Position Statement
I am a Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience in devops, automation, continuous delivery, cloud technologies, and linux administration. I have supported a wide range of software projects ranging from single instance applications to enterprise-level, dynamically scaling setups. I strive to deliver solutions that are simple, efficient, resilient and scalable. In my next role, I seek challenging problems in an environment that values technical excellence and prioritizes application and platform security.
Education & Certificates
M.S. Software Engineering — DePaul University (2019)
B.S. Computer Science — DePaul University (2016)
Certified Terraform Associate — HashiCorp (2025)
Work Experience
Ion Analytics
Leading a team of Platform and DevOps engineers at ION Analytics, a capital-markets intelligence platform, to improve the security, stability, and scalability of acquired products, drive their adoption into company standards and patterns, and contribute to enhancing those patterns.
Lead Platform Engineer — March 2024 → PRESENT
Senior Platform Engineer — October 2023 → March 2024
Traveled to oversee projects, collaborate with staff, and plan initiatives in Chicago; Budapest, Hungary; and Changsha, China.
Overseeing the migration of the core docker application platform from CloudFormation, HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, and Vaul= to AWS ECS, AWS Secrets Manager, and HashiCorp Terraform to conform to parent company’s standards.
Developing GitHub Actions and Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines, helping developers move code through testing and multi-region production environments.
The platform lead for the Oracle to Postgres migration, driving the execution across environments and supported development in the application migration and transition.
Established GitOps workflows to ensure secure, repeatable, and scalable software deployments.
Periodically acted as an internal consulting being embedded on teams to provide feedback, insights, and recommendations.
Migrated docker image security scanning from Rapid7 to Aqua Trivy after a license change, enabling pre-deployment scans, production monitoring, and saving costs.
Attending in roadmap planning, scope assessments, standups, and retrospective to ensure project alignment.
Implemented dynamic EC2 instances for Jenkins agents, leading to a 60% decrease in Jenkins agent costs by replacing static instances with on-demand instances.
Performed upgrades for AWS EKS clusters, automating the originally manual process, which reduced the hands on keyboard time from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
Backstop Solutions
At Backstop Solutions a cloud-based productivity and reporting platform for investment and financial firms (later acquired by ION Analytics), I assisted in migrating resources from datacenters to the cloud, led the transition from static to on-demand assets in compliance with SOC2 requirements, and advanced to lead the DevOps team.
Senior DevOps Engineer — October 2020 → October 2023
DevOps Engineer — June 2019 → September 2020
Rewrote a Ruby on Rails + SQLite app to a containerized Django/Postgres stack using Docker and RDS, improving supportability and reliability.
Created a code approval audit script to verify compliance from testing to deployment, flag deviations for remediation, and provide auditors with control validation evidence.
Developed Jira, Jenkins, and GitLab integrations to enforce compliance, security, and development procedures.
Provision AWS service resources through CloudFormations, Terraform, awscli and Python-boto3.
Discovery Education
Supported core projects at Discovery Education, a global digital learning platform, advanced to leading organization-wide initiatives, and contributed to the company’s AWS disaster recovery strategy.
System Engineer — August 2016 → August 2019
Jr. System Engineer — August 2015 → August 2016
Infrastructure Intern — June 2015 → August 2015
Assisted in developing an AWS disaster recovery strategy with Terraform, EC2, RDS, and Puppet to enhance system resilience.
Administered Elasticsearch clusters, optimizing performance and troubleshooting issues.
Led organization-wide Puppet version upgrades, ensuring all systems remained up-to-date with the latest stable release.
Led migration of 200TB Gluster volume to AWS S3, leveraging AWS Snowball to reduce data transfer costs.
Maintained the SDLCs for Java Coldfusion/Lucee and Flask web applications in a docker environment.
Maintained content media publishing pipeline, processing media with Handbrake and storing assets in S3.
Skills
CI/CD & DevOps Practices — Jenkins, Jenkinsfiles, Github Actions, Github, GitLab
Cloud Infrastructure — AWS, Hashicorp, Heroku
Security — Lacework, Rapid7, Sentinel One, Wiz
Datastores — Postgres, Oracle, Aurora, Elasticsearch, Redis, SQLite
Languages — Python, Bash, Groovy, Ruby, Powershell
Observability — Pagerduty, Pingdom, Splunk, Grafana, Nagios, Datadog
Configuration Management — Puppet, Ansible, Terraform
Containerization — Docker, Docker Compose, Nomad
The rest — JFrog Artifactory, Selenium, Git, Vagrant, Jira,
Personal Achievements
Have visited 10 countries; My favorite experience was diving the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Completed the 5k, 10k, and 15k Tough Mudder Runs.
Taught Intro to Computer Science courses at my alma mater, DePaul University. (This was my covid hobby.)