> summary

Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on building and maintaining scalable, resilient infrastructure that allows developers to move fast without breaking things. I advocate for eliminating operational toil through IaC and observability. Expert in the HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault) and cloud-native technologies with over 10 years of experience in platform resiliency.

> skills

• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Terraform, Ansible, Nomad, Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, Vault, Traefik
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, OCI, GCP
• Databases: Aurora / RDS, Cassandra, CockroachDB, PostgreSQL
• Programming: Go, Python, Bash
• Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

> experience

HashiCorp / IBM | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Dec 2021 – Present

• Designing and implementing Blue/Green deployment architecture for Traefik, eliminating downtime during load balancer configuration changes.
• Led DR initiative delivering automated failover/failback for Aurora Global and Replicated Vault across two AWS regions, significantly reducing RTO for critical platform infrastructure.
• Overhauled observability for Nomad, Consul, and Vault – built Datadog dashboards, closed monitoring gaps, and defined SLOs that materially reduced MTTR and improved on-call response times.
• Contributed to a custom Go-based cluster lifecycle tool automating rolling node replacement for Vault, using autopilot state and health APIs to safely quiesce nodes before ASG termination for zero-downtime maintenance.
• Migrated legacy Bash configuration to modular Ansible, eliminating toil and reducing operational overhead across the platform team.

Capital One | Principal Software Engineer | Jun 2019 – Dec 2021

• Led infrastructure automation for DataStax Cassandra and Ops Center. Built reusable automation frameworks using AWS, Terraform, Ansible, and Python that simplified Cassandra cluster provisioning, recovery, and self-healing, reducing manual operational work for multiple teams. Drove adoption of infrastructure automation standards across engineering organization.

Capital One | Senior Software Engineer | Mar 2018 – Jun 2019

• Built infrastructure automation for multi-region self-hosted CockroachDB on AWS.
• Developed container deployment automation for Nomad, standardizing release processes and reducing manual deployment overhead.

AddThis / Oracle Data Cloud | Senior Systems Engineer | Jan 2016 – Mar 2018

• Managed infra automation for hundreds of servers in our datacenter in two regions, using Chef, test kitchen, kickstart, cobbler, and custom Python tooling.
• Administered and built automation for database systems like MySQL and Cassandra.
• Built automation for migrating our services out of legacy datacenters and into Oracle Cloud.

Amazon Web Services | Systems Engineer | Mar 2015 – Jan 2016

• Automated provisioning and scaling of DNS resolver fleets for AWS EC2 using Ruby and CloudFormation.
• Deployed canary monitoring to track resolver health from customer perspective, enabling proactive issue detection.
• Fulfilled high-severity on-call rotations for critical DNS infrastructure.

MicroStrategy | Systems Engineer | Mar 2014 – Mar 2015

• Built infrastructure automation using Puppet and Bash to support two engineering teams.
• Provisioned and maintained customer environments across AWS and on-premises datacenters.
• Automated release deployment pipelines across testing and production environments.
• Managed Linux web servers (Tomcat, Apache) and MySQL databases.

Pixar Animation Studios | Unix System Administrator | May 2010 – Jul 2013

• Led migration of production data from NetApp to Isilon OneFS, coordinating across multiple teams to ensure service continuity.
• Managed high-performance Isilon storage clusters supporting visual effects production workflows. Scaled storage infrastructure from terabytes to petabytes and performed operating system upgrades with zero downtime.

Hammerhead Productions | Unix System Administrator | Nov 2005 – Apr 2010

• Provisioned fleets of Linux servers for 2D and 3D rendering pipelines, managed HPC storage infrastructure (Isilon, SGI, custom RAID) supporting visual effects and CGI rendering workflows.
• Scripted automation for job submission to visual effects and 3D rendering pipelines.

> education

Florida State University – Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Film Production