Lead DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable cloud solutions. Proven record of leading high-performing teams, driving DevOps transformation, and delivering resilient serverless and containerized architectures. Former Amazonian, skilled at building CI/CD pipelines, enabling observability, improving release velocity, and implementing disaster recovery and cloud security strategies. Experienced in close collaboration with developers to accelerate delivery of business-critical features.
Available for contract and consulting engagements — infrastructure design, cloud migrations, CI/CD standardization, and developer platform work.
Core Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, Redshift, Bedrock, AgentCore)
- Terraform · CloudFormation · AWS CDK
- Disaster recovery design · Cost optimization · Security best practices
- Infrastructure-as-Code module authoring
Containerization & Orchestration
- Kubernetes (EKS) · Amazon ECS
- Cluster operations · Autoscaling · Service networking
CI/CD & DevOps
- GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, org-wide standards)
- GitLab CI · Bitbucket Pipelines
- Repository governance · Pipeline design
Observability
- Datadog: APM, RUM, Distributed Tracing, Log Management, Synthetic Testing
- Prometheus · Grafana
- Alerting design · SLI/SLO frameworks
Developer Platforms
- Backstage — Internal Developer Portal design and deployment
- Self-service infrastructure templates
- Golden-path tooling
AI & Automation
- Claude Code · Skills registry · Custom hooks · Autonomous agents
- AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases · AgentCore services
Data Infrastructure
- MongoDB · Amazon Redshift · RDS · S3 Data Lake
- Zero-ETL integrations
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional