• Taking on IT/software engineering consulting & career/life coaching as my schedule allows; winding down operations & seeking next full-time/long-term role
• Enhanced security of client’s ~$20 trillion in assets (~30k customers) with Java Spring Boot library for Okta Authentication & Authorization for REST APIs, JWT decoding/validation via Azure Entra & token signing with KeyVault
• Improved DevOps, security, & infra stability via custom Azure Cosmos DB Terraform module with user-assigned identity authentication

Saved client ~$35,000/month in Azure costs by cleaning up CosmosDB resources & locking down Terraform module to require approval for costly resources

• Led transition from OracleDB to Azure PostgreSQL DB, comparing it to Azure SQL Managed Instance & SQL
• Accelerated incident response by ~20% with custom Google Cloud alerts
• Enhanced management of 1 million vehicles via Python REST API with Snowflake queries deployed to AWS
• Improved security & efficiency of SDE by writing DevOps & SecOps Best Practices guides for 20+ engineers
• Accelerated remote Virtual Desktop login for ~60 engineers by ~93% with Python Selenium & macOS hotkey automation
• Reduced document upload times by 91% with Python browser automation to scrape LinkedIn profiles & upload to certification systems
• Consolidated client’s Terraform modules for Azure resources like subnets, VNETs, KeyVault, Cosmos DB, etc
• Upgraded AzureRM Terraform modules to AzureRM 4.0 & added multi-region support for Cosmos DB & KeyVault
• Created PowerShell scripts to automate tasks like email/calendar forwarding & VDI login apps via DevOps
• Led migration of on-prem PCF Infra to Azure, including Data Architecture & Dynatrace Dashboards
• Created OpenTelemetry traces, Prometheus queries, & GCP alerting policy for Gemini-based document-processing app
• Developed GCP SLO, SLI filters, Monitoring Alert Policy, & Alert Notification Channel to improve latency & availability for ~$110 billion in financial assets
• Sourced, trained & supervised international team of 5+ freelancers for BizOps & new work leads
• Added Multi-Region & AzureRM 4.0 support to Azure Terraform modules for 100+ DevOps engineers, enhancing infra resiliency & UX for clients
• Led audit of ~$100k/month Azure infra to ensure compliance & clean up unused resources
• ContentMachine: Gained ~100k TikTok views with cloud-deployed pipeline for AI-generated short-form videos with Python, AWS, OpenAI’s API, & NLP

• Saving Duke ~$1M in Labor Capacity by end of 2024 by leading backend & DevOps for Orbit, an iPad app replacing manual data acquisition and logging at ~100 Duke power plants with several thousand users. Used Python, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, VPC...), Terraform, Bash, Concourse, Node.js, & more
• Enabled user file attachments by integrating Orbit API with AWS S3 with custom Terraform module
• Enforced 90% code coverage for Python unit tests, ensuring code reliability
• Coordinated, managed, and performed production releases
• Accelerated prod incident tracking with DynaTrace/AWS X-Ray dashboards, to ease process of issue tracking
• Eased onboarding and reduced release times by 30% by refactoring API endpoint Terraform code
• Sped up AWS Lambda functions by ~21% using shared runtime environment & caching
• Architected, pitched, & created custom “documentation generation” component to streamline communication of new API features. Uses EventBridge, CloudTrail & more
• Shrunk Concourse codebase by ~35% by migrating from Terraform OSS to Enterprise
• Reduced infra PR merge time by 8-24h by migrating AWS infra from shared to dedicated environment
• Enhanced code quality & security by integrating SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, & CheckMarx into CI/CD pipeline
• Boosted reliability of Orbit API with Postman integration/load tests, written with auto-generating web-scraper
• Reduced Integration Test PR merge time, & codebase size by ~94% with Chai.js/JavaScript Postman helper functions
• Led collaborative efforts with 5+ Duke “Communities of Practice”, along with 6+ project teams, enabling scalable & reusable features and cross-project collaboration
• Enhanced custom SwaggerDoc security w/custom Node.js authorizer, ensuring incoming traffic was from Duke network

• 2019-2020: Saved Capital One ~$10k in fines per customer annually by creating the data fulfillment pipeline for CCPA compliance for its ~100 million customers, enhancing customer privacy. Used Python, AWS, Docker, Java Spring Boot, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka & more

• Wrote component for processing & uploading zip files of customer assets (CCPA records) to S3 & alerting web app team via Apache Kafka so they can email customers

• Created Kafka consumer component to process privacy requests ready for processing by our pipeline

• Helped create Python component “Query Builder” to dynamically generate PostgreSQL & Snowflake queries

• Ensured seamless CI/CD by increasing unit test coverage to 90%+

• Enabled developers to quickly work on our Data Fulfillment Pipeline by thoroughly documenting all parts

• 2020-21: Facilitated project shifts for improved value-add & return offers for 2 interns while leading professional development for 5 engineers

• Screened 20+ software engineer applicants & got 1 peer hired at the firm by engaging in technical interviews & recruiting

• 2021: Supported Capital One pilot-program data warehouse SaaS (Slingshot) - Python, Java Spring Boot, AWS ECS, Docker, AWS DynamoDB, protobuf/gRPC, React, Snowflake

• 2017: Developed reusable OAuth2 AngularJS library for internal commercial bank applications

• 2018: Created cross-platform mobile scheduling app for the 2018 Android Summit developer conference & held a keynote technical overview of the app. Front-end in Flutter/Dart, back-end Firebase. Published to Apple App Store and Google Play Store, rolled out to 100+ users

• 2015: Saved firm ~$125k annually by reducing errors in auto-generated technical documentation by ~26% in 1.5 months. Did so by creating stand-alone Java desktop app for sanitizing malformed output from legacy proprietary software.
• 2016: Saved firm ~$80k annually by lowering transaction time to share confidential documents by ~40min, by architecting & deploying custom git version control system
• Held Secret security clearance in 2016.