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About Me

I love working with technology in both my professional and personal life. I am passionate about the cloud and its ability to allow people to rapidly build and scale. I am passionate about cryptocurrencies and decentralized technologies that allow us to build a fair and open ecosystems that can change the world. I am passionate about the internet of things and the amount of things it can allow us to learn more about and/or automate.

This site is my playground, blog, and a place to keep some notes. Any opinions expressed here are my own.

My wife and I at my brothers wedding reception in Northern Ireland

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Professional Summary

I am a dedicated technical leader with an insatiable appetite for learning. Proficient in every aspect of the technology stack, I specialize in crafting scalable development workflows that seamlessly traverse from the initial commit to production deployment—a pursuit I’m deeply passionate about. My extensive experience spans the transformation towards microservices, encompassing both the procedural and cultural shifts inherent in both startup and enterprise landscapes. Furthermore, my keen focus extends to AI, cloud technologies, DevOps, and the dynamic realm of cryptocurrency.

Work History

Director, Cloud Engineering, Fidelity Investments

(April 2022 - Present)
  • Lead a team within Platform Engineering which enables other teams in the enterprise to migrate to the cloud by providing them with tooling and platforms for both Azure and AWS
  • Design, build, and support core aspects of our EKS based Kubernetes platform (currently hosts 1500+ applications)
  • Develop reusable infrastructure templates and patterns for AWS and Azure using terraform
  • Lead all Azure migration efforts in the business unit

Director, Cloud Technologist, Fidelity Investments

(April 2021 - April 2022)
  • Accelerate Azure adoption for teams across the business unit
  • Create reusable infrastructure templates for teams to easily provision resources configured with the standards required by the enterprise
  • Create reusable pipeline templates to ensure code is built, analyzed, tested, in deployed in a consistent and compliant manner
  • Provide architectural support for teams migrating to Azure
  • Present solutions and standards to teams across the enterprise
  • Analyze the business units Azure needs and advocate for them in conversations with the broader organization and with Microsoft
  • Provide reference implementations for building deploying solutions to Azure
  • Ensure solutions are built in a way that enables portability between Azure and AWS

Cloud Architect, Levels Beyond

(September 2020 - April 2021)
  • As a cloud architect I am responsible for ensuring that we build secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions in the cloud (primarily AWS but Azure and Google as well)
  • Responsible for understanding integrations/possiblities with focuses SaaS offerings (i.e Wasabi)
  • Write code for deployment/backend/frontend, for production as well as for proof of concepts.
  • Lead a core development team
  • Member of architecture team
  • Work with key partners and clients to ensure our solutions satisfy their requirements
  • Educate co-workers, clients, and partners on cloud best practices, design patterns (as well as our implementation), and possibilities
  • Working to build a learning focused organization that can move quickly by following a “cloud native” mindset

Lead Software Engineer, Levels Beyond

(January 2018 - September 2020)
  • Lead the DevOps team as well as a core development team and contributing code to both
  • Work to implement modern DevOps practices across the company
  • Help to educate and define the direction of the department
  • Member of the architecture team
  • In addition to my responsibilities within the engineering department I spend time with key clients for a variety of a tasks including training, support, solutioning, and gathering requirements to help define parts of the product roadmap
  • Spend time with key perspective clients to help define implementation plans and help with architecture/security reviews

Software Engineer, Levels Beyond

(March 2017 - December 2017)
  • Write front and backend code using java, javascript and typescript in an agile environment building a leading Media asset management platform
  • Contribute to getting us towards better DevOps practices

Software Engineer, PI Strategy and Innovcation, Fidelity Investments

(January 2017 - March 2017)
Provide architectural and engineering support to teams in the Distributed Technology space.

Software Engineer, PI Architecture, Fidelity Investments

(May 2015 - December 2016)
  • My day to day work can include the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of applications utilizing both the public and private clouds.
  • We utilize hybrid & native mobile technologies.
  • We practice scrum and use a DevOps mentality.
  • On most projects I am responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex automated release pipelines.
  • Provide support and guidance for Docker (Engine, Machine, Swarm, & Compose).

Associate Software Engineer, PI Architecture, Fidelity Investments

(June 2014 - May 2015)
  • Most of my day to day work consists of a variety of design, development, test, and build/deploy configuration tasks as a part of a few scrum teams.
  • Develop Cloud Services in Azure
  • Develop mobile apps using Cordova and Xamarin
  • Practices agile methodologies and promotes a DevOps mentality.
  • Part of our goal in architecture is to pass on the things that we learn working with these technologies internally, in order to achieve this goal I heavily document any useful findings in my work.

Associate Software Engineer, LEAP, Fidelity Investments

(January 2014 - June 2012)
Training program for Technologists entering Fidelity

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Texas Tech University

(October 2013 - January 2014)
Worked with a Professor and a Medical Doctor to develop a program which used AI techniques to process EEG test results and generate a diagnosis.

Certifications

Education