Caprock Canyon, Quitaque, TX
Engineering leader with 25+ years building platforms, scaling teams, and migrating things.
- Platforms that scaled through >6,000% revenue growth and billions in transactions
- Telemetry systems across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters on multiple continents
- Migration initiatives that moved hundreds of services across cloud environments with zero downtime
- Custom Kubernetes controllers for fleet management at Amazon scale
RBCx · Led platform through acquisitions; 100s of services migrated, >99.999% uptime
OJO Labs · Scaled platform through 6,700% revenue growth and $3B in transactions
Amazon · AWS Labs, EKS beta tester; automated 150+ K8s clusters over three continents
uStudio · Transformed engineering org into full-stack devops culture
Bazaarvoice · 50K req/sec, 30B monthly pageviews; datacenter-to-cloud migration
Rackspace · Global network ops across 10 data centers, 1M+ metrics/sec
Building AI tooling and diving deep on LLM evaluation frameworks. Working through Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization.
Current Projects:
- retriever — RAG-powered Q&A with source citations and answer verification
- drover — AI document classification using LLMs
- team-of-rivals — Strategic decisions via Claude AI Skills
- agentspaces — Agentic development environment with isolated worktrees, dependency management, and CI integration (private)
Other Open Source
- AWS Service Operator — Kubernetes CRDs for AWS
- AWS VPN Controller — K8s controller for VPN management
- AWS EKS Cluster Controller — Multi-cluster EKS management
AI/ML: RAG · Agentic Workflows · Prompt Engineering · Deep Learning
Languages: Python · Go · Bash
Platforms: Kubernetes · Docker · AWS
Domains: Platform Engineering · Developer Experience · Reliability