Summary

Results-driven DevOps & Infrastructure Leader with 15+ years building, scaling, and securing cloud-native systems. Proficient in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and compliance for SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST. Adept at mentoring teams, automating deployments, and enforcing best practices across production infrastructure.

Professional Experience

Latent Health
Principal SRE / Security Engineer
Remote • June 2024 – March 2025
  • Architected and maintained secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform with isolated prod/dev environments
  • Led SOC 2 readiness efforts including IAM hardening, audit logging, and secure deployment practices
  • Deployed and maintained observability stack (Prometheus Operator, Grafana, Alertmanager, Karma)
  • Integrated PagerDuty with alerting stack to support incident response workflows
  • Implemented GitOps deployment pipelines with ArgoCD across multiple clusters
  • Developed secure Python-based utilities for encryption/decryption of secrets, leveraging Infisical APIs and integrations across CI/CD and runtime environments
  • Created reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure across services
F5 Networks
Principal SRE
San Jose, CA (Hybrid) • June 2022 – November 2023
  • Spearheaded Kubernetes-based PaaS implementation for large-scale national service provider
  • Integrated CRDs and enhanced functionality for secure FedRAMP-targeted platforms
  • Led platform security scanning (OSCAP) to align with NIS 1 & 2 standards
  • Authored internal documentation for cross-team onboarding and vendor access
  • Provided on-call support for 150+ microservices across multiple Kubernetes platforms
  • Acted as U.S. team lead within global SRE organization and mentored new hires
Domino Data Lab
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA (Remote) • April 2021 – May 2022
  • Co-led development of internal x2go-based remote dev environments on AWS EKS
  • Automated deployments and configuration via Terraform, Ansible, Helm
  • Mentored engineers on infrastructure troubleshooting and automation best practices
  • Drove reliability and performance improvements for internal dev-prod workflows
Apple (via Infosys)
Principal DevOps Engineer
San Jose, CA (Remote) • April 2020 – March 2021
  • Migrated 30+ applications from on-prem to AWS (EKS, Docker, Concourse)
  • Created and maintained Jenkins and Concourse pipelines with YAML-based job configs
  • Standardized CI/CD practices to reduce onboarding time for new teams
  • Built custom Bash and Docker automation for application delivery
  • Collaborated closely with app teams to embed DevOps practices into dev lifecycles
Ditto Technologies
Principal DevOps Engineer
Oakland, CA (Remote) • July 2018 – January 2020
  • Introduced Terraform for AWS infrastructure management and state tracking
  • Overhauled network design to emphasize private networking for security
  • Designed and maintained AMI imaging process to simplify environment provisioning
  • Built Jenkins pipelines for Dockerized Python applications
  • Advised engineers on automation, monitoring, and deployment best practices
Apixio
DevOps Architect
San Mateo, CA (Remote) • September 2016 – July 2018
  • Rebuilt automation framework using Ansible and custom deployment state tracking
  • Created internal self-service tooling with Python and Bash
  • Deployed and maintained Vault, Consul, and Packer-based infrastructure
  • Supported multiple VPCs and application teams with shared secure platform design
  • Reduced CI/CD build times by 60% through pipeline refactoring and caching

Earlier Experience (2005–2016)

Roles held:

DevOps Lead, Systems Engineer, DevOps Architect, Infrastructure Manager

Companies:

TwinPrime, Twelvefold, Quantifind, Sequent Software, Transpera, CipherTrust, VeriCenter

Key Achievements:
  • Architected and migrated legacy stacks to AWS and hybrid-cloud platforms
  • Built early CI/CD and monitoring stacks using Jenkins, Nagios, and custom tooling
  • Automated bare-metal and virtual infrastructure using PXE, Kickstart, and config management
  • Led network redesigns and monitoring deployments across data centers and cloud providers

Core Competencies

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, Route 53, ECR, VPC, Certificate Manager, CloudWatch)

IaC & Automation

Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Packer, GitOps (ArgoCD)

CI/CD

Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Concourse, custom pipelines

Containers

Kubernetes, Docker, Podman

Monitoring & Alerting

Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Karma, PagerDuty

Security & Compliance

SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, FedRAMP-aligned practices, IAM, KMS, Vault, Infisical, AWS Secrets Manager, Vanta, Aikido, Grype

Languages

Python, Bash

DevOps Tools

Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Confluence