Engineering Leader at GoFractional (2023-10 – Present)
Embedded DevOps/SRE leadership across high-growth portfolio companies, driving platform reliability, infrastructure scalability, and engineering team performance.
- Hired, mentored, and managed distributed engineering teams across portfolio companies, including on-call rotations, performance cycles, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Owned SLOs/SLIs, incident response, and post-mortem culture across 8+ companies, sustaining 99.9% uptime on critical customer-facing systems
- Delivered $500K+ annual cost optimizations through FinOps implementations and infrastructure rightsizing initiatives
- Led pipeline modernization and GitOps adoption, cutting deployment cycle times by 40%
- Designed Kubernetes-based (Terraform, AWS) deployment architectures and multi-cloud strategies supporting rapid business scaling
- Advised portfolio companies on practical AI adoption including LLM integration for customer support automation, AI-powered code review workflows, and evaluation frameworks for build-vs-buy decisions on emerging AI tools
AVP of Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure at Flexiti Financial (2023-01 – 2023-10)
Led 40-person engineering organization supporting FinTech growth and Mastercard partnership
- Managed $8M engineering budget while scaling team of 40 professionals across DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Infrastructure functions
- Delivered next-generation platform architecture enabling Mastercard partnership and supporting projected 40% revenue growth
- Restructured DevOps/SRE organization improving system reliability and reducing customer-impacting incidents by 50%
- Achieved 13% AWS cost reduction ($400K annually) through strategic resource optimization while maintaining performance standards
- Redefined IT support structure for 200-person call center, ensuring 99.8% operational uptime during peak customer interactions
- Negotiated and managed $2M+ in vendor relationships, optimizing contracts for cost-effectiveness and strategic alignment
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Wonolo (2022-08 – 2022-11)
Drove infrastructure strategy and operational excellence for marketplace platform
- Delivered 8% infrastructure cost reduction while maintaining 99.99% uptime SLAs for revenue-critical marketplace operations
- Advised engineering teams on architectural best practices supporting platform scalability for growing gig economy marketplace
- Implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems tracking key business metrics including transaction volume and user engagement
- Championed CI/CD best practices enabling multiple daily deployments while maintaining zero-downtime operations
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Daylight Automation (2017-11 – 2022-08)
Built and scaled infrastructure supporting national healthcare initiatives and enterprise clients
- Hired and developed 15-person engineering team including Software Engineers, DevOps specialists, and Security professionals
- Architected and delivered COVID-19 vaccination platform for Shoppers Drug Mart, achieving 1,000 TPS and supporting millions of Canadians
- Led infrastructure expansion from single enterprise client to 15+ customers, demonstrating scalability and market adaptability
- Directed enterprise-grade multi-cloud implementation across Azure, GCP, and AWS, ensuring redundancy and business continuity
- Attained SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI compliance with ISO-27001 roadmap, enabling enterprise customer acquisition and partnership opportunities
- Maintained 99.99% availability while enabling multiple daily deployments, implementing comprehensive KPI tracking and performance optimization
- Executed budget planning and resource allocation for infrastructure operations, optimizing costs while ensuring scalability for business growth
Senior DevOps/Lead Security Engineer at Influitive Corporation (2017-01 – 2017-11)
Led security transformation and infrastructure modernization for SaaS platform
- Achieved ISO-27001 compliance and implemented enterprise security frameworks enabling Fortune 500 customer acquisition
- Successfully migrated from Cloud 66 to DC/OS utilizing Mesos and Docker, improving scalability and operational efficiency
- Introduced Prometheus and Grafana monitoring platforms, improving system visibility and reducing MTTR by 40%
- Configured custom Elasticsearch clusters for high-value services, optimizing search performance and ensuring data integrity
Lead DevOps Engineer at Blueprint Software Systems (2015-06 – 2017-01)
Established DevOps practice and led cloud transformation initiative
- Founded and managed DevOps team, collaborating with R&D leadership to establish yearly goals and KPIs aligned with business objectives
- Led comprehensive migration from on-premise to AWS infrastructure, including database migration and application modernization
- Implemented continuous delivery using Jenkins and introduced Git/GitHub workflows, accelerating development velocity by 35%
- Pioneered Ansible-based configuration management, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual intervention by 75%
