Site Reliability, Platform & Cloud Security Engineering Leader

Led SRE for a $220M ad-tech business through its acquisition by RateGain. Owned the Google Cloud organization and led a distributed team that grew from two to four engineers, then expanded to 11 engineers across the US, Ireland, and India after team mergers. The role was eliminated during an August 2026 reorganization.

Operated 13 production GKE clusters and more than 400 services, including a seven-region ingest tier handling 5,000 to 10,000 events per second. Maintained a 99.99% availability SLO, participated in on-call, led reliability and security incident response, and ran blameless postmortems.

Led cloud platform modernization through Terraform, Codefresh, Argo CD, GitHub Enterprise, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Google Cloud services. Designed the migration of 50+ applications from Kubernetes Ingress to Gateway API and implemented security controls including Workload Identity, Secret Manager, External Secrets Operator, IAM governance, and CI/CD security scanning.

Built Vertex AI and ADK-based agents for BigQuery access, IAM drift remediation, Security Command Center triage, migrations, onboarding, and Gemini Enterprise. Also managed data services, supported SOC 2 and PCI DSS audits, and led a cost initiative that identified more than $120K per month in Google Cloud savings.

Managed approximately 400 Linux systems across on-premises VMware and AWS environments supporting Java Spring applications. Codified AWS infrastructure in Terraform and built provisioning pipelines using Chef and Packer.

Designed and deployed a company-wide ELK logging stack. Operated self-hosted GitLab CI, RabbitMQ, MariaDB, and Vault, and migrated microservices to Nomad and Consul.

Partnered with the compliance team on SOX audits by gathering evidence, contributing to policy development, and remediating findings.

Migrated production databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime and moved infrastructure from EC2 Classic to VPC. Automated deployments across four environments using Chef, Ansible, and Jenkins.

Supported DevOps automation and AWS infrastructure modernization for production services in a remote engineering environment.

Joined as part of a startup environment and operated 50 production and 20 development Linux systems on AWS and Rackspace serving more than 40 million daily requests. Built a 24-node Hadoop cluster and an 18-node HBase cluster on EC2 processing more than 20TB of anonymized user data.

Built IPSec VPN connectivity between EC2, offices, and colocation facilities. Supported the growth and operational reliability of a high-volume online platform.

Led two production infrastructure migrations from physical servers to a VMware private cloud and then to Rackspace Cloud. These migration efforts delivered more than $450K in annual savings.

Supported production network and systems operations in a high-volume email and web infrastructure environment.

Managed more than 150 email and web systems handling approximately 70 million emails per day. Supported technical operations, reliability, and production systems for high-volume services.

Worked across server and application infrastructure to maintain operational availability and scalable delivery.

Managed 140 RHEL systems supporting more than 300 hosted applications. Led a colocation migration that saved more than $70K annually.

Provided team leadership and systems engineering support for production Linux hosting infrastructure.

Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems.