Jesse

Cloud and platform engineer with 12+ years of progressive software experience across infrastructure automation, production operations, reliability engineering, and developer enablement. Builds AWS and Kubernetes platforms, Docker-based delivery standards, Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, release controls, and incident-response practices. Combines hands-on automation with capacity planning, performance analysis, security-aware delivery, and clear production ownership.

Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer - Lyric - Newtown Square, PA

(2022-08 - 2026-07)

• Led cloud and platform practices for backend, AI, web, and mobile teams, standardizing Docker and Kubernetes delivery patterns on AWS and Amazon EKS.
• Built CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, including automated tests, validation gates, versioned artifacts, staged releases, and rollback.
• Improved sustained service throughput by 42% through load testing, profiling, query tuning, resource controls, and capacity planning.
• Implemented structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, Prometheus dashboards, Sentry alerts, health checks, and incident-response runbooks.
• Established reusable Terraform-oriented environment definitions and deployment documentation across development, test, staging, and production.
• Supported model-serving, backend, and data workloads with requests, limits, scaling policies, readiness checks, secrets handling, and controlled recovery.
• Led incident reviews and converted root causes into code changes, operational procedures, capacity adjustments, and architecture updates.

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer - Egen Solutions Inc - Naperville, IL

(2018-09 - 2022-07)

• Containerized training, inference, and backend workloads and supported Kubernetes execution across development, test, and production.
• Optimized distributed cloud training, reducing convergence time by 25%, and standardized model artifacts and environment configuration for repeatable releases.
• Integrated Jenkins, Git workflows, Prometheus metrics, Sentry monitoring, deployment validation, recovery procedures, and post-release support.
• Supported high-volume healthcare migration releases with reconciliation, controlled cutovers, hypercare, and root-cause analysis.
• Diagnosed memory, CPU, network, database, and queue bottlenecks across distributed applications.
• Standardized Docker images, environment variables, release artifacts, deployment checklists, and current runbooks.

Software & Platform Engineer - Vanta - San Francisco, CA

(2014-11 - 2018-08)

• Supported Java services, data pipelines, build systems, automated tests, and deployment workflows for customer-facing applications.
• Contributed to a data warehouse integrating 5+ source systems and created automated validation and quality-monitoring processes.
• Improved production support through reproducible deployment steps, configuration documentation, defect analysis, and release verification.
• Assisted with performance troubleshooting, database tuning, build configuration, and post-release issue resolution.

Application & Systems Support Developer - Meta - Menlo Park, CA

(2013-08 - 2014-08)

• Reproduced production issues, validated fixes, maintained release checklists, and assisted with application and database deployments.
• Implemented small Java, SQL, API, and configuration changes under review and documented operational impact.
• Built a foundation in Linux troubleshooting, release discipline, customer communication, and dependable production support.

Master of Science - Computer Science - University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2013)

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science - Globe College (2010)

High School Diploma - Hudson High School (2007)