About
Platform engineer with 8+ years of experience building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers modern software delivery. I focus on Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps workflows, and developer tooling that helps teams ship faster and more safely. I've worked in both fast-growing startups and established enterprises, always with an eye toward reliability, scalability, and reducing toil through automation.
Professional Experience
- Designed and deployed a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS serving 40+ microservices across staging, canary, and production environments.
- Built internal developer platform (IDP) with Backstage, reducing onboarding time for new services from 3 days to under 4 hours.
- Implemented GitOps deployment pipelines using ArgoCD and Helm, achieving zero-downtime deployments with automated rollbacks.
- Led migration from monolithic Terraform state to modular, per-service configurations, improving plan times by 70%.
- Mentored a team of 4 junior platform engineers through on-call rotations and incident postmortems.
- Owned the CI/CD pipeline for a data platform handling 2TB+ of daily ingestion, reducing failed deployments by 55%.
- Introduced Prometheus and Grafana for cluster-wide observability, creating 30+ dashboards and 120+ alerting rules.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform across AWS accounts, managing 500+ cloud resources.
- Containerized legacy monolithic applications into Docker-based microservices with zero customer impact.
- Managed 200+ Linux servers across on-premises and AWS environments with 99.95% uptime.
- Automated routine maintenance tasks using Bash and Python, reclaiming 15+ hours per week of manual work.
- Assisted in HIPAA compliance audits by implementing access controls and audit logging infrastructure.
Selected Projects
An open-source Kubernetes operator that enforces organizational policies at admission time using Open Policy Agent. Validates deployments against 50+ built-in rules covering security, resource limits, and naming conventions.
Serverless tool that periodically compares live AWS resource states against Terraform state files, detects configuration drift, and sends Slack notifications with suggested remediation steps.