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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 technical leader with a strong focus on cloud architecture and platform engineering. My expertise spans the entire tech stack, enabling effective contributions at every project level.

Core principles that guide my work include:

  • Open communication
  • Fostering continuous learning
  • Creating a safe work environment

Driven by a passion for building robust, scalable solutions, I’m deeply committed to making a meaningful impact through my work. Simply put, I love what I do.

Work History

Director of Cloud Engineering, Adcellerant

(March 2024 - Present)
  • Responsible for all cloud infrastructure (GCP)
  • Define cloud strategy and architectural patterns
  • Design and build out a GitOps driven infrastructure
  • Design and build out a GitOps driven GKE platform
  • Ensure infrastructure is compliant, scalable, secure, and reliable
  • Provide a seemless developer experience
  • Play a major role in driving engineering direction, processes, and strategy

Director, Cloud Engineering, Fidelity Investments

(April 2022 - February 2024)
  • 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