Senior Infra/DevOps/Platform Engineer
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Skills

Programming: Python, Go, Node.js, Ruby, Bash
DevOps/Platform: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, ECS, Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, Vault, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Cloudflare, Akamai
Databases & Search: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis/Valkey, RabbitMQ, SQS
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, New Relic, Honeycomb, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, eBPF
Data: Redshift, Airflow, DBT, Looker, Glue, Debezium, Kafka

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer, Wrapbook (Current)

  • Managing and scaling a Rails-based production finance platform, focusing on developer experience, infrastructure management, high volume CI/CD pipelines, and application uptime/stability.
  • Completed refactor of application configuration to use the standard Rails environment configuration instead of custom implementation.
  • Maintained large-scale self-hosted CI infrastructure (GitHub Actions).
  • Integrated ECR Credential Helper to GitHub Actions self-hosted runners to eliminate pipeline re-run failures and improve developer experience.
  • Participated in high-impact CI platform migration project, conducting technical evaluation of alternative platforms and leading the design and deployment of Buildkite self-hosted infrastructure.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer II / Tech Lead, Axios (Jan 2022 – Aug 2024)

  • Managed infrastructure and tooling for NextJs/Django/Go application services powering the Axios website and internal Content Management System.
  • Led technical strategy and cross-functional collaboration for adoption of Cloud-Native security platform (Orca), Data Observability platform (MonteCarlo), and migration to GitHub Actions.
  • Identified and reduced Kubernetes cluster costs by 50% through right-sizing deployment resources and optimizing EKS node types and scheduling.
  • Developed automated tooling and CI/CD workflows for provisioning ephemeral development environments and production deployments, enabling rapid product iteration.
  • Managed Cloudflare infrastructure and improved site resiliency to malicious attacks and bot traffic.
  • Owned data platform, configuring CI/CD workflows for data infrastructure, building tooling and establishing standards for Airflow pipelines and DBT, and integrating MonteCarlo to improve observability across the data platform.
  • Managed and administrated multiple Redshift clusters and AWS Date Lake infrastructure, leading initiatives to reduce costs and improve performance.

Senior DevOps Engineer, CoStar (Mar 2021 – Jan 2022)

  • Migrated CoStar’s flagship service to Kubernetes blue/green deployment using Argo Rollouts, ensuring zero-downtime releases for production workloads.
  • Dockerized and deployed .NET applications using Azure Pipelines and Helm, improving deployment consistency and reliability.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes clusters without downtime through custom Azure DevOps Pipelines and Terraform infrastructure-as-code resources.
  • Wrote and maintained custom Azure Pipelines Tasks (Typescript), and optimized existing pipelines.
  • Mentored junior team members on DevOps practices and operational excellence, fostering alignment with organizational goals.

Lead DevOps Engineer, FiscalNote (Sep 2019 – Mar 2021)

  • Guided team transition to agile practices and developed technical strategy and roadmap for infrastructure modernization.
  • Improved cross-team communication and visibility by introducing structured sprint reporting processes across engineering teams.
  • Automated infrastructure deployments with Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible, replacing manually deployed EC2 instances and improving application infrastructure stability.
  • Built python tool to automated test environment data refresh process, updating 10+ RDS instances in parallel, drastically reducing time and effort involved from multiple days to hours.
  • Created React-based infrastructure dashboard displaying real-time health status of 10+ microservices, improving incident response and troubleshooting capabilities.
  • Supported engineering efforts to achieve and maintain SOC 2 compliance through infrastructure security improvements.
  • Designed modern multi-account AWS architecture with cross-account VPC connectivity using Transit Gateway.

Software Engineer, Elastic (Feb 2019 – Sep 2019)

  • Optimized and managed Jenkins workflows responsible for building and publishing Elastic Cloud platform releases for internal and enterprise customers.
  • Integrated new Elastic product versions into development environments, ensuring seamless product iteration.
  • Supported developer environments and tooling, resolving issues and developing new features.
  • Participated in on-call rotation, investigating and resolving production issues with customer Elastic Cloud deployments.

Lead DevOps Engineer, NPR (Mar 2016 – Feb 2019)

  • Led transformation of traditional operations team to agile DevOps team, expanding team personnel, capabilities and organizational impact.
  • Reduced server deployment times through custom Debian package development and Chef cookbook optimization.
  • Built internal infrastructure dashboard (Golang + React) for Chef server management, improving operational visibility.
  • Designed and implemented replication-aware load-balancing for MySQL clusters with HAProxy.
  • Pioneered infrastructure expansion into AWS, establishing standards best practices for highly-available application deployments.
  • Architected and implemented multi-region AWS service architecture with automated failover capabilities, proven effective in production incidents.
  • Evolved legacy, “one-shot” deployment process to failure-aware rolling deployments.
  • Developed initial Kubernetes environment, enabling the organization’s first container-based service deployments.

Education

West Virginia University, BSc in Computer Science, 2012