S U M M A R Y ——————————————————————————– Freelance SRE & Backend Engineer with a foundation in full-stack development and a strong focus on backend programming, infrastructure as code, automation, and system reliability. I specialize in developing/supporting complex systems end-to-end — combining backend engineering with the operational rigor needed to ensure stability, observability, and long-term maintainability.

Recently, I’ve been deepening my work in the AI/LLM space — developing tools that apply backend and devops/SRE principles to modern AI workflows. My recent projects integrate structured LLM queries, real-time Slack interactions, and local classification models to enhance support workflows and surface meaningful insights. I approach AI development not as experimentation, but as systems work as it’s not just about building what works “for now” but will still be working down the road.

T E C H N O L O G Y ——————————————————————————–

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), GCP, Azure, Heroku
  • Programming: Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, C#, VB6, VBA
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, SaltStack
  • Web Servers: Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, Varnish
  • Databases: MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Vitess
  • Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, TDD
  • Other Tools: Datadog, Helm, Prometheus

E M P L O Y M E N T H I S T O R Y ——————————————————————————– 2022- Principal SRE | Devoted Health 2025 - Evaluating candidates and replacing existing Kubernetes Ingress (Ambassador) ultimately with Nginx in a 0 downtime cutover despite significant complexity such as mTLS, complicated deployments - Implement Terraform drift detection - Write AI powered app to alert slack users to duplicate issues - Simplify the Orinoco (company’s principal app) deployment process - Refactoring Terraform projects to minimize lock contention - Enhanced SFTP integrations and infrastructure tooling using Go. - Create and improve existing tooling in Golang and shell - Implementing and refining system monitoring via Datadog

2021- Infrastructure Engineer | Optoro 2022 - Managed and optimized bare-metal Kubernetes clusters - Designed a comprehensive network plan for transitioning to GKE - Proof of concepts for migrating bare metal DB’s to GCP

2021 Devops/Senior Engineer | Benefitbay - Responsible for architecture and build out of company’s cloud deployment infrastructure on AWS - Containerize applications with Docker for dev and eeploy - Implement initial monitoring and visibility - Developed infrastructure to ensure secure and scalable deployments

2020-2021 Solution Reliability Engineer | WildMoka - Complex migrations at systems/app intersection - Heavy work with Docker in the devops realm - Proof of concepts for future development

2019-2020 Senior Mysql Operations Engineer | ETSY - Mysql cluster stability, maintenance and evolution duties - Majority of work in Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Vitess implementation - Application level work in PHP

2017-2019 SRE/Devops Engineer | Twitter (contract) - SnappyTV - Work complex feature and maintenance tickets as sole SRE on project - Ruby/Ruby on Rails engineering, mostly in relation systems changes - 50% on-call for Rails app, 100% on-call SRE since 2017

2009-2017 Consultant/Freelance Software Engineer | StructuralArtistry - Various projects mostly in Ruby on Rails v2-5 - Full-stack development with weighted heavily toward back-end - Generally working in TDD style

2015 Senior Software Engineer | BenefitBay | Omaha, NE - Build out complex back-end module for computing employee benefits - Add best-practices to existing Rails 3.2 application - Build and deploy servers

2011-2012 Senior Software Engineer | Medivo | New York, NY - Development of two company platforms in Rails 3

2010 Software Engineer | FreshOut | Guadlajara, Mexico - Mostly back-end development on two client applications in Rails 3

2005-2009 Dir Software Development | National Credit Center | San Diego, CA - Hands-on development, management of business critical ASP.NET app

2005 Director of Human Resources SettlementOne, San Diego, CA

E D U C A T I O N ——————————————————————————– MS Exercise Science (not completed), University of Nebraska, Omaha Coursework included: Musculoskeletal System | Motor Control | Neuroscience Biomechanics | Advanced Statistics | Research Methods BA, Psychology & Linguistics, UCLA Certified Scrum Master Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), HRCI (expired) Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), HRCI (expired)

R E C U R R I N G T H E M E S I N M Y W O R K ——————————————————————————–

  • Officially and unofficially taking on devops and SRE related duties on teams
  • Support, repair and improve legacy/existing apps/systems
  • Research issues and technology in depth for root cause solutions
  • Understanding complex features and architecture, greenfield or existing
  • Learning new technology and systems in self-directed manner
  • API/endpoint creation, system integrations, heavy backend logic, batch proc
  • Test driven development (and remedial test coverage in many cases)
  • Data cleansing and analysis

H U M A N L A N G U A G E S ——————————————————————————– English (native) | Spanish (bilingual) | Portuguese (bad) | Thai (beginner)

O T H E R I N T E R E S T S ——————————————————————————– somatic education, songwriting, bass guitar, fiction writing, internal martial arts