Profile

I've spent three decades building and scaling things that didn't exist yet. Platforms spanning adtech, agtech, fintech, crypto, healthcare, and more. I work across the stack, building and supporting products in Ruby, Python, Go, and more. I also build platform engineering underneath: Kubernetes migrations, IaC modernization, CI/CD overhauls, and observability buildouts. More recently, I've been building with AI — designing agentic systems, RAG pipelines, MCP servers, and multi-provider LLM routing for production workloads. I've been part of early teams acquired by Yahoo!, Google, and Gemini, won TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, and hold two US patents in fintech.

Technology Summary



Work Experience

Procare Solutions/Dec 2023 - Present

Senior Platform Engineer

Run infrastructure for Procare's online platform end-to-end, leading a team of two engineers. Architect new solutions alongside product, own EKS operations and upgrades, DR strategy, cost management, release management and automation, IaC, and internal tooling. Migrated legacy CloudFormation and instance-based infrastructure to Terragrunt/OpenTofu and multi-region EKS. Transitioned build pipelines from AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline to Bitbucket Pipelines with ArgoCD. Implemented Scalr for IaC CI/CD and built reusable Terraform modules shared across applications and environments. Established monitoring on New Relic, support DBAs managing multi-region Aurora RDS, and cover developer support and on-call.

Lead infrastructure for Procare's AI initiatives, supporting agentic systems and multi-LLM workloads in production. Designed multi-provider LLM routing with failover across providers, built disaster recovery patterns specific to AI workload state and conversational context, and established observability tailored to non-deterministic systems where traditional latency/error metrics don't fully capture behavior. Partnered with AI engineering to scale infrastructure as the AI feature surface grew.

Readyset/Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Senior Platform Engineer

Owned Readyset's production infrastructure across multiple AWS EKS clusters. Designed and built a customer-facing cloud platform on ECS, EKS, and RDS that turned Readyset into a hosted SaaS product. Evaluated GCP as a second cloud provider, supported build pipelines across GitHub and Gerrit, ran Prometheus monitoring, and covered developer support and on-call.

Artisan Consulting / Chick-fil-A/Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

Senior Platform Engineer

Supported Chick-fil-A Supply's infrastructure across four products, each running dedicated AWS EKS clusters spanning development, staging, and production environments. Managed all infrastructure as code using Terraform, building reusable modules and developing custom Terraform providers. Leveraged Scalr for IaC CI/CD and ArgoCD for application deployments. Integrated and maintained internal monitoring systems, provided developer support, and participated in on-call rotation.

Kingfield/Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Managed large AWS environment using AWS services such as RDS, Kinesis, EventBridge, SSM, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Lambda, and Fargate. Managed multiple VPCs and accounts including extensive IAM policies and roles. Managed documentation as well as runbooks, monitoring and metrics with Datadog. Simplified regression testing. Defined standards for development and production support. Python and Go development with lambdas and devops related scripts. Production support 24/7 on-call.

divvyDOSE/Jul 2021 - Jan 2022

Senior Platform Engineer

Owned AWS infrastructure across RDS, Kinesis, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, SSM, S3, Lambda, EC2, and Fargate. Maintained a large Terraform repository with many shared modules. Built Datadog monitoring and metrics, wrote documentation, and managed runbooks. Developed DevOps and monitoring tooling in Python, Ruby, and Go. On-call rotation.

Rockset/Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

Site Reliability Engineer

Joined Rockset at ~40 employees to help shape the engineering environment and build internal tooling. Led migration of Rockset's real-time analytics platform from managed Kubernetes to Amazon EKS to help with cost and stability. Operated the resulting clusters and worked across Kafka, Zookeeper, etcd, Terraform, and Helm. Ran monitoring and alerting on Grafana and Prometheus. On-call rotation.

Gemini/Jul 2020 - Nov 2020

Software Engineer - Credit Card

Joined Gemini as part of the Blockrize acquisition to lead the integration of the crypto rewards credit card product into Gemini's platform. Developed the infrastructure plan for the new system, working with developers to design the architecture for securely processing and storing financial and user data. Collaborated across teams to align the credit card product with Gemini's existing services, security requirements, and compliance standards.

MediaMath/May 2017 - Jul 2020

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

SRE team lead. Work with on prem and AWS infrastructure. Managing clusters running Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Redis, PostgreSQL. Supporting Prometheus for monitoring and metrics. Docker and Kubernetes implementations. Focused on performance tuning, scalability, redundancy, and high availability.

