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Summary
Site Reliability and Platform Engineer with 15+ years running Linux, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD for federal and enterprise organizations. Author of open-source rke2-ansible, adopted across federal Kubernetes deployments. Clearance-eligible (DOE background); uses AI tooling to cut operational toil.
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Experience
Dealer Tire
- Help manage multiple Kubernetes clusters
- Upgraded Rancher from 1.x to the latest release
- Helped migrate the Linux platform from RHEL to SUSE
- Set up telemetry for the company's Claude Code enterprise account
GV5 Technologies LLC
- Built and launched hardhatflow.com for a client; currently building an iOS app for a second client
- Developed Flask and Go services integrating Slack, Jira, and Google Calendar APIs to automate reporting, summaries, and team communication
- Built Kubernetes and Terraform/OpenTofu automation for repeatable, scalable deployments
webAI
- Designed and maintained multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms for distributed AI workloads, setting patterns for deployment, networking, and cluster operations across teams
- Led development of Terraform/OpenTofu modules and CI/CD workflows that standardized provisioning, reduced environment drift, and enabled consistent deployments across 5+ engineering teams
- Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment of production services
- Integrated security and operational best practices into infrastructure and pipelines to meet compliance requirements
- Supported day-two operations for production AI systems: monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Partnered with application teams on infrastructure best practices, reducing onboarding friction for new services
ServiceNow
- Engineered a GitLab CI pipeline that automated OS regression testing, cutting deployment cycles from 30 days to 3 days (90% improvement) and saving 270+ hours per release cycle
- Created and maintained 15+ Puppet modules for Dev and Prod environments, reducing manual intervention by 80%
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions
- Delivered Rancher, Kubernetes, and CNCF solutions to 10+ federal entities across classified and unclassified environments; resolved 200+ technical tickets supporting DevSecOps transformation
- Authored rke2-ansible (github.com/rancherfederal/rke2-ansible), an open-source configuration management solution adopted across federal Kubernetes deployments
- Supported the full SUSE Rancher product suite, including Multi-cluster Manager, Longhorn, and K3s
Sandia National Laboratories / Dept. of Energy
- Led Ansible configuration management expansion across national laboratory infrastructure, building CI pipelines that enabled 50+ departments to contribute code
- Designed multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure using Rancher
- Built a custom Molecule driver using Terraform for automated testing, reducing testing overhead by 60%
- Developed Python Flask applications for automated monitoring integration across 1,000+ endpoints, working with cybersecurity teams on national security compliance
Rackspace
- Built and maintained a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for a monolith-to-microservices migration on Google Kubernetes Engine
- Managed Infrastructure-as-Code deployments with Helm charts and day-two operations for 500+ Ubuntu servers
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- Provisioned and maintained 800+ Linux servers and workstations with Puppet; built OpenStack environments and managed GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters for deep learning
- Built fully automated CI/CD for multiple projects with GitLab CI and Jenkins, and migrated VM infrastructure to Docker containers
- Coded, deployed, and maintained enterprise Ruby on Rails applications
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