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Work Experience

• Staff SWE, Office of the CEO, Cloaked Inc

  Aug, 2023 - Present

  Spearheaded executive-level innovation by developing autonomous AI agents and a cross-functional ideation portal—driving a highly sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience that boosted user adoption and retention and defined governance processes

  • Developed autonomous AI agents using LangChain to automate user account management tasks such as auto change password, auto login, and auto change email

  • Leveraged these AI agents as a core fundraising narrative and created a highly sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience that significantly boosted user adoption and retention

  • Designed and launched a cross-functional ideation portal engaging design, customer success, engineering, product development, and executive teams with transparent status tracking

  • Partnered with design, product, engineering, marketing, customer success, and co-founders to validate, refine, and ship concepts into market-ready features

  • Defined and documented cross-functional roles, ceremonies, and governance processes to unify ideation and accelerate product delivery across the organization

• Staff Platform Engineer, Cloaked Inc

  Sep, 2022 - Aug, 202311 months

  Oversaw strategic AWS EKS migration and architected enterprise deployment governance, compliance frameworks, and GitOps CI/CD pipelines to enhance security, scalability, and developer productivity

  • Defined and executed a strategic migration roadmap transitioning legacy PaaS platforms to AWS EKS, driving cost reduction and scalability

  • Collaborated with cross-functional leadership to implement a Cloudflare control plane, enhancing security posture and resilience

  • Architected and led adoption of a multi-account AWS hub-and-spoke model, ensuring SOC2, ISO 27001, and 27701 compliance

  • Established enterprise Kubernetes and edge deployment standards, mentoring engineering teams in best practices and governance

  • Spearheaded design and implementation of a GitOps-based CI/CD pipeline, accelerating deployments by 30x

  • Partnered with product and analytics teams to develop an end-to-end analytics stack, enabling data-driven decision-making

• Owner / Co-GM, The Onward Store Steakhouse

  Oct, 2021 - Jan, 20242 years 3 months

  Owned and managed a full-service steakhouse with 7 staff, generating $500K in annual revenue and overseeing P&L, operations, and vendor relations.

  • Led a team of 7 employees, handling recruitment, training, scheduling, and performance management.

  • Directed all facets of business operations, achieving $500K in annual revenue through strategic inventory management and cost control.

  • Designed and implemented operational processes for facility maintenance, vendor partnerships, and quality assurance, driving consistent customer satisfaction.

  • Managed P&L, budgets, and financial reporting, optimizing expenses and improving profit margins.

  • Executed marketing and community engagement initiatives to increase local brand awareness and repeat patronage.

• Staff SWE in Developer Experience, Inception Health

  Jun, 2020 - Jun, 20222 years

  Architected AWS CDK infrastructure and tooling for HIPAA-compliant patient care microservices

  • Led delivery of AWS CDK infrastructure for patient care microservices platform, ensuring HIPAA compliance and deep AWS integration

  • Collaborated with AWS and partner teams to integrate managed services and accelerate platform development

  • Championed CDK usage across application tiers, designing IaC patterns for teams to consume and interact with the platform

  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps, automating TestFlight and App Store releases through Git, enabling self-serve deployments

  • Trained and mentored product and mobile development teams on CDK, serverless architectures, and CI/CD workflows, fostering autonomy

• Senior Platform Engineer, CyberGRX (now ProcessUnity)

  Dec, 2018 - Jun, 20201 year 6 months

  Led cloud-native CI/CD vision and implementation for AWS and Kubernetes

  • Led vision on cloud-native CI/CD pipelines for AWS and Kubernetes

  • Developed custom resource using CoreOS operator SDK for orchestrating blue/green deployments

  • Redesigned build and deploy process that dramatically improved team productivity

  • Mentored software engineers in best practices for building and deploying software

  • Grew into Staff Engineer role by owning large-scope initiatives, collaborating with the Tech Lead to drive interactions across the organization and unblock progress

• Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Cardfree

  Jan, 2018 - Dec, 201811 months

  Managed large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS

  • Managed a large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS

  • Architected hybrid AMI build and deploy platform using Packer and Vagrant, enabling consistent Windows and Linux EC2 deployments for C# and Ruby services

  • Standardized infrastructure-as-code practices to pave the way for open-source .NET migration

  • Developed and launched a structured PCI-compliant incident response program, replacing ad-hoc Slack alerts with a streamlined IR workflow without excessive paperwork

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Protectwise, Inc (Acquired by Verizon)

  Aug, 2016 - Jan, 20181 year 5 months

  Operated SRE for petabyte-scale data ingestion platform

  • Managed SRE for massive scale data ingestion platform with thousands of Cassandra nodes and petabytes in S3

  • Administered $10M+/yr production AWS environment using Infrastructure as Code

• DevOps Engineer, Food Service Warehouse

  Jun, 2015 - Mar, 20169 months

  Built Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS technologies

  • Implemented Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS, fleet, etcd, and flannel

  • Accelerated release cycles for Node.js services with container orchestration

• Software Developer, Mississippi State University

  Jun, 2010 - Jun, 20144 years

  Created grant proposals and custom software for research initiatives

  • Created grant proposals to fund custom software for university research initiatives

  • Developed software for tracking 'human sensors' through natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy

Projects Experience

• AI Agent Suite

  - Present

  Created a suite of AI agents for automated user account management

  • Developed 'auto change password', 'auto login', and 'auto change email' agents

  • Leveraged LangChain, Crewai, and custom homebrew agent framework

  • Implemented production-ready autonomous agents for real-world tasks

• MCP Working Group Contributions

  - Present

  Active participant in Model Completion Protocol (MCP) community development

  • Member of the MCP Hosting Working Group

  • Developed strategies for deploying and running MCP servers at scale

  • Contributed to Dart SDK, Express tool for binding to MCP servers

  • Developed various MCP servers (Hirebase, Candidate Job Search, Text Extraction)

  • Created GitOps tool for MCP deployments

  • Operate publicly available MCP servers for community testing

• LLM-Driven Mobile App

  - Present

  Developed a mobile application with a Tinder-like LLM interface

  • Built intuitive swipe-based interface for interacting with LLMs

  • Implemented AI-driven content generation and response system

  • Created responsive mobile-first user experience

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