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Summary
Platform Engineer with 15+ years building and automating cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and DevSecOps — from federal labs and enterprise SaaS to AI workload platforms. Founder of GV5 Technologies, delivering modular infrastructure solutions and API integrations for modern organizations.
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Experience
GV5 Technologies LLC
- Platform engineering & automation with Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and CI/CD pipelines
- Application & API integrations using Flask, Go, Slack, Jira, and Google Calendar
- Modular systems design for AI deployments and cloud-native infrastructure
webAI
- Designed multi-cluster Kubernetes platform architecture for AI workloads
- Standardized Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure patterns across 5+ engineering teams
- Optimized CI/CD pipelines and integrated DevSecOps practices
ServiceNow
- Built GitLab CI pipeline to automate OS regression tests — reduced deployment cycles from 30 days to 3 days (90% improvement)
- Created and maintained 15+ Puppet modules for Dev/Prod environments
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions
- Delivered Rancher/Kubernetes solutions to 10+ federal entities
- Authored RKE2-Ansible open source solution (github.com/rancherfederal/rke2-ansible)
- Resolved 200+ technical tickets across Rancher MCM, Longhorn, RKE, RKE2, and K3s
Sandia National Laboratory / Dept of Energy
- Led Ansible configuration management expansion across the Labs; built CI pipelines with GitLab runners on Rancher-built Kubernetes clusters
- Developed Python Flask applications for automated monitoring of 1000+ endpoints via Prometheus/Grafana
- Wrote Terraform templates; built custom Molecule driver for on-prem Azure Stack / OpenStack
Rackspace
- Led monolithic-to-microservices migration on Google Kubernetes Engine with fully automated CI/CD from commit to deployment
- Managed Helm charts for infrastructure-as-code; maintained 500+ Ubuntu servers across 5 global data centers
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- Developed and deployed Ruby on Rails applications; built GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines
- Provisioned and maintained 800+ Linux servers using Puppet
- Managed multiple Kubernetes clusters with GPU support (Nvidia DGX, IBM PowerAI)
ZeroLag Communications
- Automated detection and remediation of compromised customer servers
- Monitored servers and oversaw Security and Compliance for internal machines
HostGator.com LLC
- Zero-downtime website migrations using LAMP/IIS expertise
- Developed Bash/Python/Perl scripts to automate repetitive tasks
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Open Source Contributions
Kubernetes
Docker
HashiCorp Vagrant
RKE2
Spinnaker