Built core platform infrastructure for financial services application partnered with Walmart. Utilized Kafka as a message broker to facilitate an event-driven architecture.Tech Stack: AWS, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Hashicorp Vault, TypeScript, Go, DDD/CQRS, Eventing

I managed the DevSecOps department at Azlo. Our mission was to foster a healthy relationship between engineers and the complex, distributed systems they run their code on. We help develop processes and workflows that enable engineers to move quickly while ensuring that operational expenses are kept to a minimum and security is maintained at the highest levels.DSO utilizes Kubernetes to orchestrate dozens of microservices across multiple fault and security domains. These services are monitored in real-time and provide metrics to engineering teams to provide insight during their iteration cycles.The DSO team's hard work can be seen in the hundreds of thousands of containers we build and deploy each week or the continuous delivery of pipelines deployed by product owners and engineers at the push of a button.BBVA sold Azlo to PNC in January of 2021, and I remained as the closing engineering staff.

Trained developers and engineers on current industry best practices and new techniques.Migrated single instance Gitlab server to full kubernetes-native deployment with on-demand CI/CD runners.Assisted in the creation of automated pipelines for multiple microservices using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines. Created Progressive Deployment workflow using Flux to manage the automated deployment of helm charts to EKS clusters within AWS.Deployed Kafka clusters with CDC stream connectors into MongoDB for realtime data modeling workflows provided to the data science team.Deployed Tableau for data science to provide up-to-date and business critical metrics to stakeholders.

I worked with the Connected Product team to optimize and deliver a 2D identification system for Nike products using AWS native technologies. The native stack included AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB to provide customer scanning and lookup capabilities.

I Managed and deployed Kubernetes (k8s) clusters, administered CI/CD pipelines for developers ensuring complete Continuous Integration and deployments.Used Terraform to manage infrastructure in AWS and GCP.

Developed front-end web applications using Rails and Javascript/React.Consulted on Solr cluster deprecation and migration.

I helped deploy and manage over 200 retail locations and their associated hardware infrastructure. All management was done remotely using Microsoft Systems Center and it's associated products.Managed over 10,000 virtual machines deployed across all locations.

MyRedis was a SaaS product delivering highly-scalable, instantly-deployed Redis database instances. At it's peak, MyRedis had over 500 Terabytes of in-memory Redis instances under management.MyRedis was purchased by Garantia Data and integrated into their wide-range of Redis based products. Grantia Data would later move on to become Redis Labs, the home of Redis and it's founder, Salvatore Sanfilippo.

I managed the entire infrastructure for the video game Minecraft's community. This included both the official forums (minecraftforum.net) and wiki (minecraftwiki.net).During my time maintaining the infrastructure we experienced a doubling of traffic every week for 8 weeks straight (100Mbps -> 200Mbps -> 400Mbps -> 800Mbps...etc).We accomplished 5 9's uptime by utilizing Highly Available industry techniques and tools.