Every company I've walked into had the same problem: legacy infrastructure held together with scripts and tribal knowledge, one person who understood the deploy process, and a team that had stopped complaining because nobody expected it to get better. I fix that. Bare Docker to GitOps. Manual deploys to self-service pipelines. Scattered Terraform to reusable modules. Then I hand it off and it runs without me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inherited a SaaS-only platform with no IaC, no reproducible deploys, and per-customer VPCs burning $120K/month in AWS. Migrated everything to Terraform-managed EKS with Helm and Flux. Rebuilt the core product from scratch when the port couldn't carry the weight. Cut AWS spend in half. Built the docs platform. Created the professional services function. Mentored SOC analysts into the SRE team that replaced me.
First platform developer in a newly created role. Four acquired companies, each with different architectures, toolchains, and target platforms. No unified build system. Built a cross-platform DSL abstracting compilation across 6 targets, automated 600+ pipelines, replaced the release engineering team as a bottleneck. When ransomware hit, engineering kept shipping because I'd already migrated everything to AWS.
Embedded API security at the edge. Sub-millisecond detection, campaign correlation, bot signatures, DLP scanning. No cloud round-trips. Built on Pingora.
AI-powered identity extraction and resume generation. Builds a deep model of your professional history, then assembles targeted materials per opportunity. AGPL, self-hostable.
Apparatus (network simulation), Chimera (vulnerable API server, ~1000 endpoints, 22 verticals), Crucible (attack validation with MITRE ATT&CK mapping).
Context orchestration for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. 90+ skills, intelligent recommendation engine, memory vault, Python CLI/TUI.
Available for contract and consulting engagements. Remote preferred. On-site in the Tampa Bay area.
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