Director, DevOps Engineer at Perella Weinberg Partners

Architected Nexus, an end-to-end identity lifecycle platform automating employee onboarding/offboarding, eliminating a proposed $500K external project and delivering complete solution in 6 months with a 24-hour SLA. Built secure Azure infrastructure integrating Workday, Active Directory, and Azure AD using Functions, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, and service-based authentication with zero internet exposure. Engineered 'TeamsGPT', a self-hosted Azure AI chatbot achieving ~80% user adoption with hundreds of daily conversations, maintaining data within security perimeter using Cosmos DB and Redis. Partnered with SOX auditors and Big 4 firms to ensure automation met regulatory compliance, maintaining detailed audit trails and comprehensive test suites as CI/CD deployment gates.

Senior Engineer, DevOps at Ares Management

Spearheaded 'Ares-Middleware', a Python-based automation platform hosting thousands of integrations across HR, Financial Systems, and Investment teams, leading a team of 4 engineers. Migrated platform from on-premises to Azure Kubernetes Service, achieving 90% reduction in downtime, 2x deployment speed, and enhanced monitoring using Helm charts and container orchestration. Built a data lake with Azure Data Factory and Event Hubs ingesting gigabytes of daily data from corporate applications, enabling Power BI dashboards for executive insights. Adopted Terraform and Bicep for IaC, optimizing CI/CD and establishing GitOps workflows across environments.