,6Developed an asset management system, allowing engineers, management, and procurement groups to track inventoryAssisted in triage for internal outages & performance issues

Support production sites for gap.com, oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, piperlime.comLed a team of 3 on-site engineers, acted as liaison to the NOC, and customer liaison betweer Gap and IPsoft, helping with architecture for Gap web sites & internal monitoring systems Systems and SAN administrationBuild and implement new monitoring system

Built a change control system from the ground upAutomated OS installation on a standard package setMaintain bare-metal and ESX server environment, as well as SANCompletely automated new ASP customer deployments, reducing a 60 minute procedure to <5 minutesHelped re-architect entire corp. and production network topology from a flat network to 40 VLANs, increasing stability and throughput

Maintain all prod and pre-prod Solaris hostsPart of a very active 3-person 24x7x365 pager rotationMaintain automated system build environmentMaintain enterprise LDAP systems for UNIX authenticationArchitect/Maintain HSM encryption appliance environmentManaged RAID arrays using Veritas and svm toolsetsMaintain monitoring environmentCreated a Linux Kickstart environment for RHEL4 POCAutomation of various tasks through Perl, bash, sed, awk, crontabDocumentation of new and existing processesSimple tasks on Cisco switches/routers (CatOS & IOS) and load balancers

Performed software QA testing for SFRAC ("Storage Foundations for Oracle RAC") Linux versions 4.1, 4.1MP1, 4.1MP2, and 5.0 on x86_64 and Itanium systemsBuilt a kickstart/AutoYAST OS install infrastructure to automate all operating system installsRacked and cabled new systemsManaged SAN infrastructure (Brocade)Wrote various test harnesses for installation of SFRAC and VCS (VERITAS Cluster Server)Performed manual installs of SFRAC and VCSInterviewed 50+ candidates as an expert UNIX system administrator

UNIX Administration:Maintained 25 Solaris/Linux/Windows serversWrote shell scripts in bash,php,perl to automate various tasksRacked/cabled servers in datacenterAdministered various Apache/Tomcat serversSet up MRTG to monitor Sun/Linux servers and Oracle DB'sBuilt Sun Ray servers, configured, developed custom template-based user creation scriptsDatabase Administration:Installed, tuned, maintained Oracle and MySQL databases on campusDeveloped complex SQL queries with a web front end to gather statistics from commercial OLTP applications, including PeopleSoft and BlackboardInstalled and configured Oracle HS to connect to DB2 through DB2Connect EE using ODBCManagement:Recruited, interviewed, and hired candidates for an IT positionHandled purchases of Sun and Linux systemsManaged Java application development for Blackboard projectManaged technical piece of SunRay project