Technical profile
Senior IT systems engineer with 12 years keeping critical infrastructure online. I design, automate and harden cloud and on-prem systems — and I'm the person on call when things break at 3am. Strong bias for automation, observability and clean runbooks.
Work experience
Own the Kubernetes platform serving 16M customers. Led the migration from VMs to containers and cut infrastructure cost 38%.
Built CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. Reduced deployment time from hours to minutes.
Managed Linux fleet, networking and backups for a telecom data center. Maintained 99.95% service availability.
Infrastructure projects
Zero-downtime K8s migration
CloudMigrated 200+ services from VMs to a self-healing Kubernetes cluster with no customer-facing downtime.
Observability stack
MonitoringRolled out Prometheus + Grafana + Loki, cutting mean-time-to-detect from 25 min to under 3.
IaC platform
AutomationCodified all infrastructure in Terraform modules, enabling reproducible environments in minutes.
Backup & DR
ResilienceDesigned cross-region backup and disaster-recovery with tested 15-minute RTO.
Incident & problem solving
Diagnosed a cascading replication failure during peak load, promoted a healthy replica and restored service in 8 minutes. Wrote the post-mortem and automation to prevent recurrence.
Detected and absorbed a 40Gbps volumetric attack using rate-limiting and CDN rules with zero downtime for customers.
Traced a slow memory leak across microservices to a misconfigured connection pool, patched it and added an alert.
Technology stack
Cloud & infra
Observability
Languages
Certifications
- CKA — Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF · 2024
- AWS Solutions Architect — ProfessionalAmazon · 2023
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)Red Hat · 2021
Available for hire
Looking for senior SRE / platform engineering roles. Let's talk infrastructure.