I am a Principal Software Engineer with 17+ years of experience in Platfrom, Backend, and Site Reliability Engineering. I thrive on building scalable platforms and optimizing cloud environments to drive innovation and efficiency.
At Focused Labs, I lead our DevOps practice, where we partner with clients to enhance their system reliability and performance. My tenure at Smartsheet and Cloudability allowed me to refine my skills in cloud cost management and strategic consulting, empowering clients to unlock their full potential.
I’ve held leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Services at Test Double, where I guided teams to adopt best practices in DevOps. I’m passionate about mentoring the next generation of engineers and fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity.
- Performant, scalable solutions
- Meaningful observability
- Security Engineering
- Automating tedious, unnecessary, and error prone tasks.
- Developing data driven decisions on cloud spend and rightsizing of cloud resources
- Deep dives into Kubernetes and all relevant esoterica
- Stress, soak, smoke, performance, and chaos testing
- Highly available distributed systems.
- IoT
I am currently a Principal Engineer at FocusedLabs where I lead DevOps, Infrastructure and Site Reliability Consulting, as well as our strategic partnership with Honeycomb
Other places I've worked include:
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Smartsheet working on platform and infrastructure for their Digital Asset Management solution, Brandfolder.
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testdouble as their Lead DevOps consultant / Director of Infrastructure Services.
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cloudability, building FinOps tools for cloud cost management.
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ello.co, where I was the first full time engineer they hired. Fun times.