I'm always looking to advance not just myself, but those around me. I have a bit of a unique style of teaching, but I find that it is important to learn the "why" and not just the "how". I have a particular interest in AI systems and run my own self-hosted lab specifically to work with and learn more about them. In my spare time I enjoy working on personal servers, home automation projects, cars and motorcycles.
Design and implement new technologies easing difficulty for developers enabling more rapid time to production.
Implement a Kubernetes infrastructure utilizing Amazon EKS ensuring high scalability and maintainability by leveraging multiple node groups, spot instances where appropriate and both cluster and application level autoscaling.
Work with development teams to ensure they are able to fully leverage the capabilities inherent in the AWS-based architecture (EKS, EBS, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, CloudFront) allowing them to focus on the core requirements of software as opposed to maintaining "boilerplate".
Build atop the basics provided by EKS to provide a highly secure and feature-rich platform, not just infrastructure or hardware.
Utilize a combination of self-operated and cloud provided tooling where appropriate to balance capability and cost.
Ensure a unified management of infrastructure across both cloud and datacenter footprints allowing teams to have similar deployment experiences
Research industry leading technologies and methodologies to maintain the modern status of deployed infrastructure.
Prioritize and lead a team of engineers to implement reliable solutions on time.
Educate and assist other engineers to allow them to maintain current skill sets as well as develop new ones.
Maintain visibility on budgetary concerns ensuring responsible use of available funding.
Work with front-end developers and architects to design an efficient and manageable CDN infrastructure built atop AWS CloudFront
Worked with networking and security teams to introduce AWS Direct Connect to better integrate Cloud and On-Prem footprints.
