Skills
Platforms
Kubernetes
OpenShift
K3s
Docker / Podman
AWS GovCloud
EC2
vSphere
RHEL
Rocky Linux
CentOS
Ubuntu
Arch Linux
Raspberry Pi OS
CI/CD & Automation
ArgoCD
Jenkins
Tekton
GitHub Actions
Gitea Actions
Helm
Kustomize
Ansible
Languages
Python
Bash
Java / J2EE
HTML / CSS
JavaScript
TypeScript
CMD / PowerShell
Tools
GitHub
GitLab
Atlassian Suite
Zabbix
Grafana
SonarQube
Fortify
Methodologies
GitFlow
SAFe Agile
DevSecOps
SRE
DISA STIGs
Experience
SRC
Site Reliability Engineer
04/2023 — Present
- Containerization of third-party software suite for a Software Factory (~5,000 users)
- Utilized AWS GovCloud services, kustomized Helm charts, Bash scripting, and Python
- Developed custom management suite to track essential operations
- Containerized and deployed Zabbix and Grafana observability stack with LDAP auth, AWS RDS backend, custom domain, and rewrote data-fetching scripts
- Hardened K8s nodes via DISA STIGs, custom AMI images, and AWS launch templates
- Solved outage issues at different parts of DoD infrastructure
- Moved applications from EC2 to OpenShift to EKS
- Production support — researched and resolved escalated issues that other tiers could not tackle
Insight Global
Site Reliability Engineer
10/2023 — 04/2024
Same role as SRC — Insight Global was a temp/recruiting subcontractor agency for six months
Forward Slope Inc
Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer
02/2023 — 09/2023
- CI/CD for MTC2, a multi-team application running on OpenShift across cloud and edge environments
- Deployed to Navy destroyers via OTA and manual configuration through Application Arsenal
- Managed multiple OpenShift clusters from AWS to on-ship custom hardware test beds
- Created pipelines with image creation, security scans, compilation and staging
- Created custom hardened images for distributed edge deployment
- Coordinated with PMO, test teams, developers, and teammates to ensure mission success
Northrop Grumman Corp
Principal Software Analyst & DevOps Engineer
10/2019 — 02/2023
- Lead role on DevOps teams for three programs
- Invented and simplified automated business processes in unclassified and classified systems, reducing "Toil" by an average of 15 hrs/week on top of primary job functions
- Rewrote and simplified collection of VisualBuild and batch scripts into Python
- Took 1 Release Branch from SVN & manual builds to Gitflow in 8 months, then led the team's DevOps adoption for two new programs (team sizes ~9 and ~22)
- Implemented Ansible for fleet lifecycle management — automated VM provisioning, destruction, installs, testing, and development environments
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Software Analyst & DevOps Engineer
05/2017 — 10/2019
- Fullstack web developer for internal business tool on a team of three
- Implemented configuration-based database connections
- Upgraded from non-versioned PHP on Apache to containerized TypeScript/React/Node.js using Git Flow
- Total revamp on database, redesigned and rewrote all UI, integrated visualizations for key data
FedEx
Programmer Analyst
08/2015 — 05/2017
- Maintenance and upgrades on an extremely visible J2EE business application that processed all scans couriers made
- Handled most UI tasks and server configurations
- Refactored test suite
- Sorting algorithms, helped team adopt Agile, enterprise Java design patterns, WebLogic queues
Education
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
May 2015
B.S. Business Information Systems & International Business
Minor in Entrepreneurship
On-campus: Web development for Office of the Provost
DoD Top Secret (CI) — August 2019
Certifications
- 2026 ISC2 CC
- 2026 CompTIA Security+ (renewed)
- 2026 CompTIA Linux+ (renewed)
- 2024 Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- 2022 CyberSecurity Tech Cohort
- 2020 CalTech MBSE Certificate
- 2017 NG Software Development Class
- 2015 SAFe Agile
- NG Mentoring Technical Professional Program
- Design of Computer Programs — Peter Norvig