About me
I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with industry experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure. I have a strong background in software development, which allows me to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. I also bring a positive attitude and a collaborative spirit to every project. I can help you reduce infrastructure spend, ship faster and create a more productive developer experience! Outside of work you can find cooking up a storm in the kitchen, practicing yoga, and taking road trips with my wife and dog. I am currently looking for new full-time, contract or consulting opportunities so please reach out if you think I would be a good fit for your team!
Experience
Stateless Solutions
Sr. DevOps Engineer
June 2023 - October 2024
- Architected and orchestrated GCP infrastructure supporting 25M daily requests across two regions, encompassing IAM, service deployments, and organization-wide best practices for a 5-developer team.
Pocket Network
DevOps Engineer
February 2023 - July 2023
- Implemented the PosgresSQL database migration from AWS RDS to Google Cloud SQL, reducing costs by 10% and improving performance by 15%.
- Developed and tested Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments, including testing and documentation.
Pocket Network
Solutions Engineer
September 2022 - February 2023
- Engaged users, community members and partners via Discord and Telegram and collaborated with engineers to measure and reduced TTR on critical issues.
- Coordinated with 3rd parties to integrate Pocket Network into their applications, including documentation and support.
Grassroots Economics
Technical Lead
October 2020 - April 2022
- Launched a private custodial blockchain service that ran on USSD compatible devices, enabling 800+ users and 8,000+ transactions for unbankded populations across Kenya.
- Built and maintained the Kubernetes clusters with FluxCD for GitOps and the CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions.
- Coordinated an Agile team of 5 devs across several timezones and developed milestones and roadmaps for our funding partnerships.
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II
October 2018 - April 2020
- Owned frontend development for the Azure portal, rapidly mastering TypeScript and Knockout.js codebases. Collaborated cross-functionally with Design and Product Management teams to deliver a new UX for public preview release, meeting tight deadlines and enhancing user experience
- Developed the Azure Resource Management repository for the Azure Timeseries Insights team.
Education
University of Maine
Master of Science in Resource Economics and Policy
- My Masters thesis examined variance in land use patterns by private landowners across the urban to rural gradient.
- Econometrics I, Econometrics II, Advanced Biometry, Advanced Microeconomics, GIS issues in Policy.
Boise State University
Bachelor or Arts in Economics
- McNair Scholar
Projects
Certifications
Skills
Infrastructure
Blockchain
Configuration Management
Virtualization & Containers
CI/CD & SCM
Web & App Servers
Frameworks
Database Servers
Languages
Scripting & Shell
Cloud Providers
Operating Systems
Networking
Tools
Tools and software I use to build whatever I like