Bio

Cloud Technologist and DevOps Evangelist with progressive experience in developing enterprise technology plans, prioritizing strategic initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of highly reliable and scalable systems / software. Career track record of providing world-class business and enterprise technology solution program management with expertise in managing the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivering service-oriented architectures, design patterns and web services. Excel at bridging the gap between business, products and technology, and bringing to market disruptive solutions that address unmet customer needs. Exceptional architecture instincts with the ability to work with virtual and local project teams across technology strategy, systems engineering, software design and vendor evaluation. Committed to rapid iterations and endless learning. Open Source advocate for OpenTelmetry, committed the rewrite for OpenTelmetry-Demo rust service from Golang to Rust. Delivered presentations and content to wide audiences at top industry conferences like KubeCon and Cloud Foundry Summit to thousands of engineers, driving brand awareness, evangelizing software practices and disseminating skills across the industry. Drove value of 40%->87% maintained projects in open source, tracked over 5k projects and their 1 million+ dependencies across the company to understand vulnerability exposure data and track licensing compliance. Delivered 95th percentile under 10 minute CI/CD platform transformation from GitLab to Buidlkite, Scaled infrastructure from 0->1000's of agents for production deployment infrastructure using Terraform, Puppet, Salt. Provides guidance, leadership, mentorship through strong written and oral communication skills and industry presentations/workshops. DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer, Staff Software Engineer. All names accepted and welcome.