Experienced and data-driven Site Reliability Engineering leader with a track record of building cross-functional, geodistributed DevOps teams. Skilled at defining and implementing SRE best practices, driving innovation, with a strong focus on uptime and customer experience.
My strong mix of development and operations skills, deep experience with AWS, and understanding of the interplay between software development and operations have enabled me to build and lead high-performing teams that drive business results.
Helped lead the SRE team through the path to IPO and oversaw the completion of governance processes relevant to my teams
Interviewed M&A targets and helped develop the due dilligence processes for potential aquisitions with a focus on system architecture, system availability, technology stacks / depreciation, and operational readiness
Helped define divisional OKRs, and assisted in measuring the completion of R&D division goals on a quarterly basis
Developed cross functional SRE mentoring programs, to improve internal candidate pipelines, employee engagement + morale, and reduce attrition
Managed M&A integration from a deployment, system development, security and vulnerability management program standpoint
Presented to prospects and contributed to RFPs on the subjects of system availability, security defense in depth, vulnerability management, and cloud native technology adoption
Oversaw the execution and deliverables from network, system, release, network, and container platform engineering teams
Mentored and grew managers, along with individual contributors from a large cross-section of the business
Democratized operations and change management. Moved from constant firefighting to standard, repeatable, prompt process, without downtime for all patching, release, and administrative tasks. Developed and published OLAs to reduce friction and measure the success of process-driven Ops
Built out a Kubernetes focused team and partnered with development to launch our first microservices in EKS. Worked with leaders in Product and Development to build a comprehensive roadmap to Kubernetes in order to minimize infrastructure spend and release complexity, while maximizing uptime
Participated in the company's security and compliance steering committee, focused on providing world class protection for our systems and customer data
