Reliability and data engineer focused on observability, scalability, and performance. I take ownership of the systems I build and lead with transparency and accountability. Known as a servant leader who enables teams to move faster and with greater confidence. Open source contributor, see GitHub for recent work. Open to fractional or mission-driven roles.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, House Rx
Mar, 2023 - Oct, 20252 years 6 months
Managed geo-distributed multidisciplinary team
Owned infrastructure, reliability, and release management for a PHI-regulated platform on Kubernetes
Maintained and extended self-hosted LGTM observability stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)
Automated CI/CD and dependency management with GitHub Actions and Terraform
Led incident management process redesign, improving MTTR and postmortem quality
Senior Database Engineer, Collectors
Sep, 2022 - Mar, 20236 months
Supported infrastructure and reliability efforts across cloud-hosted systems
Developed full hackathon project upgrading PSA slab QR codes with 4× resiliency to surface damage, including benchmarking suite and performance analysis
Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Flatiron Health
May, 2020 - Aug, 20222 years 3 months
Co-led AccessAbility ERG to improve accessibility and inclusion across engineering
Created and maintained open-source sqlserver Ansible collection (100k+ downloads) to automate and scale client database management
Implemented a novel SQL Server cloning approach enabling ephemeral branch deployments of the oncology platform
Optimized AWS storage configurations during internal hackathon, saving over $80k annually
Data Engineer, jet.com / Walmart eCommerce
Apr, 2019 - May, 20201 year 1 month
Application Database Administrator, JetBlue Airways
Jul, 2017 - Mar, 20191 year 8 months
Managed remote contractors
Database Administrator, New Classrooms (non-profit)
Apr, 2015 - Aug, 20172 years 4 months
Database Administrator, Arup
Jul, 2014 - Apr, 20159 months
Technology Analyst / DBA, JPMorgan Chase
Jun, 2011 - Jul, 20143 years 1 month
Feb, 2023 - Present
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🥄 A cross-platform Ansible collection using PowerShell to configure and maintain SQL Server. Included in the official Ansible community collection.
SQL Server (Always On, HA/DR)
Amazon RDS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Query Optimization
Performance Tuning
Replication & Backup Strategy
T-SQL / ANSI SQL
dbt
Data Modeling
ETL Design
Python (automation, data pipelines)
TypeScript / JavaScript
Node.js
Infrastructure as Code / IaC
PowerShell / PowerShell Core
bash
Linux System Administration
Windows Server Automation
Kubernetes (EKS / AKS)
kustomize
Serverless
Helm
Terraform
Containers
LGTM (Loki, Grafana) & Prometheus
Architecture
Ansible
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
AWS / Azure / GCP
Monitoring & Observability (DataDog, New Relic, Sentry)
Incident Management
Airflow
YAML / JSON
Git
Information Technology w/ concentration in Databases, BS, Rochester Institute of Technology
Sep, 2008 - May, 2012
Analytics: Essential Tools and Methods Micromaster Certificate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Issued on: Aug 31, 2020