Work History
GitLab, Remote
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
July 2026 - Present
Working on the Fleet Management team to own and improve the GCP infrastructure that powers GitLab’s public SaaS platform serving 50M+ users. Managing GKE and legacy VM workloads with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Chef automation.
M1 Finance, Chicago, IL
Senior Site Reliability Engineer II
April 2022 - July 2026
Worked on a small team to maintain 10+ AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, VPC networking and load balancers, standardized Helm chart templates, CircleCI deployment pipelines, and DataDog metrics-based monitoring. Produced reusable Terraform modules to support a team of over 50 developers in deploying AWS infrastructure (S3 buckets, RDS databases, Direct Connect peering, custom IAM roles) and integrations with other SaaS providers.
Maven Wave, Chicago, IL
Cloud Reliability Engineer
November 2021 - April 2022
Designed management and technical processes for a new business unit focused on delivering Google Cloud Platform managed service offerings rapidly at scale. Planned and led team projects and provided guidance to 8+ junior engineers to assist with delivering on department goals and customer orders.
Deft, Chicago, IL
Lead Platform Architect
March 2020 – November 2021
Designed internal, managed single-tenant, and shared multi-tenant services with a focus on automation, scale, and manageability. Trained and managed a diverse team of 7 platform engineers and mentored them on best practices and forward-thinking design principles such as automated testing, IaC, and CI/CD.
Systems Engineer II
April 2017 – March 2020
Serviced requests and monitored managed infrastructure services for 50+ customers, several with complex multi-site network topologies. Assessed customer needs and migrated existing workloads to managed networking and firewalls (Juniper, FortiGate, CheckPoint), load balancers (HAProxy), virtualization (VMware), and storage solutions.
Ferrara Candy Company, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Systems Engineer
July 2015 – March 2017
Worked on a small team of systems administrators to manage internal systems that support hundreds of business and manufacturing users across several sites in multiple countries. Managed dozens of Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers including mission-critical self-hosted SAP ERP systems.
Professional Convention Management Association, Chicago, IL
Network Administrator
September 2011 – July 2015
Was solely responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of dozens of virtual and physical servers and enduser workstations. Planned and deployed new infrastructure to suit business goals and deliver new functionality to members. Evaluated new vendors and helped develop short and long term plans and budgets for the department.