Summary Senior Software & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience building resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure across clouds, on-premises, hybrid environments to air gap systems. Proven track record leading cloud migrations, Kubernetes adoption, DevSecOps transformations, and CI/CD automation for mission-critical platforms in aerospace, public safety, email, and enterprise SaaS. Trusted as a technical escalation point for high-stakes production systems. Passionate about automation, security, and mentoring teams to deliver faster and safer. Core Skills Cloud AWSAWS GovCloudAzureGCP Containers KubernetesRancher EKS/GKE/AKSK3sMicroK8sDockerPodmancontainerd IaC & Tooling Terraform/TofuHelmPackerAnsibleCloudFormationSaltStack GitLabGitHub Monitoring & Observability OpenSearch/ElasticsearchOpenTelemetry CloudWatchGrafanaPrometheusDatadogSplunkSigNoz Networking & Security IstioTailscaleFortinetF5CiscoPalo Alto AWS WAFRapid7NessusNmap OS Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian/Alpine)Windows Server (2003–2019, AD/Exchange/O365) Languages BashPythonGoPowerShellNode.jsSQL/NoSQL Protocols HTTP/STLS/SSLSSHSFTPSMTPSNMP DNSLDAPDHCPTCP/IPBGPVLAN Professional Experience DroneSense — Senior Software/DevOps Engineer Seattle, WA / Austin, TX | Feb 2022 – Present Mission-critical public safety SaaS platform used by first responders worldwide. • A lead for AWS infrastructure architecture across multiple regions/accounts for HA, security, and cost efficiency. • Migrate apps to Kubernetes (from Docker Compose), improving scalability and developer velocity. • Build custom Terraform modules & Helm charts; standardized IaC and deployments across environments. • Implemented DevSecOps: trivy, AWS Inspector, Harbor, kubescape, CIS-hardened AMIs. • Integrate GitOps pipelines with DB migration tests, image scanning, and approvals. • Harden security with WAF, restricted SGs, and Tailscale VPN. • OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch for observability across all domestic and internal environments. • Integrate SQL migrations into pipeline. • Led .NET 8 upgrade across all environments with minimal downtime. • Cross-functional collaboration with execs, architects and dev teams. • Final technical escalation point for high-impact production issues. Base2 Solutions / Belcan (Blue Origin Contract) — Senior DevOps Engineer Seattle, WA | May 2020 – Feb 2022 • Architected & deployed GitLab Enterprise on AWS GovCloud (Terraform + Ansible) for NASA HLS program. • Delivered resilient infra for avionics simulations & compute-heavy workloads. • Mentored Blue Origin SREs; led reviews and automation best practices. • Automated CI/CD, backups, image scanning, and compliant IaC deployments. • Built secret-management tooling and policy-based DevSecOps pipelines. • Containerized internal apps; migrated clusters to EKS; optimized multi-stage builds. POP / WordFly — Senior Systems Administrator Seattle, WA | May 2016 – Apr 2020 • Managed 24/7 SaaS across multi-cloud and two private datacenters. • Led hybrid cloud and datacenter migration strategy; reduced costs via forecasting & automation. • Teraform to manage multi-cloud including on-premises resources. • Deployed Kubernetes & Terraform for scalable environments. • Automated deployments/config with SaltStack • Built custom Python/Shell tools for automation/monitoring/reporting. • Built internal comms web app integrating Slack/email/SMS. iSigma — Network/System Engineer Norcross, GA / Seattle, WA | May 2014 – Mar 2016 • Deployed first AWS instances for client workloads (10M-user billing app). • Introduced GitHub + CI/CD pipelines. • Administered SQL Server, Hadoop, Cisco ASA firewalls, and DR systems. Classic Home — IT Consultant Vernon, CA / Atlanta, GA | Jan 2013 – May 2014 • Ran IT for nationwide trade shows: servers, networks, VPNs. • Migrated to Fortinet, cutting costs and improving reliability.