Agrilyst(concurrent with Google SRE role through Apr 2016; acquired by IUNU)/Apr 2015 - Apr 2017

Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer

Managed our technical team. Day to day CTO responsibilities, including budgeting, time allocation, managing reports. Built our infrastructure and dev environment on AWS using CentOS, Chef, and Ruby on Rails. Supported our on-call rotation, metrics and monitoring using Librato. Built our first prototype used to win TechCrunch Disrupt 2015.

Google/Jan 2012 - Mar 2016

Site Reliability Engineer

Facilitated Admeld's integration into Google's DoubleClick adserver. Migrated logs and data from AWS into Google's cloud for archival. Moved to the Production Monitoring team to support legacy monitoring products as well as Monarch, Google's next generation monitoring solution.

Admeld(Acquired by Google)/Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

Site Reliability Engineer

Managed migration from old infrastructure to new Chef/CentOS infrastructure in existing datacenters. Built out new datacenters, automated server and OS installation processes. On-call rotation, worked closely with developers to support applications in Java, C, and Ruby.

AppNexus(Now Xandr; acquired by AT&T)/Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

Manager of Cloud Operations

Managed teams in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, and Belarus. Maintained a 1000+ server infrastructure and related services. Automated configuration of virtual servers for clients and infrastructure, BigIP and network configuration. Monitoring and metrics with Nagios, Cacti. On-call rotation.

Yahoo!/Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

Manager of Ad Exchange Operations

Managed teams in New York, San Jose and Bangalore. Grew infrastructure from 5,000 servers to over 12,000 servers. Supported adserver applications written in C, Java, and Perl. On-call rotation. Metrics and monitoring with Icinga, Cacti, and Swatch. Migrated 7,500 servers from CentOS to RHEL with zero downtime. Performed 4 new datacenter installations and 10 existing datacenter expansions. Planned migrations from existing RM datacenters into Yahoo's datacenters.

Right Media(Acquired by Yahoo!)/May 2006 - Jan 2008

Manager of Unix Systems

Managed a team of system administrators and project managers. Grew from 100 servers to over 5,000 servers. Migrated from Gentoo to CentOS, setting up full PXE server installation and configurations automation using CFEngine. Supported all aspects of datacenter planning, implementation, coordination, and installation.

WhenU/Jul 2005 - May 2006

Operations Manager‍

Supported ~100 servers in two datacenters. Managed all infrastructure, standardizing OS, configuration platform, and networking. Supported many Perl based adserver applications. On-call rotation.

BlueFly Inc/Nov 2003 - Jul 2005

Datacenter Manager / Senior Unix Administrator / Build Engineer

Worked individually and with a team to design and maintain approximately 150 Sun and Linux servers in multiple datacenters. Managed multiple employees. Supported many applications, including Blue Martini, SwiftMQ, Endeca Search Server, Fulcrum Search Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Starteam, Tomcat, and Resin. Migrated legacy AIX equipment and applications to Sun and Linux platforms. Utilized Nagios, Cacti, and various homegrown scripts to monitor servers and network infrastructure. Redesigned and supported entire build and release process, using Ant, Make, and Perl to create a seamless build and deploy strategy. Supported back end applications for our call center, warehouse staff, and operations departments. Supported development team and QA team through releases. Designed and implemented high availability colocation move to new datacenter utilizing new and existing equipment. Developed and deployed Solaris Jumpstart and Linux Kickstart servers using custom scripts to install and set up servers. Automated many daily tasks using Perl and Java. Supported production website 24/7 with on-call support.

About.com(Acquired by Google)/Feb 2003 - Dec 2003

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Worked individually and with a team to design and administer multi-tiered clustered network for Sprinks.com, a division of About.com. Managed employees. Experienced with Solaris 2.6 - 9 for Sparc and Intel, FreeBSD 4.x, and Linux. Oracle 8.1.7 and 9i installation and support. Veritas Volume Manager installation and support. Apache installation and support of custom Apache modules. Software packaging and deployment across multiple OS platforms. Implementation of custom FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris network installation servers (Jumpstart). Implemented version control software (CVS) to manage source code for application builds. Hardware installation, operating system upgrades, system performance tuning. Implemented extensive monitoring solution, including Nagios, MRTG, and custom scripts. Automated many administrative actions using Perl, PHP, C/C++. Packaged and deployed custom Java code using Ant, Makefiles, and custom scripts. Supported 24/7 environment with on-call support.

