Jun 2023 – Present
Staff Engineer, DevOps
Dec 2024 – Present- Lead a team of 3 DevOps engineers supporting a 40+ engineer loan originations platform, sustaining a two-week release cadence with no significant infrastructure outages
- Core engineer on moving the primary customer site (10+ domains) from Imperva to AWS WAF and CloudFront, saving $500K+/year; designed the URL rewrites and header passthrough
- Led consolidation of a legacy business process orchestration platform onto shared infrastructure across 8 environments and 3 teams, retiring 3 AWS accounts and saving ~$20K/month with zero downtime
- Owned a fraud claims application migration through cutover, retiring 3 legacy AWS accounts with no production defects; delegated most of the build, growing one engineer into EKS and networking
- Designed a private CloudFront VPC Origins ingress pattern that replaces public load balancers and cross-account paths; approved as an organization-wide architecture standard
- Maintain production Amazon EKS clusters with rolling node-replacement upgrades and Cluster Autoscaler; set the maintenance procedures other teams follow across 100+ clusters
- Authored 15+ and maintain 40+ shared Terraform modules with sensible defaults, so development teams provision infrastructure safely themselves
- Delivered infrastructure and pipelines for the platform's first production release (business process orchestration platform, GraphQL subgraphs, 7+ environments) 1 month early
- Consolidated the income verification service into a shared-services AWS account, retiring 3 accounts and sharply reducing PII sprawl
- Retired every Jenkins pipeline ahead of schedule for reusable GitHub Actions; made CDK pipelines with ephemeral environments the standard for GraphQL subgraphs
- Coached a junior engineer to AWS certification and promotion to Senior; grew weekly office hours to 4–6 engineers; gave tech talks on chaos engineering and AI-assisted operations
Lead DevOps Engineer
Jun 2023 – Dec 2024- Took over DevOps for a troubled, high-visibility income verification launch, rebuilt trust with the project team, and shipped on schedule, reaching 100% of production volume in a month
- Tested pre-release builds with the business process orchestration platform vendor across multiple iterations, finding bugs that unblocked launch and avoided self-hosting a database
- Led the enterprise GitHub Copilot pilot to ~120 developers through AI governance review; later automated licensing through ServiceNow
- Partnered with the platform team on compute savings plans, growing coverage from 60% to 80% as workloads expanded; now saving ~$20K/month
- Interviewed and recommended DevOps hires, each a strong addition; started weekly office hours and mentored a junior engineer and a contractor
- Rolled out code scanning across all repositories and pipelines; deployed operational dashboards for the workflow platform and income verification service