Professional Experience
Systems Development Engineer II
September 2026 – Present
- Architect and deploy scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using AWS CDK and CloudFormation to modernize security infrastructure across Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) regions.
- Design and implement robust automation workflows, operational tooling, and internal services to streamline security operations and eliminate manual maintenance toil.
- Enhance and scale core security services protecting mission-critical government and sovereign cloud partitions, ensuring strict compliance with high-assurance standards.
- Partner across ADC engineering teams to develop automated deployment pipelines, monitors, and self-healing systems.
Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer II
August 2024 – September 2026
- Architect, deploy, and maintain mission-critical AWS infrastructure across government-dedicated partitions, ensuring seamless integration between cloud and on-premises environments.
- Implement a cross-domain alarm synchronization framework in TypeScript and Java across more than 50 distinct services, ensuring real-time status alerts mirror flawlessly between highside and lowside environments.
- Build advanced security automation workflows and conduct rigorous technical compliance reviews to align large-scale deployments with strict government security benchmarks.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architectures using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, including custom automated patching pipelines for EC2 and EMR clusters.
- Foster engineering excellence by facilitating technical training and hands-on mentorship for junior team members.
Systems Engineer II – S3
January 2021 – August 2024
- Practiced strict DevOps methodologies to automate infrastructure orchestration and region build-outs utilizing Python, TypeScript, and Ruby.
- Designed and executed an automated filesystem cleanup and fleet maintenance system that successfully reclaimed an average of 8 engineering hours per month.
- Investigated global system variances and service interdependencies across complex configurations, resolving high-severity anomalies before customer impact.
Support Engineer IV – S3
April 2019 – April 2021
- Built production-ready scripts for automated risk mitigation and redundant task elimination, ensuring operational efficiency for core S3 architectures.
Cyber Security Analyst
February 2016 – March 2019
- Performed comprehensive network and host traffic diagnostics using advanced monitoring tools (Splunk, Wireshark, QRadar) to isolate signature-related anomalies and IOCs.
- Designed and deployed custom internal traffic evaluation utilities, streamlining incident response timelines and providing stakeholders with crisp technical analytics.
Senior Storage / UNIX Engineer
October 2005 – March 2019
- Directed operational support, security patching, and configurations for a global storage environment spanning 100+ Petabytes and 300+ appliances.
- Managed a diverse infrastructure footprint of 2,000+ servers, utilizing custom Bash tools to automate OS hardening and backup verification.
Projects & Labs
Home Laboratory Infrastructure
Personal Infrastructure
- Engineered a robust home infrastructure combining Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters managed via automated Jenkins CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Orchestrate production-ready pods hosting self-contained cloud services (Nextcloud), Git source control (Gitea), and comprehensive Prometheus/Grafana analytics.