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Building Scalable Platforms & Empowering Engineering Teams
I am a strategic technical leader with over 20 years of experience, evolving from foundational infrastructure to architecting "zero-to-one" cloud and data platforms. I thrive at the intersection of product, engineering, and data, translating complex business goals into scalable, full-stack solutions.
At my core, I am a puzzle solver. I am endlessly curious about how things work—and how to make them better. Whether I am dismantling a legacy monolith or debugging a team process, I am driven to find the elegant solution hidden inside the complexity.
My philosophy is simple: Build robust platforms, and build the people who run them.
I have a proven track record of architecting FinOps and risk-management dashboards, creating internal developer platforms (IDPs) that accelerate velocity, and mentoring traditional sysadmins into high-performing software engineers. I lead with empathy, curiosity, and a "get stuff done" mindset.
Core Competencies
- Cloud FinOps & Cost Management: Architecting hybrid-cloud cost-tracking and recommendation platforms from the ground up. Proven to drive $31M+ in cloud cost avoidance.
- Technical Risk & Security: Building platforms to identify and manage enterprise-wide technical risk, including end-of-life hardware/software, security vulnerabilities, and code-level compliance (e.g., enterprise-wide Java remediation).
- Platform Engineering & IDPs: Designing and building internal SDKs and developer platforms (PaaS) to standardize development, enforce best practices, and accelerate engineering velocity.
- Data & Service Catalogs (CMDB): Architecting foundational asset and ownership registries to solve critical "who-owns-this" problems, drastically improving incident response (MTTR) and change management.
- People Leadership & Talent Development: Designing and leading technical upskilling bootcamps. Proven to successfully transition infrastructure engineers into modern Go/React software engineers and accelerate junior talent to senior-level roles.
- Full-Stack & AI Architecture: Hands-on-keyboard expertise in Go (Golang), Python, React/TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. Architecting platforms utilizing LLMs and agentic AI to create sophisticated recommendation frameworks.