Own the technical direction and architectural evolution of platform and infrastructure systems supporting application and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Drive reliability and operational excellence across AWS environments through automation, service hardening, and continuous performance and cost optimization.
Design and implement secure AWS-native infrastructure and internal platform capabilities using Lambda, IAM, Secrets Manager, S3, and Route53.
Build and maintain CI/CD automation and GitHub Actions workflows that improve deployment safety, developer velocity, and release consistency across services.
Improve observability by defining and monitoring service health indicators, logs, and operational metrics to detect issues early and guide engineering priorities.
Strengthen security, compliance, and auditability by enforcing infrastructure standards, access controls, and repeatable operational processes across repositories and environments.
Contribute directly to Ruby on Rails, Go, and platform automation codebases to align application architecture with infrastructure and operational requirements.
Write RFCs, architecture proposals, and technical experiments to evaluate new approaches for scalability, maintainability, and platform evolution.
Review and approve pull requests across repositories, enforcing reliability, maintainability, and secure engineering practices.
Use AI and LLM tooling to streamline development workflows, and design multi-agent workflows that enable parallel execution across multiple codebases and engineering tasks.
Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, infrastructure best practices, operational excellence, and developer tooling.
Improved Kubernetes infrastructure reliability by identifying risks and implementing long-term mitigations.
Served as infrastructure stakeholder, influenced story breakdown, estimation, and delivery standards across engineering teams.
Modernized legacy applications through containerization and standardized Helm-based deployments.
Streamlined CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and custom Go tooling.
Maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
Built observability systems integrating Datadog and CloudWatch for full-stack monitoring.
Acted as GitHub administrator, improving repository governance and enforcing security guardrails.
Led critical development of a new MVP initiative under NDA, meeting tight deadlines by architecting scalable components in Scala.
Created system diagrams and technical flowcharts to align engineers and stakeholders around complex feature sets.
Modernized legacy systems by refactoring core logic and bridging integrations with current platforms.
Supported production readiness through regular code reviews, on-call participation, and timely hotfix delivery.
Maintained high code quality by enforcing documentation, automated tests, and peer-reviewed contributions.
Built secure, compliant microservices in Scala to support healthcare workflows in a regulated environment.
Developed and maintained RESTful APIs integrated with PostgreSQL for data consistency and reliability.
Used Splunk and Datadog to diagnose issues, optimize services, and ensure operational transparency.
Worked on a 24/7 live production system supporting state government clients, ensuring high availability and compliance through monitoring, on-call support, and incident response.
Improved software maintainability by writing robust unit tests and documenting legacy behavior for continuity.
Developed interactive game prototypes using Unity and C# to explore real-time user feedback and game mechanics.
Built experimental HCI projects using Arduino, P5.js, and Processing to combine physical interfaces with digital interaction.
Explored creative coding and media art by integrating MAX/MSP with sound, visuals, and user input.
Provided desktop support and A/V troubleshooting in educational settings, including setup, diagnostics, and user support.
Launched and managed 10+ business initiatives by conducting research, hiring staff, and scaling user growth across global markets.
Brought 10+ years of customer service experience across industries, with strong problem-solving skills.
Education & Certifications
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, in progress (remote part-time, expected 2030).
B.Tech. in Emerging Media Technology, CUNY New York City College of Technology, 2021.
A.A.S. in Music Production, CUNY Queensborough Community College, 2018.
Azure Fundamentals and Azure AI Fundamentals, Microsoft Learn, 2020.
A+ and CCNA coursework and certification track exposure, 2016.
Speaking & Community
Speaker, Intuit Open Source Meetup | Platform Engineering & AI (San Diego, April 2026):
Presented "What is Devbox and why you need it?" on reproducible developer environments, onboarding speed,
and CI consistency.
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Active in open source and engineering meetups across San Diego, Irvine, and Los Angeles.
Skills & Tools
Technical Skills
Kubernetes, kubectl, Docker, Helm, Terraform
Git, gh, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Automation
Scala, Golang, Bash, Scala.js, Python, Ruby on Rails