Concentra Managed Care/Feb 2002 - Feb 2003

Senior Unix Systems Administrator / Network Engineer

Worked individually and with a team to develop and deploy Internet based applications. Administered Solaris 7 and 8, Linux, and Windows server installation and support. Administration on Sparc 2 to Enterprise 4500 systems. Software installation and support of BEA Weblogic, Oracle 8. Prepared software for deployment, automated installs with shell scripts, Makefiles, and Perl scripts. Implemented version control software (CVS) to manage source code for application builds. Backup rotation scheduling and storage techniques using Veritas NetBackup. Programming shell scripts and CGI in Perl, Java, and ASP.

SPACE.com/Jun 2000 - Feb 2002

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Worked individually and with a team to design and administer network infrastructure. Responsible for designing, pricing, and ordering new server infrastructure while maintaining existing infrastructure. Experience with Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, as well as FreeBSD and Linux. Experienced with Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solstice Disk Suite. Supported Java based platforms using Weblogic, Tomcat, and JRun. Experienced with all Internet services such as Apache, Sendmail/Qmail/Postfix, Bind, Proftpd/WuFTPd, Tripwire, Port Sentry. Duties included security auditing internal and external networks, day to day administration of UNIX servers, backup scheduling and management, shell scripting, Perl development. Experienced with Samba and NFS/AFS file systems. Development using Perl, PHP, and XML. Experienced with Open Market Content Centre 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.

Deutsche Bank/Jun 1998 - Jun 2000

Senior Unix Systems Administrator / Developer

Worked individually and with a team to develop and deploy Internet and Intranet programs. Experience with Solaris system administration using Solaris 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 for Sparc and Intel platforms, Linux, and AIX servers. Administration on Sparc 2 to Enterprise 4500 systems. Hardware installation, software maintenance, operating system upgrades, and system performance tuning. Duties also include maintaining approx. 45 production/development Windows NT servers, hardware maintenance, software installs and upgrades, and general day to day administration. Prepared software for deployment and deploying software, automating installs with shell scripts and makefiles, and batch files for Windows based systems. Version control software (PVCS) to manage source code for application builds. Backup rotation scheduling and storage techniques. Experienced with various web servers including Netscape Fasttrack/Enterprise web servers, Apache, Stronghold, and Microsoft Internet Information Server. Programming shell scripts and CGI in Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, and VBScript.

Entrepreneurship

Horizon Group LLC

Founder & Principal Engineer

Building and operating a portfolio of SaaS and AI-powered applications. Designing multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure across DigitalOcean and AWS serving 13+ production systems. Built SegmentIQ (privacy-first financial analysis with local LLM redaction + Claude API), Hale (HIPAA-compliant health AI, Vanta certified), and several other launched products.

Rocko(Early stage co-founder)

Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer

Built infrastructure and application platform for a DeFi lending marketplace that simplifies crypto-backed borrowing from protocols like Aave and Compound. Developed the Next.js application framework, managed contractor teams, and architected the self-custodial smart wallet integration enabling users to borrow against crypto assets across multiple chains.

Blockrize(Acquired by Gemini)

Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer

Built the first crypto rewards credit card. Designed and shipped the initial infrastructure, first working prototype, and demo applications. Architected the secure, scalable data layer and built the tooling behind our crypto pricing models and provider integrations.

Patents & Open Source

  • US11763335B2 - Real-time distribution of cryptocurrency rewards for a loyalty program
  • US11507971B2 - Cryptocurrency loyalty program based on transactional data

I also manage the following open source projects:

  • SyncBeam - Like AirDrop, minus the frustration.
  • pyway - Pyway is a database versioning and migration tool inspired by Flyway
  • mysqld-integration-test - mysqld-integration-test creates a temporary mysqld instance to use for testing your application
  • IncidentBot - Incident slack bot written in Go for incident management
  • SnowRabbit - Snowrabbit is a looking glass network app written in Ruby that displays latency information between sites.
  • Setbit SDKs - Open source SDKs for Setbit, a feature flag platform for managing feature rollouts without deploying new code
  • Vezor - Terraform/OpenTofu provider and SDKs (Python, Ruby) for Vezor, a GitOps secrets management platform