Lead officer responsible for successful inaugural SOC2 compliance certification, owning all technical policies, controls, workflows and engineering infrastructure.Primary solution architect responsible for the design, execution, and maintenance of all cloud and on-premise (air-gap) platform infrastructure including security hardening for multi-framework compliance and adherence to DoD CUI and higher data controls.Successfully planned and executed comprehensive security initiative to harden entire engineering SDLC, infrastructure, including container hardening, CVE management, audit and logging systems, penetration testing, and vulnerability and threat assessment, detection, and prevention systems and protocols.

Responsible for leading numerous high-risk and critical initiatives that include multi-cloud migrations (AWS, Azure, OCI), bare-metal application and platform porting for fully disconnected (air-gap) Federal use cases, and rearchitectures to migrate from legacy deployment architectures to fully orchestrated Kubernetes (AWS EKS) and container-based architectures.Proposed, designed, and led major application architecture refresh to move to a federated Kubernetes model utilizing both multi and hybrid cloud and on-premise peered clusters to optimize for cost, workload specializations (spot, preemptive, on-demand), and efficient dynamic resource scaling (k8s cluster-autoscaler) for ML (NVIDIA/GPU) and traditional workloads.

Succeeded in designing and building a scalable Kubernetes powered application platform featuring seamless integration of management tools and specialized customer-specific apps for both on-premise and cloud, and acquired a multi-year contract with the second largest global gold miner.+ Architected multiple micro-services-based, Kubernetes managed architectures to support modular, scalable application deployments and customized data workflows for specialized customer use cases

Responsible for transforming a raw but swiftly growing start-up from early validation phase infrastructure to a scalable, cloud-based (AWS), SAAS, full-stack application and data management platform to support a rapidly expanding, high product volume B2B client base.

Led a team of software engineers, application engineers, and systems engineers as part of a key initiative to introduce software focused disciplines to a traditional hardware centric organization and create an integrated software platform for a new “super-converged” server platform.

Led deployment architecture design and validation efforts with vertical partners and customers featuring a flash-based software defined memory solution to power in-memory and distributed computing platforms.

Specialized in the rapid design and prototyping of conceptual products and SAAS systems, cloud-migration initiatives, JIRA implementation and training, and vertical integration of disparate applications and tools.• Full stack design and development of back-end, front-end, UI, UX, and deployment of AWS cloud-based web applications and REST APIs for SMB clients• Accelerated product roadmaps through rapid prototype design and deployment of concept proofs and minimum viable products including Cordova based iOS and Android mobile apps

Organized and coordinated over 30 contributors across multiple orgs to finalize completion of massive, multi-year technical product integration initiative to merge Shopping.com and eBay, Inc. applications and infrastructure supporting $100MM+ of revenue

• Led migration to cloud computing environments; responsible for the company’s core product lines, over $4MM of total revenue.• Managed integration of data tracking and reporting products with client infrastructure and third party vendors• Drove design and development of new business intelligence platform and SAAS interface, including personal creation of ETL stored procedures and processes used to automate processing and migrating data to reporting systems• Managed key projects and RFPs, navigated financial crisis induced constraints, and played a major role establishing viability for subsequent acquisition by Irdeto, Inc.

• Managed data mining, analysis services, and security products, growing and overseeing a ten person staff while reporting directly to COO and serving as a primary escalation contact for largest client