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Platform Engineer | Fullstack SWE | Cloud Security
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Platform and security-minded engineer with 8+ years building cloud infrastructure, internal platforms, and production software. At Cyderes, a managed security services provider, built the platform engineering function from the ground up and designs secure-by-default, multi-account cloud environments that support security operations at scale. Brings deep hands-on experience with identity and access management, cloud governance guardrails, secrets management, and security event data integrations, paired with full-stack development skills to turn security and reliability requirements into tooling engineers actually use.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer - CYDERES
(2022-04)
Key Accomplishment: Built Cyderes' platform engineering team from scratch. Defined the team's charter and multi-phase platform roadmap, authored the architecture decisions that set its technical direction, and designed the hiring process, including a hands-on technical challenge used to evaluate platform engineering candidates.
- Architect a secure, multi-account AWS foundation using Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform, enforcing governance guardrails, OU-based isolation, and centralized identity through IAM Identity Center.
- Lead the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiative; authored the architecture decision record establishing federated IaC ownership, an ECS Fargate golden path, a standard service manifest, and Vault-backed secrets management.
- Harden Kubernetes delivery on GKE with Argo CD GitOps behind Okta SSO, and External Secrets Operator to keep credentials out of source control.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party security event APIs and internal microservices that feed the security operations pipeline.
- Drive client-onboarding automation for managed security customers, reducing manual setup and configuration drift.
- Lead incident root-cause analyses for telemetry collection issues and drive fixes across Helm charts and collector configuration.
- Design reusable packages and developer tooling that accelerate engineering velocity company-wide; partner with leadership on technical strategy and technology evaluation.
Senior Software Engineer - RACKCOACH
(2020-02 - 2022-04)
- Owned feature development end-to-end across web and mobile platforms (React, React Native, Node.js).
- Designed and secured RESTful API endpoints powering core business operations.
- Led release management and CI/CD automation for iOS, Android, and web deployments.
- Improved UX through data-driven UI redesigns and performance optimizations.
- Partnered with product and design teams to translate business goals into scalable software.
Software Engineer - SIFTED
(2018-05 - 2020-02)
- Built and maintained AWS CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, improving deployment consistency and speed.
- Refactored legacy services to increase reliability and reduce build times by over 40%.
- Contributed to backend feature development on a high-traffic, data-driven logistics platform.
