About Me
DevOps/Full Stack Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and operating developer-centric infrastructure and automation solutions. Passionate about building self-service platforms, optimizing developer velocity, and enhancing developer workflows. Proficient with containerized solutions, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud automation at scale, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and observability.
- Location:Denver, CO
- Age:28
- Study:Wichita State University
- Employment:Forml, Senior Full Stack Engineer
Passion Projects
Projects I've built in my free time to solve personal needs or explore new technologies.
Balanced Brief
An automated news aggregator that delivers non-biased content
Bezos Watch
A one stop shop for providing security based alerts in AWS
This Site
Makes me look pretty
Professional Work
Notable projects I've contributed to in professional settings.
Self-Service Ephemeral Environments
Created a UI tool for developers and QA to instantly create and manage their own isolated test environments with automated cleanup.
RAG-Powered Document Search
AI-enhanced knowledge base using Retrieval Augmented Generation for searching across corporate documents.
AWS CloudWatch to NewRelic Migration
Enterprise observability platform migration enhancing alerting capabilities and cross-team visibility.
Automated Client Billing
Python based integration that streamlined the client invoicing process.
Chef to Ansible Migration
Enterprise-wide migration of 100+ production servers from Chef to Ansible for improved configuration management.
Data Restoration UI Portal
AWX-powered UI for scheduling data restoration jobs and managing ephemeral environments.
Professional Experience
My journey as a professional, highlighting roles where I've made significant contributions and developed my expertise.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Forml (Remote)
July 2024 - Present
- Lead end-to-end development of a robust, full-stack platform leveraging Python, Angular, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL as the first engineering hire
- Create sophisticated API integrations and system architectures, enabling the platform to support twice the user base within two months
- Collaborate closely with founders and clients to craft quarterly roadmaps, ensuring product vision aligns seamlessly with technical execution
- Design and maintain secure, high-performance external APIs using AWS, Terraform, and Python
- Engineer streamlined, one-click deployment solutions for on-premise clients, reducing onboarding time from 3 days to just 4 hours
DevOps Engineer
Project Canary, Denver
May 2023 - July 2024
- Orchestrated enterprise-wide observability strategy for 10+ critical services, implementing proactive monitoring that maintained 99.99% uptime
- Built a self-service ephemeral environment tool with a UI for branch selection, data sources, and one-click deployment
- Architected performance optimizations for high-throughput time-series PostgreSQL databases, improving query performance by 23%
- Planned and executed migration of observability infrastructure to New Relic, reducing monitoring costs by 14%
- Created a full-stack retrieval augmented generation application using AWS Bedrock and vector databases, increasing cross-departmental information access efficiency by 80%
DevSecOps Engineer
Lendflow (Remote)
August 2021 - May 2023
- Built ephemeral infrastructure solutions for developers and QA, eliminating persistent environment costs by 32%
- Enhanced logging and observability by implementing a centralized OpenSearch solution, reducing issue identification time from ~3 hours to under 10 minutes
- Served as on-call engineer, ensuring 99.9999% uptime for 20K+ users by managing incident response
- Developed a Flask-based API integration for automated client billing, reducing manual invoicing efforts by 70%
- Implemented AWS WAF and CloudFront to reduce security incidents by 60% and strengthen application security posture
DevOps Engineer
MCG (Remote)
February 2020 - August 2021
- Led migration from on-premises infrastructure to Azure Cloud for 3+ teams, achieving 99.9999% annual uptime
- Migrated configuration management from Chef to Ansible for 100+ Windows servers, reducing configuration errors by 82%
- Engineered load testing frameworks using JMeter and Azure Container Instances, validating platform reliability at scale
- Designed modular Terraform components to standardize cloud infrastructure, accelerating new environment setup from approximately 2 days to 1 hour
Systems Engineer
Cerner, Kansas City
September 2018 - August 2021
- Built an AWX-powered UI for scheduling data restoration jobs and spinning up ephemeral test environments
- Managed patching, upgrades, and support for 600+ hosts in vSphere, ensuring system stability and security
- Utilized tools like Git, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Splunk, and AWS to drive automation and continuous delivery
- Created Ansible playbooks to automate server configuration and troubleshooting, saving the team 40+ hours per month
Skills & Expertise
Technologies and competencies I've mastered throughout my career.
Infrastructure & Platforms
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Azure
GCP
Pulumi
CloudFormation
Linux
Vagrant
PackerProgramming Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Bash
Java
C#/.NETWeb Frameworks
Next.js
Angular
Flask
FastAPI
Tailwind CSSObservability & Reliability
New Relic
Prometheus
Datadog
AWS CloudWatch
Splunk
Grafana
Elasticsearch
OpenSearchConfiguration Management
Ansible
Chef
PuppetCI/CD & Developer Enablement
GitHub Actions
GitOps
ArgoCD
Bitbucket Pipelines
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins