Experience.

Cloud Platform Engineering, Azure Infrastructure & AI Enablement

2023 – Present

• → Helped design and build a greenfield Azure cloud environment supporting AI/ML workloads, application deployments, and a large-scale migration from on-premises datacenter infrastructure to cloud-hosted platforms.
• → Developed secure, healthcare-regulated Azure infrastructure using Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Policy as Code, Packer, Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, and related tooling.
• → Provided subject-matter expertise, process consultation, mentoring, infrastructure guidance, and development and automation support across the organization.
• → Designed an Azure Policy as Code pipeline and supporting Terraform tooling spanning every resource and service in the Azure tenant.
• → Built a private image-bakery pipeline that provides golden base images for Linux and Windows virtual machines.
• → Deployed and secured a private container registry, including controlled image imports from public registries to enforce egress requirements.
• → Rolled out standard Terraform modules for private endpoint connectivity, private DNS zones and zone records, and VNet peering for a hub-and-spoke network topology.
• → Rolled out Azure Private DNS Resolver and ensured DNS propagation and bidirectional reachability between on-premises and Azure network environments.
• → Built reusable Azure Databricks workspace modules with private VNet injection, customer-managed keys, least-privilege RBAC, and enterprise data-platform security controls.
• → Built the Python module import, approval, and promotion pipeline for the enterprise Databricks environment, ensuring every workspace had required modules available even when disconnected from the internet.
• → Developed Azure Kubernetes Service Terraform modules with private VNet injection, customer-managed keys, least-privilege RBAC, restricted ingress and egress, and additional security controls.
• → Leading the onboarding of Palo Alto firewall rule management into Terraform, extending infrastructure-as-code discipline to the enterprise network and security perimeter in a HIPAA- and HITRUST-regulated environment.
• → Partnering with the IAM team to define an infrastructure-as-code and pipeline approach for the enterprise identity platform spanning Okta, Delinea, Active Directory, and Entra ID.
• → Developed a secure Azure AI Foundry platform and supporting AI infrastructure for developer coding agents, document search, and AI-assisted workflows.
• → Championed agentic AI development and developed a shared platform through which DevOps engineers can source and contribute agent context and skills.

Software Engineering, Release Automation & Developer Enablement

2018 – 2023

• → Contributed to the BeWell patient portal across Node.js microservices, .NET APIs, AngularJS frontends, CI/CD, and cloud delivery.
• → Built and improved release pipelines, deployment automation, and developer workflows.
• → Maintained and modernized enterprise Jenkins infrastructure, including Linux patching, RBAC, LDAP integration, plugin lifecycle management, and CI/CD support.
• → Championed container adoption and established Docker standards, configuration-as-code practices, and delivery automation.
• → Implemented Docker Compose build and release pipelines and a configuration-as-code platform.
• → Mentored engineers on software delivery lifecycle, CI/CD, automation, and platform engineering practices.

AWS Platform Engineering & Patient Portal Infrastructure

2016 – 2018

• → Developed Terraform modules and automation for public and internal AWS services supporting the BeWell patient portal's reliability, deployment, and maintainability.
• → Contributed to .NET APIs, Node.js microservices, and Angular frontends.
• → Improved reliability and redundancy through EC2 Auto Scaling, custom AMIs, and reusable infrastructure modules.
• → Owned Jenkins infrastructure and standardized build pipelines and artifact deployment across Premise engineering.
• → Built a configuration-as-code repository for all applications and the supporting pipeline and tooling, improving reliability and developer confidence.
• → Migrated AWS WAF protections to Akamai using DNS failover with zero downtime or client incidents.

Senior Developer

• → Developed features, resolved defects, and maintained backend services for a multi-tenant, AWS-hosted SEO platform.
• → Built full-stack PHP, MySQL, and Backbone.js capabilities for white-label and scheduled reporting, SEO analysis, email and mobile text campaigns, and client workflows.
• → Integrated Google search results, Google Ads, and other APIs for ranking, advertising, and SEO analysis.
• → Built background systems for site audits, scheduled data collection, reports, and campaigns.
• → Helped rewrite the large-scale Node.js crawler powering Site Auditor, improving scalability, performance, memory usage, and maintainability.
• → Supported development and delivery workflows using Jenkins, Vagrant, Chef, and Docker.

Lead Developer

• → Led the development team and delivered two full production rewrites of the flagship SaaS platform.
• → Debugged and rapidly iterated on production issues down to the functional code level, including remote incident support from outside the office during a site launch, using a homegrown benchmarking and profiling system to trace function calls and stack traces from the HTTP request through the database layer.
• → Delegated and supported delivery of video, online courses, social feeds, e-commerce, and mobile capabilities.
• → Designed and optimized MySQL indexes and foreign keys and established database backup and restoration practices.
• → Diagnosed and recovered a desynced five-node multi-master MySQL cluster from single-node backup during a live investor demo, restoring service in about ten minutes.
• → Diagnosed a multi-master primary-key collision-avoidance scheme causing per-insert key gaps, calculated remaining capacity against the integer primary key's bounds, and identified a future key-exhaustion risk before it caused an outage.
• → Planned and implemented the platform's migration to AWS.
• → Partnered with a third-party firm to deliver API integrations for iOS and Android applications.
• → Taught myself Python in a weekend to prototype a RESTful HTTP API layer and ORM around an autoscaled Riak database cluster.

Lead Application Developer

• → Built customizable web forms and landing pages with click and open tracking across print, email, and QR-code campaigns.
• → Rebuilt the internal job-tracking application using CakePHP and MySQL.
• → Maintained Linux systems and network services for uptime and secure access.

Programmer

• → Maintained and extended a PHP and MySQL SaaS platform used by K–12 educators globally.
• → Refactored application components for modularity, testability, and maintainability.

Programmer

• → Integrated a USB barcode scanner into a production data-entry workflow.
• → Built and maintained internal applications using Symfony, PHP, and MySQL.
• → Managed Linux servers, network services, and virtual machines.

Student Volunteer

• → Ran fiber-optic and Cat5 cabling and learned physical wiring patterns across campus network infrastructure.
• → Connected and maintained fiber-optic networking equipment.
• → Learned routing and switching topologies supporting the university's network infrastructure.