Experience

20+ years of technology leadership, from software development to site reliability engineering across 800+ account AWS organizations.

Current Role

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Centene Corporation Remote Aug 2024 - Present

Leading cloud enablement initiatives across hundreds of AWS accounts for a Fortune 23 healthcare company serving 50,000+ employees and 200+ engineering teams. Building scalable automation tools that improve governance while enabling team productivity.

Signature Achievement: AWS Technical Debt Analysis Platform

The Challenge

Engineering teams across 50+ AWS accounts lacked visibility into resource utilization, compliance gaps, and cost optimization opportunities. Manual auditing was impossible at scale.

My Approach

Architected a comprehensive Python/PostgreSQL platform that automatically scans AWS accounts and inventories all resources with operational characteristics, cost data, and compliance findings. Used a single-table design with dynamic views for sub-100ms query performance.

Results & Impact
  • Discovered orphaned resources previously undocumented, saving ongoing costs
  • Identified improper tagging and clickops-created resources affecting governance
  • Automated Trusted Advisor summaries in tabular format for team convenience
  • Enabled granular spend analysis by resource type with 3-month historical trends
  • Built extensible architecture for adding new resource types and compliance checks

Additional Contributions

  • CloudWatch Alarming Automation: Reduced monitoring setup from weeks to days with hierarchical CSV-based configuration supporting team, environment, and resource-specific overrides
  • Sensitive Data Detection: Implemented automated pattern matching for CloudWatch logs using regex taxonomy classification
  • Team Enablement: Serve as AWS architecture expert for 20-person engineering team, mentoring on Well-Architected principles

Recent Experience (2019-2024)

Site Reliability Engineer

Smartly (via acquisition) Mar 2022 - Nov 2023

Infrastructure Modernization Lead: Guided AI-focused engineering teams through migration from Elastic Beanstalk to containerized microservices architecture.

  • Performance Optimization: Improved global response times 50-80% through CloudFront optimization, RUM analysis, and PostgreSQL tuning
  • Architecture Migration: Led transition to Lambda, ECS, EKS reducing costs and operational overhead
  • Observability Framework: Built comprehensive monitoring using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing

Site Reliability Engineer

TalentReef Nov 2019 - Mar 2022

Observability Platform Architect: Designed end-to-end monitoring solution for pre-IPO HR SaaS platform serving enterprise clients.

  • Splunk Administration: Built and maintained on-premises cluster with consolidated operational dashboards
  • Synthetic Monitoring: Created BDD-based framework for automated production testing every 10 minutes
  • Incident Response: Established structured logging standards and notification architecture using SNS/Lambda

Philosophy & Approach

AI-Enhanced Delivery

Using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and targeted LLM workflows to compress weeks of work into days. This website and its supporting AWS infrastructure were designed and implemented in 3 months by one person — work that typically involves multiple specialists (infra, frontend, CI/CD).

Foundational Thinking

Focus on building solutions that anticipate future needs. Design for metadata inclusion, extensibility, and operational simplicity. Small foundational decisions compound into significant long-term value.

Show Don't Tell

Demonstrate capability through actual solutions rather than claims. Every project in my portfolio is live, functional, and publicly available with source code you can inspect.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Impact & Scale

800+
AWS Accounts in a Single Org
10+
Engineering Teams Enabled
40+
Accounts Analyzed in Depth