About
I am a full-stack developer with experience in building and maintaining AWS cloud applications. In particular I have spent most of my career building custom applications for niche applications. This also includes many migrations from an on-prem environment to the cloud.
Experience
AWS ProServe Partner
Red Alpha
August 2024 – Present
- Met with customer technical teams to gather information, requirements, document capabilities, and features which all get incorporated into the final recommendation
- Based on customer needs I tested cloud capabilities, like Kubernetes cloud integrations, to determine what can meet the customer needs
- Created cost estimated based on existing customer infrastructure to offer multiple points of view with direct vs optimized migrations
- Extended the cost estimates to include complete rewrites of systems focusing on serverless methodologies.
- Maintained file storage MVP example for the customer via serverless technologies like lambda with Python deployed via CDK
- Integrated all possible paths to migrate the customer to the cloud in a single deliverable to maximize customer success
- Composed cloud architecture options and evaluated which would be most effective for the customer in terms of migration complexity, speed, infrastructure cost, and capabilities
Lead Cloud Engineer
Red Alpha
November 2022 – Present
- Architected, implemented, migrated, verified, and audited multiple system migrations to AWS focused on resiliency, speed, and costs in that order.
- Lead the design of an implementation of a serverless migration leading to a total AWS bill of ~270 USD/mo for production scale 3 environments.
- Designed and implemented a Cloud solution for a cost focused internally managed OpenAi. Overall cost reached an average of $1/hr
- Routinely ran cost audits and improved system maintenance via automating migrations, integrating slack alerts, built system dashboards for non-technical leads, etc…
- Built multiple CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments, migrations, alerts, and cache busting for production systems.
- Built a fully integrated Slack notification system via AWS EventBridge to automated proactive notifications to the development team about potential issues, deployments, and state of the system.
- Designed an AWS authenticated shared terraform modules repo hosted in S3 to provide authenticated access to select groups without the need for any additional configuration.
- Lead multiple system compliance initiatives to meet STIG standards, connect with ACAS scans, meet ATO (authority to operate), and integrate with monitoring solutions such as AlertLogic.
Technical Lead
Asymmetrik LTD
Jan 2016 – March 2022
- Architected, executed, and validated contracts for multiple healthcare clients simultaneously as the company’s lead healthcare engineer to maintain company relationships
- Upgraded and maintained a highly configurable public facing Find-A-Doc application to drive patient engagement to book more effective appointments within an on-prem scheduling system.
- Migrated a healthcare client to a custom-built HIPAA compliant cloud based infrastructure to house PHI and PII analytics used by their marketing division with 0 downtime.
- Rapidly designed, built, audited, and deployed several COVID vaccine applications to schedule tests and/or vaccinations from a publicly reachable form into a 30 year old internal EHR system. Concept to HIPAA audited and deployed in one weekend.
- Helped maintain a large, 100s of TB of ~500B files, entirely event data highway in a fully redundant to provide indexing, virus scanning, replay capability, and forwarding of information.
- Lead multiple milestones to updating the data highway. For example: Updating the inventory index from a daily resync to a live update model.
Projects
A collection of abstracted OpenTofu modules to solve my 95% use case for code. Things like an SNS topic with encryption setup, a fargate deployment with secrets management built in, or a completely lambda based full stack application.
This repo provides an out of the box ready fullstack application with multiple deployment options available. The main goal is to provide a generic nodejs/react application that can be deployed to multiple scales. Serverless, Fargate, or EC2.
Certifications
AWS Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
AWS Certified Practitioner
Other Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
Comptia Security+ - Expires August 2026