Experience¶
Nearly 20 years building software — from full-stack web development to platform engineering and DevOps leadership. For the full picture, check out my LinkedIn.
DevOps Tech Lead¶
- Architect and maintain AWS infrastructure for client applications serving organizations like NASA, Mozilla, PBS, and UNICEF
- Core engineer on AppPack, Lincoln Loop's platform for simplifying AWS deployments and CI/CD
- Manage ECS services, Terraform modules, and deployment pipelines across multiple client environments
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices and production reliability for a remote-first consultancy with 15+ year client relationships
DevOps, Platform and Backend Consultant¶
- Independent consulting focused on DevOps, platform engineering, and backend development
- Worked with clients on infrastructure architecture, deployment automation, and Python-based systems
Staff Engineer¶
- Staff-level engineering at a healthcare communications startup in Burlington, Vermont
Senior Staff Engineer¶
- Served as a "floating Architect" across Developer Acceleration teams, facilitating Wayfair's migration from monolith to service-based architecture
- Evaluated and proposed early adoption of Spotify's Backstage as Wayfair's next-generation developer portal — it went on to become the primary interface for thousands of engineers
- Embedded with the Keycloak team, helping architect and deploy the OIDC-based authentication platform to Kubernetes on GCP — became the de facto AuthN/AuthZ system for backend services
- Formed and facilitated the Engineering Docs Guild, spreading ownership of the MkDocs-based technical documentation system and guiding best practices across the organization
Staff Engineer — Python Platforms / Dev Acceleration¶
- Founding member of Python Platforms — led R&D on running Python in containers deployed to Kubernetes, helping Python surpass PHP as the most-used language for production services at Wayfair
- Architected the multi-stage/onbuild Docker infrastructure underpinning all Python-based services on Kubernetes, including defenses against supply chain attacks
- Led evaluation and proposed adoption of Buildkite for CI/CD — now powers all of Wayfair's deployment processes
- Built and maintained the MkDocs-based documentation platform used by hundreds of engineers across thousands of repositories
- Founding member of Dev Acceleration, applying DevOps and Accelerate principles to drive organizational transformation
Infrastructure Architect — InfraNext¶
- Founding member of an infrastructure R&D team evaluating next-generation platforms (Mesos vs Kubernetes) for the entire organization — Kubernetes was ultimately chosen
- Proposed and received buy-in to deploy Artifactory as the de facto artifact repository for all teams
- Lead SRE for the Cache team, owning and maintaining centralized Redis and Memcached clusters backed by Twemproxy
Software Architect¶
- Led transformational engineering change at this Google Ventures-backed end-to-end marketplace for custom-made goods
- Overhauled the Django backend into a modular, RESTful API architecture and modernized the frontend to an MVC pattern with BackboneJS
- Built Puppetized Vagrant infrastructure, cutting engineer onboarding from a week to hours
- Introduced ChatOps, CI/CD with Jenkins and Selenium, and observability with StatsD and DataDog
- Migrated nearly 1TB of image assets to a modern architecture on AWS