About Me
I'm a software developer with over 10 years of experience building and maintaining web applications. I specialize in DevOps (aka SRE), developing scalable and immutable cloud infrastructure as well as rock-solid CI/CD pipelines.
I advocate for continuous delivery with fully automated CI/CD pipelines that allow developers to deploy often with fully immutable infrastructure.
As a technical mentor and engineering collaborator, I enjoy guiding teams, working with product stakeholders, and driving initiatives that deliver business impact. I thrive on learning and exploring new technologies and programming languages.
Work Experience
🚶 mySidewalk
DevOps Engineer
[June 2021 - October 2025]
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes (Github Actions, Jenkins).
- Managed cloud infrastructure in GCP using Terraform/OpenTofu.
- Maintained a Data Warehouse platform and implemented processes that converted the warehouse to various database formats.
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Monitored system performance and resolved issues to ensure high availability.
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
🌎 Informa
DevOps Engineer
[October 2017 - June 2021]
- Develop and maintain hundreds of public facing sites written in a variety of languages
- AWS immutable environments designed with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and Packer
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for new and existing applications via Jenkins jobs
📚 Westmark Enterprises
Web Developer
[January 2017 - October 2017]
- Develop and enhance CMS Learning Platform WebCOM (grtep.com)
- Integrated 3D molecule viewer JSmol for chemistry authors/students
- Developed OAuth validation module written in Coldfusion
- Migrated WebCOM to TLS with scripts to find/update hardcoded links in database
- Train new developers on Git process/workflow
- Aided development of WebCOM into the Drupal CMS environment
🚗 PBS Systems
Software Developer / SysAdmin
[October 2015 - January 2017]
- Maintain and develop a legacy Dealer Management System for Auto/Truck/Agriculture dealerships
- Implemented a notification system “log2aws” a daily BASH script that processes logs on customer servers and sends out sms/emails if a process failure was found
- Also was the System and Network Administrator
🎨 Design Mill Inc
Software Developer Intern
[May 2014 - May 2015]
- Develop content for Android/iOS applications
- Design and implemented an Augmented Reality Sandbox Program
Education
📖 Clark University, Dubuque Iowa
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Information Systems
[May 2015]