Eight years building and securing AWS infrastructure at scale. Led a 13-engineer platform team in regulated environments where a deployment failure was not a bug. It had real consequences. Built for reliability, compliance, and scale.
Pursuing a deliberate transition into Cloud Security engineering. Studying for AWS Security Specialty and CompTIA Security+. Building hands-on DevSecOps portfolio with Checkov, Trivy, Falco, and OPA Gatekeeper.
Led platform engineering supporting connected medical devices in hospitals across the United States. Grew the DevOps and SRE team from 3 to 13 engineers. Maintained 99.99% production uptime. Led EC2 to EKS migration. Integrated Splunk with Kinesis for real-time security monitoring. Implemented IAM permission boundaries across AWS accounts. Integrated Okta SSO for all user types. HIPAA Compliant
Built foundational AWS infrastructure from scratch for Baxter's connected healthcare platform. Established CloudFormation-based IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability using Splunk and Dynatrace. Created hardened golden AMIs using Packer on RHEL. Deployed ECS with Docker. Wrote Python boto3 scripts for IQOQ compliance validation. HIPAA Compliant
Managed AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Built and maintained CI/CD workflows, server configuration, and monitoring solutions.
Amazon Web Services, AWS EKS and Kubernetes, CloudFormation and CDK, EC2, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, ASGs, Elastic Load Balancing, CodePipeline and CodeBuild, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Packer and Golden AMIs.
DevSecOps Engineering, HIPAA Technical Safeguards, SOC2 Type II Controls, AWS IAM and Permission Boundaries, AWS Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Checkov, Trivy, Falco, OPA Gatekeeper, Okta SSO and SAML.
Docker and Podman, Kubernetes via EKS, Helm Charts, AWS ECS and Fargate, Ingress Controllers, API Gateway, Blue/Green and Rolling Deployments.
Splunk with Kinesis integration, Dynatrace APM, AWS CloudWatch, log aggregation pipelines, incident response and SRE practices, blameless post-mortems.
Python and boto3, Shell and Bash scripting, Chef cookbooks and recipes, Ansible playbooks, Jenkins and SonarQube, Bitbucket and GitHub Actions, AI-assisted IaC development.
Engineering team leadership, platform roadmap ownership, cross-functional collaboration, Agile and Sprint management, HP ALM change management, vendor management, on-call incident command.
Actively exploring Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, and Platform Security roles. Target locations are Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden. Open to fully remote as well.