Solutions Architect with a strong DevSecOps background and over 7 years of experience across high-impact, mission-critical environments.
My career started in the U.S. military and IT help desk, then grew into supporting large-scale, critical infrastructure at Meta and the U.S. Department of State, and now into pre-sales solution architecture at GitLab, where I help customers design and adopt secure, scalable delivery workflows.
| Focus | Details |
|---|---|
| Languages | Go, Ruby on Rails, Python |
| Networking | Cisco Routing & Switching |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform, Ansible |
| Monitoring & Observability | Prometheus, Grafana |
| Containerization | Docker, K8s |
| CI/CD | GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc |
| Server & Virtualization | Proxmox, VMWare |
| Cloud Platforms | AWS, GCP |
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Solutions Architect @ GitLab (October 2025 – Present)
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Site Reliability Engineer @ U.S. Department of State (February 2024 – October 2025)
- Deployed and continuously monitored multiple AWS EKS clusters in alignment with stakeholder‑defined service level objectives and performance requirements.
- Led migration of a legacy GitLab instance to a distributed system scaled to support up to 3,000 users on AWS.
- Built Python automation to streamline business logic and most notably to deliver continuous reporting for our org in support of the Share IT Act.
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Systems Administrator @ Meta (February 2022 – February 2024)
- Supported global operations teams to ensure the continuous reliability and availability of critical physical security systems deployed on VMWare and managed via Terraform and Ansible.
- Responded to high-severity incidents (SEVs), provided real-time operational support, and contributed to post-incident root cause analysis.
