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Work Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer, Cisco

  Oct, 2021 - Present

  • Migrated provisioning from Ansible to Terraform, cutting provisioning time by 30% and reducing documentation churn.

  • Orchestrated AWX/Tower on Kubernetes with Helm to improve scalability and reliability.

  • Implemented Teleport for secure, auditable access to AWS accounts and bastion infrastructure.

  • Built an internal microservice enabling developers to embed Webex messaging into their services.

  • Created a microservice to automate patching AWS Auto Scaling Groups, removing a monthly week-long manual patching rotation.

  • Built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling AI agents to query and reuse repository scripts, preventing code duplication.

  • Automated onboarding and access control, saving 960 hours annually; awarded Owlie Award for Innovation.

  • Led a zero-downtime MySQL upgrade supporting 10,000+ users.

  • Migrated 14 AWS accounts into an AWS Organization to improve consistency and security.

  • Moved EC2 infrastructure into Auto Scaling Groups using launch templates (AMIs), RPM configuration, and EBS snapshots—reducing deployments from 3–5 hours to ~1 hour.

• Deployment Team Lead, Jefferson County Elections

  Aug, 2020 - Feb, 20216 months

  • Engineered Python script for voter data encryption, saving 192 hours weekly.

  • Automated AWS S3 transfers, enhancing data management efficiency.

  • Implemented Snipe-IT on AWS EC2, slashing asset management costs by $399/monthly.

  • Streamlined volunteer smartphone setup via Samsung Smart Deploy, reducing setup timeframe from two weeks to 48 hours.

  • Leveraged Acronis software to expedite volunteer laptop deployment from six weeks to two weeks.

Projects Experience

• Alfred: Murder Mystery Party Platform

  Feb, 2020 - Jan, 202111 months

  Developed a comprehensive online platform during COVID to host and manage murder mystery parties.

  • Enabled game masters to start and host events, and players to connect, use character abilities, access private information, and interact with other players.

  • Successfully managed events with up to 50 players using Node.js, Express, React, and MongoDB (MERN stack).

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