Provided consulting and drove the technical win for >$5MM of Tanzu ARR and Services contracts in the US Public Sector.

• Guided the creation of a Platform Engineering center of excellence for a major program within the US Department of Defense.
• Guided several engineering teams within the US Government on developing faster paths to production and more secure software supply chains.

Executed and led consulting engagements focused on Kubernetes enablement and modern application development upskilling.

• Paired with several application teams at a large national retailer to reduce deployment times by as much as 40% while migrating to OpenShift and improving codebase test coverage and release safety.
• Architected a comprehensive, 70+ point framework for assessing DevOps and SRE capabilties at enterprise customers that reduced Platform Services onboarding by several weeks.
• Designed and built a Cloud Foundry-like and Kubernetes-agnostic developer platform in Bash that enabled developers within the US Government to go from idea to production on their own Kubernetes clusters with a single manifest file in minutes.

Consulted engineering leaders at Fortune 100s on migrating and rearchitecting mission-critical applications into Azure.

• Served as a principal consultant for a large retail provider through their migration onto Azure Kubernetes Service from OpenShift.
• Conducted design sessions and discovery workshops for onboarding applications being refactored to cloud-native designs.
• Reduced deployment time of the company’s leading Landing Zone service by 40% through automation and authoring additional tooling.

Executed and led small consulting teams in helping the world’s most highly-regulated organizations embrace DevOps, upskill engineering capabilities and ship customer value faster and easier.

• Lead several engagements for quickly enabling and upskilling large development teams on foundational DevOps and Reliability Engineering topics.
• Specialized in reducing deployment times into production environments by up to 2000% at large and heavily-regulated enterprises within the FSI and Retail sectors.
• Expanded the business into US Central and West regions through proposals, SoW generation, discovery workshops and pre-sales efforts (blogs and conference talks).
• Grew senior consultants into Techncial Principals through coaching and mentorship.

Built tools and automations for developer platforms and provided thought leadership on DevOps talking points through blogs, workshops and talks.

• Architected and successfully delivered a proof-of-concept of automated infrastructure deployment as code using Terraform and Chef for a large multi-national credit lending company.
• Implemented a development team environment creation pipeline using Puppet, Ruby and vRealize Operations that eliminated two weeks from a leading nationwide mortgage broker’s production release process.
• Architected a containerized platform underlying a highly-efficient claims processing engine for a large, statewide insurance firm using Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker and VMware ESX/vSphere.
• Created hiring and recruiting standards for the Infrastructure/DevOps Engineering position for ThoughtWorks nationwide.

• 2016: Namely - SRE for Namely Payroll. Maintained 99.5% uptime. Built automation to create multi-region Active Directory forests for testing AD SAML auth with third-party benefits providers.
• 2015: Google - SRE for Corp Eng Managed Systems. Built a Kerberized command execution sandbox for multi-thousand Windows server fleet across Google X and acquired entities to reduce team toil by 60%.
• 2014: Two Sigma - Improved effiency of new hire onboarding and terminations by >30% by implementing a pluggable, Powershell-based employee management workflow engine. Designed and led a proof-of-concept of Citrix XenDesktop VDIs for trading.
• 2012: Jane Street - Architected and built an in-house configuration management platform for kickstarting and provisioning Windows servers from power-on using PowerShell and F#. Provided advanced support for homegrown Excel Add-ons used for $USD billions of daily order flow.
• 2008: - Optimized in-house scripts that improved provisioning and decommissioning speed of Dell and HP Windows servers worldwide by over 40%. Wrote scripts and other automation to improve file server migration reliability.

• 2018: DevOps Fundamentals: Your First Project
• 2021: Kubernetes: Your First Project
• 2022: Learning Docker
• 2023: Docker Essential Training
• 2023: Kubernetes Provisioning for Infrastructure As Code