About
25 years of hands-on infrastructure experience
From network cables to cloud-native architecture and still digging to root cause every time.
My story
Built from the ground up
I started my career as a Network Engineer and Systems Administrator — managing Linux environments, physical switches, and on-premise servers long before "the cloud" was a common phrase. That foundation gave me a way of thinking about infrastructure that most cloud-native engineers never develop: understanding what is actually happening at every layer of the stack.
Over time I moved into software development, writing backend services and automation tooling in Python, Go, and others. That stretch taught me how engineers think and what they need from the infrastructure running under them. It changed how I communicate and how I design systems.
Today I work as a Cloud Engineer and SRE, bridging development and operations. I help teams migrate to AWS, harden their architecture, and stop hemorrhaging money on cloud spend they never intended to run.
Approach
What I bring to your team
Specific strengths that come directly from how my career developed not from a vendor certification path.
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Full-stack infrastructure thinking
I understand what happens at every layer from kernel networking to Kubernetes scheduler decisions. That context lets me find problems that specialists who only know one layer will miss.
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Legacy migration without drama
I have done the hard migrations, complex legacy systems to AWS, lift-and-shift to re-architecture without taking the business offline in the process. The scars are useful.
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Automation first
Infrastructure as Code is not a preference it is the only way I work. Terraform and Ansible for reproducible, auditable environments. If it cannot be committed, it does not exist.
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Cost as a first-class concern
Cloud spend is not an afterthought. I embed cost awareness into every architecture decision. Reserved instances, rightsizing, tagging hygiene, Datadog log pipelines before the bill surprises you.
Tooling
Technology I work with daily
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AWS
EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM and more -
Kubernetes
EKS, self-managed, Helm -
Terraform
IaC, modules, state mgmt -
Datadog
Observability, cost audits -
Serverless
Lambda, Fargate, Cloud Functions -
Python and Go
Automation, tooling, APIs -
Linux
Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu -
Docker
Containers, Compose, ECR
Ready to work together?
Whether you need a cloud architecture review, a cost audit, or someone to embed with your team on an ongoing basis.