Experience

Kinective

Support hybrid AWS and on-prem infrastructure powering a fintech data intelligence platform used by banks and credit unions.
Work heavily within the security operations side of the DevOps team, identifying and remediating cloud and infrastructure security vulnerabilities.
Utilize Drata compliance tooling to investigate and resolve security findings across production systems.
Provision and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Linux-based tooling.
Contribute to CI/CD workflows using GitLab pipelines supporting reliable software deployments.
Develop Python automation pipelines integrating AWS APIs, Jira operational data, and Linux systems.
Built automated reporting systems generating operational analytics and infrastructure visibility reports.
Use Kiro AI IDE and custom MCP server integrations extensively to streamline scripting, debugging, and infrastructure automation workflows.
Monitor operational health and incident response workflows using Grafana, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.

Contributed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services supporting secure cloud platform operations.
Contributed to OCI Certificate-Based Resource Principal Service enabling secure certificate-based authentication and authorization for non-human cloud service access.
Designed and implemented RESTful API endpoints supporting scalable cloud service operations.
Utilized Java, Python, and Terraform for backend cloud service development and infrastructure management.
Developed observability tooling, service metrics, alarms, and dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana.
Participated in deployment rotations and on-call support for production cloud regions.
Authored internal documentation, onboarding resources, and operational runbooks using Confluence.
Participated in Agile development processes including sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog management, and Jira issue tracking.

Constructed a capacity monitoring program utilizing Python to collect ZFSSA analytics data.
Used Agile methodology to create and complete stories in Jira for each sprint.
Demonstrated results to executive leadership using PowerPoint that was implemented into current operations.
Initialized replication metrics using gauges and pushed those metrics to Prometheus.
Used Grafana to create a dashboard of all data collected.