Experience
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Benchmark Analytics — Columbus, OH
- Architect and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS), managing deployments via Helm charts and reducing deployment times.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision highly available resources, including AWS RDS instances, Redis Clusters, and VPC networking.
- Automate Linux system administration and operational tasks by writing custom Go and Bash scripts, replacing manual workflows with reliable code.
- Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines on GitLab and GitHub, integrating Python Lambda functions for serverless automation.
- Hardened security posture by implementing container image scanning within Amazon ECR and automating remediation workflows.
Cloud Software Engineer
Cloudreach (an Atos Company) — Remote
- Led migration of complex data pipelines from AWS EMR to AWS Glue, leveraging serverless architecture to reduce operational overhead and cloud costs.
- Standardized CI/CD pipelines across multiple client applications, enabling consistent deployment strategies and faster iteration cycles.
- Extended internal right-sizing tools to support Azure VMs, utilizing Python to analyze usage metrics and recommend cost-saving adjustments.
- Engineered a Virtual Reality environment using Three.js and AWS Sumerian, building a serverless backend with Lambda, S3, and Amazon Lex.
Software Engineer
Capital One — Richmond, VA
- Developed a cloud cost analysis platform using Angular and a Python Flask backend, enabling internal teams to optimize cloud spend across the enterprise.
- Built and maintained data pipelines using Hadoop EMR to process large-scale financial datasets.
- Enhanced the "Eno" virtual assistant by developing new features and security protocols using a Node.js backend.
- Completed an intensive six-month software engineering development program focused on full-stack development and cloud best practices.
Software Engineering Intern
Infoverity — Columbus, OH
- Automated the deployment of Informatica MDM on AWS EC2 using CloudFormation templates.
Software Engineering Intern
Command Alkon — Columbus, OH
- Developed a foundation for cloud integration of the company's core product.
- Created key performance indicator dashboards in Tableau for customer-facing reporting.
- Built a Slack bot enabling customers to interact with product data programmatically.
Skills
Infrastructure as Code
Container Orchestration
AWS
Languages
CI/CD & DevOps
Observability
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Expires Mar 16, 2029
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Expires Mar 16, 2029
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Expires Sep 27, 2028
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Expires Oct 2, 2027
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Expires Oct 2, 2027
LFC102: Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation
The Linux Foundation
Issued Jun 11, 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Issued Mar 20, 2022
Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
Expired Sep 28, 2024
Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud
Expired Feb 9, 2024
Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Google Cloud
Expired Feb 2, 2024
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)
HashiCorp
Expired Nov 24, 2023
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
Expired Nov 6, 2023
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google Cloud
Expired Oct 28, 2023
Professional Cloud Developer
Google Cloud
Expired Oct 21, 2023
Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Expired Oct 15, 2023
Open Source
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kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Enhanced management of external DNS records for Kubernetes services, directly improving service discovery capabilities within the ecosystem.
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opentofu/opentofu
Active contributor to the open-source Terraform fork, helping ensure the longevity and stability of open IaC standards for the community.
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aquasecurity/trivy
Contributor to Trivy, the industry-standard open-source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanner for containers, filesystems, and infrastructure.
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openbao/openbao
Contributor to OpenBao, the open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault, providing community-driven secrets management and identity-based security.
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hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Contributor to the official AWS provider for Terraform, one of the most widely used infrastructure-as-code providers in the ecosystem.
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The Ohio State University
B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Focus: Operations Research