Profile
Senior Cloud Engineer with 8 years designing and operating production infrastructure on AWS and GCP, specializing in Kubernetes-native architectures and infrastructure-as-code at scale. Reduced cloud spend by 34% at a 600-person SaaS company while improving p99 API latency by 41%. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and CKA-certified.
Work Experience
Senior Cloud EngineerMar 2021 - Present
Veridian Systems, Austin, TX
- Architected a multi-region AWS active-active failover platform serving 12M daily active users, achieving 99.98% uptime over 24 consecutive months.
- Redesigned EC2 and RDS fleet using Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and right-sizing automation, cutting monthly cloud bill from $480K to $317K (34% reduction).
- Led migration of 40+ microservices from ECS to EKS, reducing average deployment time from 22 minutes to 6 minutes and eliminating 3 annual outage events.
Cloud Infrastructure EngineerJun 2018 - Feb 2021
Lattice Data Co., Denver, CO
- Built Terraform-managed multi-account AWS Landing Zone for 9 product teams, cutting new environment provisioning from 4 days to under 90 minutes.
- Implemented Datadog-based observability stack with custom SLO dashboards, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) incidents by 58% across 6 production services.
- Automated certificate rotation and secrets management via HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, eliminating 100% of manual credential-rotation tickets.
Cloud EngineerAug 2016 - May 2018
Meridian Cloud Partners, Dallas, TX
- Migrated on-premises VMware workloads for 3 enterprise clients to AWS, delivering projects an average of 11 days ahead of schedule and under budget by 8%.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and CodePipeline for 14 application teams, increasing release frequency from bi-weekly to daily deploys.
- Created cost-allocation tagging framework adopted company-wide, enabling accurate per-team cloud spend reporting for the first time in company history.
Education
B.S. Computer Science2012 - 2016
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Concentration in Distributed Systems; Dean's List 2015–2016