Bio

Senior certified level 3 (Thought Leader) Cloud Software Engineer (GoLang/Python/Java) in IBM Research designing and developing large, distributed cloud environments. Specializing in secret management and trusted identity as techniques to reduce the attack surface, and increase privacy and security. Currently designs, architects and develops solutions for IBM Cloud Kubernetes and OpenShift Service. Leads the Trusted Service Identity, an open-sourced project by IBM Research (https://github.com/IBM/trusted-service-identity) Focused on application and data protection, privacy, security, automation, resource management, and microservices. Experienced with public, private and hybrid clouds challenges and multi-cluster management. Designing, integrating and migrating workloads, applications, and services to the cloud. Several years of experience with containers in Kubernetes and Docker, Helm and OpenStack. Extensive experience in architecting innovative solutions, leading the technical team using agile development methodologies and practices. Using DevOps CI CD: GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible and Travis. Previously focused on performance and high availability, reliability, and scalability. Led the efforts of creating monitoring, alerting and reporting dashboards and tools for administrating Research Compute Cloud. Chargeback, Business Support Systems (BSS) and metering, event management, and tracking. Business layer processing and reporting. Data analysis and visualization. Deep knowledge of BIRT (Business Intelligent Reporting Tool) and ITM (IBM Tivoli Monitoring) Design and development of validation tools for complex topology deployment in a cloud (Software Defined Environment). Cloud monitoring and verification framework. IBM Master Inventor – 20 granted patents in 5 countries; over 25 patents filed. Served on patent advising and guiding committee. Specialties: Strong proponent of agile methodology. Object oriented design/analysis using use-case driven approach. GoLang, Python and Java development. Client/Server and API development using REST APIs, XML, SOAP, JavaScript. Lotus Notes Development.