DevOps and Platform Engineer with 6+ years building and operating secure, highly available Azure workloads. Own CI/CD pipelines and Terraform/Bicep infrastructure as code across multi-tenant production environments. Cut environment provisioning from multi-day manual builds to under 15 minutes and moved release cadence from weekly to daily. Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) and Certified Kubernetes Administrator, with deep networking, security, and systems administration fundamentals.
Experience
Jul 2020 – Present
DevOps Engineer IV, Professional Services
11:11 Systems (formerly Ntirety)
Support Specialist L1 → Systems Admin L2 → Azure Engineer L3 → Azure Consultant L4 → DevOps Engineer IV
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with DevSecOps controls including OIDC federated authentication, environment gating, and managed secrets, enabling safe, repeatable daily production releases.
- Author Terraform, Bicep, and ARM infrastructure as code for multi-tenant Azure environments, reducing environment provisioning from multi-day manual builds to under 15 minutes.
- Operate and optimize production Azure infrastructure for availability, performance, and security: AKS, Container Apps, App Services, VM Scale Set autoscale, API Management, and Azure SQL.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting on Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Datadog; reduced a client's Azure spend by over 50% through ingestion tuning, resource right-sizing, and reserved-instance planning.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for production escalations across multi-tenant environments, spanning network path, firewall, DNS, and application layers.
- Design secure high-availability network architectures using Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, WAF, Palo Alto and FortiGate NGFWs, private endpoints, and IPSec site-to-site VPN.
- Implement HA/DR with Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, and pipeline-driven VM recovery; migrated hundreds of VMs and applications into production Azure with near-zero downtime.
- Serve as technical owner for platform standards, collaborating asynchronously with developers, security, and product owners in a fully remote organization.
Jan 2026 – Present
Founder & Principal Engineer
KrakenKey LLC
- Build a TLS/SSL certificate lifecycle automation platform on a zero-knowledge architecture in which customer private keys never leave their own boundary.
- Develop the REST API backend in TypeScript/NestJS, a Terraform provider in Go, and a GitHub App and Action that issue and rotate certificates inside customer CI/CD pipelines.
- Design the agent protocol, data model, threat model, and Entra ID application credential rotation via Microsoft Graph; operate the platform's own build pipelines and secret management.
Skills
CI/CD
Cloud & IaC
Containers & Orchestration
Monitoring & Logging
Languages & Scripting
Networking, Security & Identity
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- CompTIA Cloud+, Linux+, Server+, Network+
- Zerto Certified Associate
Education
- B.S. Information Science, University of South Florida, 2021
Projects
- HomeLab Platform: Self-hosted Kubernetes platform running GitHub Actions and Terraform to exercise enterprise networking, CI/CD, and disaster-recovery patterns.