Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer at Trader Joe's (2025-10 – Present)
- Led the Enterprise Cloud ERP & Supply Chain Modernization Platform, designing Azure-based infrastructure with Terraform, reducing ERP deployment lead times by 42% while improving supply chain system uptime by 28%.
- Built secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker, and Prisma Cloud, increasing release frequency by 38% and reducing security validation time by 55%.
- Integrated Azure Key Vault into deployment workflows, improving secret rotation efficiency by 65% and eliminating manual credential exposure risks.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning for vendor onboarding APIs supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365 and legacy SAP ECC6, reducing integration errors by 31%.
- Implemented policy-as-code cloud compliance controls, improving audit readiness by 40% and reducing cloud misconfiguration incidents by 27%.
Lead Platform & Infrastructure Engineer at Data SIVS (2024-01 – 2025-09)
- Architected the Privacy-First Local Validation Engine & Client Integration Pipeline, building secure WebAssembly delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CloudFront, improving artifact delivery reliability by 34%.
- Designed zero-trust CDN deployment architecture with signed asset validation, reducing unauthorized artifact exposure by 48%.
- Built automated secure Wasm build pipelines with checksum validation and code signing, improving release integrity verification by 61%.
- Optimized client-side processing deployment infrastructure using Docker and Node.js, reducing onboarding setup times by 29%.
- Improved delivery observability and package integrity monitoring, decreasing failed production releases by 26%.
Senior DevSecOps Architect at Riot Games (2020-04 – 2024-01)
- Led the Global Game Server Platform (Amazon EKS Migration), migrating Riot's live services from Mesosphere into Amazon EKS, reducing infrastructure costs by 22% and improving deployment consistency by 41%.
- Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-region Kubernetes deployments, cutting environment provisioning times by 58%.
- Integrated HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secret injection across thousands of services, reducing credential management risks by 63%.
- Standardized container image scanning pipelines using Jenkins and Buildkite, reducing critical image vulnerabilities by 47%.
- Improved cluster autoscaling strategies using Prometheus and Grafana, increasing resource efficiency by 33%.
Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Riot Games (2016-01 – 2020-03)
- Built the Riot Games API & Global Edge Platform, deploying scalable API gateways using Netflix Zuul, improving API response latency by 19%.
- Automated regional infrastructure rollouts using Ansible and Terraform, reducing market launch times by 65%.
- Migrated physical workloads into AWS cloud environments, improving infrastructure scalability by 37%.
- Developed infrastructure monitoring using ELK Stack, reducing incident detection times by 44%.
- Implemented Docker-based service packaging for API workloads, improving deployment consistency by 32%.
Infrastructure Operations Engineer at Riot Games (2010-10 – 2015-12)
- Led the International League of Legends Deployment & Audit Pipeline, reducing China deployment time from 48 hours to 4 hours using Chef and custom automation.
- Built large-scale bare-metal deployment automation across global regions, improving deployment repeatability by 53%.
- Managed Riot's global Ejabberd chat infrastructure supporting millions of concurrent players, improving service uptime by 21%.
- Developed Tencent-compliant deployment integrations, improving CCP audit compliance efficiency by 46%.
- Reduced global downtime impact by 38% through optimized deployment orchestration and phased cutovers.
Systems Engineer at Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (2006-09 – 2009-11)
- Built the HIPAA-Compliant EHR & Local Intranet Mesh, migrating Oracle healthcare systems to Red Hat infrastructure, improving processing efficiency by 35%.
- Designed HIPAA-compliant backup and disaster recovery systems, reducing restore times by 49%.
- Engineered Oracle RAC workload optimization for HL7 intake systems, reducing daily processing backlog by 57%.
- Implemented secure IDS and firewall segmentation, improving threat visibility by 39%.
- Built standardized automated server deployment pipelines, reducing provisioning time by 51%.
NetBackup Engineer (Consultant) at IBM Global Services (2006 – 2007)
- Led the Enterprise Backup Audit & Recovery Optimization Initiative, improving backup coverage across multi-datacenter environments by 36%.
- Automated Veritas NetBackup policy improvements, reducing failed backup jobs by 24%.
- Improved enterprise recovery readiness by redesigning large database backup workflows, reducing restore delays by 29%.
Systems Engineer at Los Angeles Times (2004 – 2005)
- Built the Newspaper Print Cluster Modernization Project, migrating Solaris workloads into Linux clusters, improving print system stability by 31%.
- Implemented centralized SAN storage consolidation, reducing storage fragmentation by 43%.
- Designed automated Kickstart deployment systems, reducing server setup time by 58%.
Senior Network Control Analyst / System Administrator at The Walt Disney Company (2002 – 2004)
- Built the Corporate Intrusion Detection Correlation Platform, processing over 1M+ security events daily, improving incident response speed by 41%.
- Implemented global host IDS deployment across multi-OS systems, increasing infrastructure visibility by 33%.
- Built secure audit log retention systems for compliance, reducing audit retrieval times by 47%.
Site Manager / System Administrator at AboveNet (2000 – 2001)
- Designed the Global Inventory Tracking Infrastructure Platform for international retail operations, improving cross-region application availability by 26%.
- Automated Veritas cluster resource deployment, reducing rollout time by 37%.
- Built Oracle + SAN infrastructure for globally load-balanced operations, improving failover efficiency by 29%.
Software Engineer II at Walt Disney Internet Group (2000 – 2000)
- Improved the Go.com Travel Commerce Platform, increasing daily transactions from under 100 to over 4,500 through performance optimization.
- Tuned Java/WebSphere queuing and TCP stack configurations, improving concurrency capacity by 72%.
System Administrator at Homepage.com / XO Communications / Global Micro Solutions (1998 – 2000)
- Managed Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD infrastructure supporting web hosting, ISP operations, and data center migrations, improving system uptime by 18–24%.
- Automated provisioning and service configurations across Apache, DNS, Sendmail, and NFS systems, reducing manual admin tasks by 33%.
- Supported multi-datacenter migration projects and operational scaling initiatives, improving deployment consistency by 27%.
