Lead SRE at ZF Group

Owned platform reliability and security strategy, acting as a key DevSecOps leader driving best practices across engineering teams. Led and mentored a high-performing SRE team, setting technical direction, and ensuring delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infra. Architected and maintained a next-generation autonomous transportation platform on AWS, leveraging IaC (Terraform, Terragrunt, eksctl) and core services (EKS, RDS, MSK, OpenSearch, SQS, VPC, Route 53). Introduced observability standards by deploying Prometheus and Grafana, improving incident response. Designed and implemented serverless APIs in Python and Go, enabling automation and empowering teams to focus on higher-value work. Directed cross-company integration efforts, onboarding an acquired platform into the enterprise ecosystem. Partnered with stakeholders across product, security, and engineering to align technical solutions with business goals, balancing innovation with reliability.

SRE at Mobiquity

Led DevOps engineering efforts to build a mobile banking platform from the ground up, leveraging Kubernetes, Istio, CloudFormation, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and other cloud-native technologies. Designed and implemented microservices and automation to improve developer productivity and platform scalability, in Python and Go. Established cloud infrastructure best practices and CI/CD pipelines, enabling secure, reliable, and rapid delivery of banking features. Partnered with product and engineering to ensure regulatory compliance, performance, and security requirements.

Lead DevOps Engineer at IBM Financial Markets

Led a team of engineers in developing cloud automation solutions, acting as a technical focal point and promoting a culture of mentorship, collaboration, and DevOps best practices. Developed microservices in Python and Go to simplify maintenance, automate data manipulation, and streamline operational workflows. Maintained and enhanced large-scale Hadoop and Kafka clusters, including supporting APIs (Go/Python) for managing critical financial data. Implemented an orchestration framework leveraging Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, and HAProxy, improving scalability and fault tolerance. Designed and deployed four production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions, with full automation, monitoring, logging, CI/CD pipelines, and observability (ELK, Prometheus).

Backend Engineer at Spil Games

Built real-time data logging solutions using Hadoop, Spark, Flume, Hive, Sqoop, Nginx, and the Hadoop ecosystem. Implemented monitoring, PagerDuty alerting, and Puppet automation. Built deployment pipelines for Spark applications using Nexus, Jenkins, RunDeck, and Python. Developed Python microservices providing RESTful APIs; Python/Flask. Created cluster maintenance tools and data ingestion/manipulation utilities to improve operational efficiency.

System Engineer at SoundCloud

Rebuilt MySQL infrastructure including upgrades, refactoring cookbooks, and implementing HA for masters; performance tuning and hardening large tables. Implemented LVS/Keepalived load balancing; MySQL slave pools. Developed Python tooling for maintenance tasks, system monitoring, and API data ingestion. Maintained and expanded Hadoop ecosystem components.

Systems Engineer at Hyves

Managed approximately 4000 servers running web, mail, database, Hadoop, and queuing services. Implemented Puppet automation; expanded Hadoop ecosystem. Migrated queueing from MySQL to RabbitMQ and migrated 300 MySQL servers to PostgreSQL. Created internal tools for operations, monitoring, and maintenance.

IT Service Engineer at Ericsson

Provided second-level technical support for major customers; Linux/UNIX servers, Cisco routers and switches, firewalls. Monitored network and equipment using HP OpenView, Cisco Works, and Concord; implemented network changes and emergency repairs.

QA Engineer at IXIA Communications

Created and executed test suites to verify functionality, interoperability, performance, and scalability of Layer 4-7 and Layer 2-3 protocols. Built Layer 2-3 lab simulations for IXIA customers. Automated regression and conformance tests. Implemented simulation environments used for SIP and IPsec testing across Cisco/Linux environments.