Experience

Engineering reliable systems—and making them easier to operate.

My work has moved between backend cloud services, infrastructure, security operations, and the automation that connects them.

January 2026 — Present

Current

Kinective

Associate DevOps Engineer

Supporting hybrid AWS and on-prem infrastructure for a fintech data intelligence platform used by banks and credit unions.

Improve security posture through vulnerability investigation and remediation.
Automate infrastructure and operational workflows with Python, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Linux.
Build reporting and visibility tooling across AWS APIs, Jira data, Grafana, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.
Use AI-assisted development and MCP integrations to accelerate scripting, debugging, and infrastructure work.

September 2023 — September 2025

Oracle

Built and operated backend services within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with a focus on secure access and dependable production systems.

Developed REST APIs and cloud services using Java and Python.
Contributed to certificate-based authentication and authorization for non-human cloud access.
Created Terraform, metrics, dashboards, and alarms for production services.
Participated in regional deployments, on-call support, and operational documentation.

May 2022 — August 2022

Oracle

Created Python capacity-monitoring tooling that brought infrastructure analytics into day-to-day operations.

Published replication metrics to Prometheus and designed Grafana dashboards.
Presented the solution to leadership; the work was incorporated into operational processes.