Senior DevSecOps &
Platform Engineer

Building secure, production-grade cloud infrastructure and AI decision systems. Specialist in hardened Kubernetes (EKS) GovCloud, GitOps, and LLM-assisted orchestration.

About Me

I bring 6+ years of experience architecting the platforms that power modern data and AI systems. My focus lies at the intersection of security and scalability, owning the full platform lifecycle—from hardened Kubernetes clusters in AWS GovCloud under FedRAMP/NIST 800-53 to implementing advanced policy-as-code security gates.

Beyond traditional infrastructure, I build AI decision systems, developing agent orchestration, closed-loop evaluation harnesses, and multi-agent frameworks on a robust DevSecOps foundation.

Technical Expertise

Cloud & Governance

AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Redshift) AWS GovCloud FedRAMP (IL4/IL5) NIST 800-53 FIPS 140-2 Google Cloud (GKE, BigQuery, Pub/Sub) Azure (Synapse, Databricks)

Kubernetes & Platform

Amazon EKS Helm ArgoCD Flux (GitOps) Karpenter Istio Linkerd Calico OPA Gatekeeper Keycloak

IaC & CI/CD

Terraform CloudFormation Ansible GitLab CI Jenkins SAST SonarQube Zero-Trust Networking

AI & LLM Engineering

Multi-agent Orchestration Agent Guardrails RAG Systems LLM-judge Eval Claude Code Ollama Memory Systems

Data & Observability

Spark / PySpark Kafka Airflow / Dagster Prometheus Grafana (Tempo, Loki, Alloy) SQL / dbt

Languages & Core

Python Bash SQL TypeScript/JS TCP/IP SSL/TLS TDD

Professional Experience

Rackner Solutions Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Nov 2021 — Present
  • Built and owns entire Kubernetes backend and DevOps platform for media team in AWS GovCloud under FedRAMP, IL4/IL5, NIST 800-53.
  • Architected 4 production EKS clusters with FIPS 140-2 encryption, zero-trust networking (Istio/Linkerd), Calico, and OPA Gatekeeper.
  • Designed AI decision-advantage service for AFRL with fail-closed LLM validation (876 tests).
  • Built human-machine-teaming command console (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React/SolidJS) with doctrine-gated decisions (512 tests).
  • Automated EKS lifecycle with Terraform + Karpenter, reducing compute spend by ~30%.
  • Implemented GitOps delivery (ArgoCD/Flux) across 25 namespaces and 18 services.
  • Integrated security gates in CI/CD including SAST, secret detection, and SonarQube.
  • Established comprehensive observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, and Alloy.
Accenture Cloud Data Engineer and Architect
May 2020 — Nov 2021
  • Architected critical cloud migration to Azure Synapse and Databricks.
  • Optimized Hadoop performance by 10x, resulting in approximate annual savings of $100K.
  • Developed robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines and ETL workflows using Dataproc and Composer.
  • Created advanced Looker dashboards for business intelligence.
Cigna Big Data Engineer
Jun 2019 — May 2020
  • Led Hadoop application solutions and large-scale ETL optimization.
  • Applied TDD (Test Driven Development) for all production-grade solutions.
  • Implemented Docker images for automated reporting systems.
Levo International Data Engineer
Jan 2018 — Jun 2019
  • Architected full AWS data architecture for an international hydroponics business.
  • Developed ETL pipelines with Redshift/MySQL and generated actionable Tableau dashboards.
  • Built custom JavaScript web interfaces and optimized SQL views for data analytics.

Key Projects

Live Ops Board

Real-time operations picture of the continental US: live aircraft, earthquakes, and severe-weather alerts on one zero-backend map. Live demo · Source

JavaScript Leaflet Live public APIs GitHub Pages

eks-hardened-baseline

Terraform baseline for EKS clusters that must pass a FedRAMP-style security review out of the box: private-only API endpoint, customer-managed KMS envelope encryption, Bottlerocket nodes with IMDSv2, OPA Gatekeeper policy set, and Karpenter autoscaling. Source

Terraform Amazon EKS Bottlerocket OPA Gatekeeper Karpenter GovCloud

NK Elite Property

Production marketing site for a rental property management business — designed, built, and deployed end to end; served through Cloudflare with caching. Live site

HTML/CSS/JS Cloudflare Production deploy

FleetAI

Reusable AI-agent framework for service businesses: safety-gated agents (EA/Admin/Lead/CX/Marketing) with least-privilege tools, owner-approval gates, and earned-trust autonomy. First production client onboarded.

Python Claude Playwright PostgreSQL Telegram

PSA/DASH

Decision-Advantage Platform for AFRL battle management, hardened with 2,250+ automated tests. Private government work — details on request.

FastAPI Dagster Ollama React/SolidJS Docker

Jig

GitOps engine for repository governance at scale (~10.8k lines of Go): CLI and Web UI for managing massive repo fleets.

Go GitHub API YAML CLI

Stock-Engine

Inflection Hunter: finds stocks where a new revenue segment is accelerating while still cheap, using real SEC EDGAR/Finnhub data and LLMs for investment insights.

Python SEC EDGAR LLM PostgreSQL

Algo Trading Systems

Asynchronous trading bots across multiple financial markets with LLM-integrated sentiment analysis.

Python async httpx Alpaca Polymarket Kalshi

Education & Certifications

Education

🎓
MS Business Analytics & Project Management
UConn, June 2020
🎓
BS Management Information Systems
UConn, May 2019 (Minor: Psychology)

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Feb 2025
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Nov 2021
SnowPro Core
Aug 2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
June 2021

Get In Touch

I am open to freelance opportunities, consulting, or senior engineering roles. Let's build something secure and scalable together.