2023 - Present: Innovating with AI and Personal Projects
Project Vigor – built a chat‑driven AI coach that transforms personal goals into step‑by‑step schedules.
Shipped several LLM‑powered tools, including a Slackbot for CloudWatch insights and a web‑based coloring‑book generator.
Mentor engineers on reliability, scalability, and rapid experimentation, spreading best practices across multiple teams.
2018 - 2024: Mastering SRE and Platform Engineering
Led a lean SRE team managing 10+ products with 24×7 on‑call, maintaining 99.95% uptime and cutting MTTR by 40%.
Architected a self‑service PaaS on AWS, reducing deployment times from hours to minutes and trimming cloud costs by ~25%.
Designed a global SEG validation framework that ran across 12 AWS regions and 100+ domains, powered by distributed neural networks.
Delivered secure, scalable cloud architectures for multiple clients, specializing in active‑active and active‑passive global deployments.
2017 - 2020: Scaling Systems & Leadership
Built and led a growth‑focused sales‑engineering practice serving finance and energy sectors, shrinking proof‑of‑value cycles from weeks to days.
As Chief of Analytics, architected an ad‑tech platform ingesting 350 M geospatial‑temporal records per day and a 250 TB custom index for under $5K/month.
Guided cross‑functional teams through rapid prototyping, turning data insights into customer‑facing features at startup speed.
2015 - 2017: Pioneering in Product Development
Fostered a culture of experimentation and data‑driven decisions as VP of Engineering, doubling release cadence in six months.
Designed and launched a cloud analytics platform processing multi‑source datasets at scale, reducing query latency by 80%.
2011 - 2015: Expanding Horizons in Technology
Designed and deployed a multi‑INT web toolkit that automated complex workflows, scaling from zero to 5,000+ users and cutting analysis time by 70%.
Led big‑data solutions using Hadoop/Solr stacks to support global military and intelligence missions.
2006 - 2011: Building Engineering Foundations
Honed software and analytical skills as a USAF linguist and intelligence analyst, delivering mission‑critical insights under pressure.
Pioneered a data‑fusion technique later adopted across the unit, transforming a proof‑of‑concept into an operational capability.