Work History

A FinTech Company, Chicago, IL

Senior Site Reliabilty Engineer II

Apr 2022 - Present

Worked on a small team to maintain AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, Helm chart templates, deployment pipelines, and monitoring and metrics. Produced Terraform modules for developer use in deploying AWS infrastructure such as S3 buckets, RDS databases, IAM configurations, and VPC configuration.

Maven Wave, Chicago, IL

Cloud Reliability Engineer

Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

Designed management and technical processes for a new business unit focused on delivering managed service offerings rapidly at scale. Led team projects and provide guidance to junior staff to assist with delivering on department goals.

Deft, Chicago, IL

Lead Platform Architect

March 2020 – Nov 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 to support best practices and forward-thinking design principles such as automated tests, IaC, and CI/CD.

Systems Engineer II

April 2017 – March 2020

Responded to service requests and monitored system performance for a variety of managed infrastructure services for dozens of diverse customers. Deployed and documented networking, firewalls, load balancers, virtualization, and storage for new customer orders.

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 RedHat 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 client workstations. Planned and deployed infrastructure to suit business goals. Evaluated new vendors and worked with management to develop short term and long term plans for the department.