Infrastructure That Runs Without Me
Platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, developer experience, and AI integration for teams that need the hard parts shipped.
I walk into legacy systems, absorb the context, rebuild the dangerous parts, and hand back platforms your engineers can operate without folklore.
How I work
The pattern is the same at every company. I start on the inside, helping the people around me ship. That gives me an accelerated tour of the organization: where the friction lives, what breaks on Fridays, which systems only one person understands. I work outward from there: customers, business model, competitive landscape. By the time I propose a solution, I've already lived the problem.
Absorb
Sit with your engineers. Watch them fight the tooling. Map the pain points, the tribal knowledge, the undocumented dependencies. Understand what's actually broken, not what the ticket says.
Rebuild
I don't ask teams to migrate on their own timeline. I do the work for them. Onboard their services to the golden path, all the way through deployment. Eliminate the bottleneck, don't relocate it.
Hand off
Everything is built to run without me from day one. Documentation, runbooks, monitoring. At ThreatX, I mentored the SOC team into SRE practitioners who took over the platform entirely.
The Path
Three chapters of the same pattern in different places. Each one taught me what sticks once nobody is watching anymore.
A10 Networks / ThreatX
Senior Platform Engineer. Inherited a SaaS platform with no IaC. Migrated everything to Terraform-managed EKS with GitOps. Cut AWS spend by ~$60K/mo.
Vispero
Senior Platform / Build Engineer. First platform developer in a newly created role across four acquired companies. Built a cross-platform build DSL, automated 600+ pipelines. When ransomware hit, engineering kept shipping because everything was already in AWS.
Earlier Work
Systems administration, IT infrastructure, networking. The foundation that makes everything else possible: understanding the full stack from bare metal to application layer.
For the deeper professional record, the resume expands the last eight years with background, design decisions, screenshots for nearly every project and accomplishment, and more detail on how I approach the work.
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Four shapes of engagement. Most clients walk in asking for one and end up needing pieces of the others.
Infrastructure Overhaul
Your CI takes 45 minutes. One person understands the deploy process. Your Terraform is copy-pasted across a dozen repos. I've inherited this exact situation at every company I've worked for and rebuilt it into infrastructure that runs without tribal knowledge. Bare Docker to EKS. Manual deploys to GitOps. Scattered scripts to reusable modules.
Developer Experience
Build the internal platform your engineers actually use. Golden path modules built by infrastructure, approved by security, monitored by SRE. Self-service pipelines. Shift-left documentation. The goal is your developers stop thinking about infrastructure entirely.
AI Integration
Embed AI into existing products and workflows. Not chatbots: context orchestration, behavioral analysis, LLM-augmented development pipelines, and automated test generation at production scale. The kind of integration that requires understanding your architecture, not just an API key.
New Product
Take an idea from architecture through production deploy. Backend, frontend, infrastructure, design system. Best for seed-stage companies with domain expertise who need the person that makes everything work. I've shipped complete platforms solo that teams of five quoted months for.