My journey so far
Experience
- 2021 — Present
Senior Cloud Architect
Nimbus Systems · Austin, Texas
Own the cloud practice across fourteen product teams. Designed a multi-account AWS landing zone serving 200+ workloads, cut platform spend 38% with FinOps guardrails, and lead the architecture review board for every production launch.
- 2017 — 2021
Cloud Solutions Architect
Vantia Labs · Remote
Migrated forty legacy services to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime. Built the company's first Terraform module library — now 120+ versioned modules — and introduced GitOps delivery that took deploys from weekly to on-demand.
- 2014 — 2017
DevOps Engineer
Corelink · Dallas, Texas
Ran CI/CD and observability for a high-traffic retail platform. Drove mean-time-to-recovery from hours to eleven minutes with runbooks, SLOs and chaos drills, and automated SOC 2 evidence collection.
- 2012 — 2014
Systems Administrator
Hexalab · Houston, Texas
Kept the on-prem world turning while learning why it had to change: virtualization, backups, and the first lift-and-shift migrations that started this whole career.
Foundations
Education & Certifications
- 2010 — 2012
M.S. Distributed Systems
University of Texas at Austin
Thesis on consensus protocols under partition. The reason I reach for managed services — and the reason I know exactly when not to.
- 2006 — 2010
B.S. Computer Science
Texas State University
Operating systems, networks, and the C debugging scars to prove it.
- Certified
AWS Solutions Architect Professional · CKA · HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Amazon Web Services · CNCF · HashiCorp
Re-certified on schedule, because expired badges help nobody. Currently working toward the FinOps Certified Practitioner.
What I bring to the table
Core Skills
AWS — Landing Zones, EKS, Networking
95%Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
92%Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
89%CI/CD — GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps
87%FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization
85%Python & Go for Automation
82%- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Cloudflare
- Datadog
- Vault
- OPA / Kyverno
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
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Let's Work Together
Available for architecture reviews, migration leadership and fractional platform roles starting next quarter. Tell me about your stack and I'll reply within one business day.