Profile

Cloud architect with twelve years of experience designing secure, scalable and cost-efficient platforms. Specialized in landing zones, Kubernetes platforms, zero-downtime migrations and FinOps. Known for boring cutovers and invoices that go down.

Experience

• Senior Cloud Architect, Nimbus Systems (2021 — Present): own the cloud practice across fourteen teams; multi-account AWS landing zone for 200+ workloads; platform spend cut 38%.
• Cloud Solutions Architect, Vantia Labs (2017 — 2021): migrated forty services to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime; built a 120-module Terraform library; GitOps delivery.
• DevOps Engineer, Corelink (2014 — 2017): CI/CD and observability for high-traffic retail; MTTR from hours to eleven minutes; automated SOC 2 evidence.
• Systems Administrator, Hexalab (2012 — 2014): virtualization, backups and first lift-and-shift migrations.

Education & Certifications

• M.S. Distributed Systems, University of Texas at Austin (2012).
• B.S. Computer Science, Texas State University (2010).
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional · CKA · HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Core Skills

AWS (EKS, networking, Control Tower) · Terraform & IaC · Kubernetes platform engineering · CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) · FinOps & cost optimization · Python & Go · Azure · Google Cloud · Vault · OPA/Kyverno · Datadog.