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• Owner & Principal Consultant, SDLC Solutions

  Jun, 2022 - Present

  • Coached teams on DevOps practices, ceremonies, and CI/CD process optimization to improve deployment frequency and reliability.

  • Trained engineering teams on TLS certificate management and the implementation of self-hosted PKI frameworks for internal service security.

  • Architected enterprise Power BI dashboards to transform raw Jira Cloud metrics into actionable executive insights.

  • Designed ‘sdlc-bot,’ a modular Slack integration featuring a pluggable architecture to automate SDLC notifications.

  • Developing custom Jira-to-Miro integration patterns to enhance visual collaboration and roadmap synchronization.

• Software Engineer III, Principal, Uber

  Oct, 2022 - Jan, 20241 year 3 months

  • Managed SRE and infrastructure for a global, multi-node Atlassian Data Center cluster supporting 10M+ issues and 40K+ monthly users.

  • Architected the transition from legacy CloudFormation to Terraform, achieving platform-wide consistency and reducing manual configuration via Ansible.

  • Enhanced observability by rolling out Dynatrace and Elastic APM, establishing performance baselines that optimized instance sizing.

  • Developed custom integrations between Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack to automate incident response for global engineering teams.

• Principal DevOps Solutions Architect, Adaptavist

  May, 2019 - Oct, 20223 years 5 months

  • Orchestrated complex migrations of legacy Drupal and Atlassian applications to AWS (ECS/EKS) for global enterprise clients.

  • Architected enterprise-grade AWS environments following Well-Architected Framework principles, focusing on high availability and security.

  • Developed an enterprise DevOps Maturity Guide used by clients to benchmark engineering practices and map multi-year transformation journeys.

  • Led global technical enablement through bi-weekly seminars, whitepapers, and public webinars on DevSecOps and SDLC optimization.

• DevOps Engineer & Coach, RBC

  Jun, 2011 - May, 20197 years 11 months

  • Spearheaded enterprise-wide adoption of Ansible, establishing best practices for configuration management across thousands of Linux nodes.

  • Modernized software configuration for 1,300+ Linux machines using Puppet and custom scripting before leading the strategic migration to Ansible.

  • Provided Tier-3 support and architectural guidance for the enterprise DevOps toolchain, including GitHub Enterprise and UrbanCode Deploy.

• Sr. Java Developer & CI Administrator, LoyaltyOne (Travel Rewards Group)

  May, 2007 - Jun, 20114 years 1 month

  • Engineered a transition from commercial monitoring suites to open-source alternatives, resulting in an estimated $1M/year reduction in licensing costs.

  • Orchestrated the TravelOne build system, automating artifact creation and deployment, reducing deployment times from 2 hours to 30 minutes.

  • Acted as SME for performance testing and remediation, utilizing profiling tools to optimize high-traffic travel reward platforms.

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