Experience

2021 — PRESENT

Senior Software Engineer · Tanium

Drive AI and platform capabilities in a DevOps role to enable developers and automate manual tasks — spanning CI/CD, GitHub platform governance, and AI enablement with hands-on training, workshops, and onboarding across the engineering org.

• ▹Core contributor to the GitHub Actions runner fleet — over 14 million job runs to date on ephemeral EKS nodes, ARM64, macOS (MacStadium), and Windows ARC runners across 6+ GitHub orgs
• ▹Led Windows ARC runner support on EKS including a hardened AMI pipeline and Windows Server 2022 image build on Oxide Computing infrastructure
• ▹Led MacStadium macOS runner integration into GitHub Actions — IaC for networking, service accounts, and runner registration enabling macOS CI for previously unsupported teams
• ▹Led end-to-end build of the enterprise AWS Bedrock AI platform: API Gateway + WAF, Lambda provisioner, DynamoDB usage tracking, KMS encryption, cross-region inference profiles
• ▹Designed and authored the enterprise AI governance framework — risk-based Policy as Code with tiered approval workflows and data access classification
• ▹Delivered AI training workshops and led onboarding sessions for engineering teams across the company as part of the AI enablement initiative
• ▹Designed and led development of the GitHub org-as-code platform — Pulumi-based self-service for repos, teams, branch protections, secrets, and rulesets via PR-driven GitOps
• ▹Architected and executed Terraform to Pulumi IaC migration for all GitHub organization configurations across 6 orgs
• ▹Delivered AL2 to Amazon Linux 2023 migration for EKS runner fleet and Artifactory infrastructure with zero CI/CD downtime
• ▹Resolved 600+ DevOps support tickets as primary escalation point for CI/CD platform issues across all engineering

2019 — 2021

Software Developer — CI/CD · Rackspace Technology

Built and managed CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for Kubernetes-based deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• ▹Created CircleCI CI/CD pipelines automating GitHub releases and Helm chart deployments, saving engineers 100+ hours per month
• ▹Deployed self-hosted GitHub Action runners to Kubernetes via Helm and created workflows for in-depth K8s component testing
• ▹Developed a Python application and Grafana dashboard collecting performance metrics from GitHub, CircleCI, and Jira
• ▹Built a Python CLI tool to mass-manage GitHub repository settings, CODEOWNERS, and workflow files across the org
• ▹Integrated SAST scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines and created a private CircleCI Orb to standardize CI/CD functions

2017 — 2019

Cloud Engineer · Discover Financial Services

Automated cloud platform operations and championed DevOps culture adoption across business units.

• ▹Automated deployments and management of Pivotal Cloud Foundry foundations and Gemfire clusters, reducing manual tasks by 75%
• ▹Fully automated a manual patching task that took the full team 48 hours, reduced to a single button push
• ▹Led a department-wide sprint/hackathon improving customer engagement processes through automation
• ▹Identified up to 20 non-compliant applications weekly and consulted teams on cloud-native, 12-factor, CI/CD standards
• ▹Provided DevOps consultation for 4 business units and presented a 5-step culture change process to senior management

2016 — 2017

Senior Associate Programmer · Discover Financial Services

Banking and Lending Platform DevOps — built observability dashboards and led DevOps adoption initiatives.

• ▹Designed 5 KPI dashboards in Kibana and AppDynamics to monitor core banking and lending platform performance
• ▹Developed CI/CD pipelines for 4 different business units adopting DevOps practices
• ▹Managed 2 new projects end-to-end including documentation, status meetings, and timeboxed deliverables

2013 — 2016

Associate Programmer · Discover Financial Services

Regulatory Data Services — translated Federal Reserve Board requirements into technical implementations.

• ▹Translated quarterly Federal Reserve Board requirements into Fry14 Regulatory Reporting implementations with 45-day cycle time, preventing fines up to $500,000
• ▹Spearheaded a web-based metadata and data governance tool that converted a 6-month manual validation task to an automated job
• ▹Mentored 5 new hires and trained 20+ teams on improved workflows

2012 — 2013

Student Worker · Northern Illinois University — Digital Convergence Lab

Programmed and debugged educational video games using Kinect SDK, C#, XNA, and Unity3D.

• ▹Involved in product life cycles from design to post-release support
• ▹Managed and updated software on 25 lab machines and maintained a lab server

2012

Summer BT Intern · Discover Financial Services

Developed web applications to manage company assets using PHP, MySQL, and Ab Initio.