Senior SRE & Platform Engineer

Reliable systems,
built to last.

Senior SRE and Platform Engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure on Kubernetes and AWS.

I partner with engineering teams to design and operate platform infrastructure: GitOps buildouts, observability deployments, on-call process design, and IaC library development. I've spent 5 years embedded in large Kubernetes environments on AWS, working alongside developers in organizations ranging from 50 to 200+ engineers.

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What I Bring

A broad platform skillset built through years of direct ownership, from architecture decisions through daily operations and cross-team enablement.

01GitOps Platform Design & Implementation

I've designed and built GitOps platforms from greenfield and modernized existing ones. Argo, Helm, Kustomize. Gated repo architectures, environment state management, automated validation, and developer self-service workflows.

02Observability Stack Deployment

I deploy and standardize Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic stacks across multi-team environments, replacing fragmented monitoring setups with a single consistent standard that developers actually use.

03Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

I author and maintain Terraform modules with least-privilege patterns, automated testing, and CI/CD-driven deployments, including contributions to enterprise module libraries consumed across large multi-team portfolios.

04CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

I build versioned, modular pipeline libraries (GitHub Actions, Bash, Python, Golang) covering the full delivery lifecycle: build, security scanning, drift detection, change management, and release notes.

05SRE Process Design

I've built on-call structures, incident response workflows, severity definitions, postmortem processes, and cross-timezone communication standards from scratch. Built to actually get used, not filed away.

06Platform Tooling & Developer Experience

I design tooling, intake processes, and workflows that help engineering ideas move from prototype to org-wide adoption, with developer-facing diagnostics and self-serve deployment visibility.

07Kubernetes Operations

Day-to-day ownership of EKS clusters, Istio service mesh, Kong ingress, and AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK), across multi-cluster, multi-account environments.

08Legacy System Modernization

I've led migrations from brittle, opaque deployment systems to auditable, maintainable platforms. Careful migration planning keeps existing workloads running throughout.

09Application Reliability Instrumentation

I analyze application service flows to identify critical execution paths and instrumentation gaps, and write Go instrumentation code to add missing Prometheus metrics and enable alerting on previously opaque paths.

10AI-Assisted Engineering Workflows

I build prompt-driven workflows that analyze service flows to map critical paths and surface instrumentation gaps, and that automatically review code changes and deployments against historical incidents, common mistakes, and likely future pitfalls.

Technical Profile

Kubernetes & Orchestration

EKS Argo CD Helm Kustomize Flux Istio Kong ACK

Cloud

AWS IAM EKS RDS S3 Multi-account

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Module Authoring Automated Testing

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Bash Python Golang

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Elastic

Configuration Management

Ansible

Languages

Python Bash Golang

AI-Assisted Engineering

LLM Prompt Workflows Reliability Analysis Automated Code Review

Experience

A summary of where I've worked and what I've built. Full history in the resume.

Education

B.S., Information Technology
Western Governors University, 2017
A.S., Business Administration
Piedmont Virginia Community College, 2012

Let's Connect

Open to full-time Senior SRE and Platform Engineering roles. Feel free to reach out directly or grab my resume.

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