Work

Roughly a decade in infrastructure and platform engineering, most of it on cleared programs across defense, the intelligence community, and aerospace.

  1. Recro Corporation

    Nov 2023 – Present

    Principal Solutions Architect

    • ▸ Serve as technical lead for a Professional Services team, guiding delivery and mentoring engineers.
    • ▸ Led architecture and deployment of an air-gapped Nutanix Kubernetes Platform fleet for NASA SSMO, with Flux-managed cluster provisioning and application delivery. NASA's team used the reusable deployment pattern to build a second workload cluster independently.
    • ▸ Implemented SOPS-encrypted GitOps workflows, highly available OpenBao, and Keycloak backed by CloudNativePG for NASA SSMO. Authored operator runbooks and knowledge-transfer guides covering cluster lifecycle, secrets custody, and fleet observability.
    • ▸ Architected and drove Confluent Platform deployments and operations for a major Army cyber program across six sites, focused on high-availability and secure Kafka infrastructure that enables real-time SIEM/SOAR.
    • ▸ Designed a shared-services intelligence-community platform across IL4 and IL6+ in AWS GovCloud, serving four development teams.
    • ▸ Architected digital-twin Kubernetes environments to validate software deployments against STIG requirements for customer proofs of concept.
    • ▸ Replaced manual EC2 image configuration and scanning with CI/CD pipelines that provide continuous compliance for a USAF cyber defense unit.
    • ▸ Led installation of Kubernetes environments for the same USAF cyber defense unit using SpectroCloud Palette VerteX.

  2. D2iQ

    May 2022 – Nov 2023

    Solutions Architect

    • ▸ Designed and implemented secure multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters (Azure + vSphere) addressing complex air-gapped networking and security requirements.
    • ▸ Partnered with a strategic defense customer to migrate ten-plus legacy applications to containerized microservices.
    • ▸ Authored and delivered 15+ CKA and CKAD certification prep courses (held both certifications 2022–2025), plus CNCF landscape classes.

  3. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

    Nov 2017 – May 2022

    Software Engineer

    • ▸ HALLMARK. Developed DevOps and platform engineering capabilities for a DARPA space-situational-awareness program, including an event-driven architecture ingesting thousands of satellite messages per second.
    • ▸ GC3. Built an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline covering linting, tests, source-code scanning, container builds, SAST, SBOM, and OpenShift deployment. Developed Python SDKs for RabbitMQ, S3, and a NASA space-communications API.
    • ▸ Rideshare. First Kubernetes deployment on in-orbit edge hardware at Ball. Built an MQTT-based job scheduling service and simulated limited-bandwidth container updates.
    • ▸ CASINO. Implemented OPIR sensor data processing pipelines using Azure Event Hubs and Redis; automated infrastructure with Terraform.

  4. Gleason Metrology Systems

    Sep 2015 – Nov 2017

    Software Support Engineer

    • ▸ Provided software support to customers for precision gear inspection machines.