- Engineering Leadership: Led Platform Engineering at GoDaddy, VMware, and Pivotal, managing 13+ engineers. Delivered critical Authorization services and Eventing Runtimes, driving operational excellence via blameless post-mortems that improved lead time, reduced MTTR, and cut Sev-1 incidents by 40%.
- Technical Architecture: Designed Fever's automation services reducing support tickets by 40% via self-service flows, and architected VMware's observability platform boosting deployment frequency by 50% for 80+ teams.
- Cloud-Native Expertise: Knative maintainer and CKA/CKS certified. Built Pivotal's networking layer achieving 99.999% uptime and spearheaded organizational Kubernetes adoption for 100+ engineers.
- You can find his latest Resume at Releases.
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- Engineering Manager: GoDaddy, VMware, Pivotal
- Principal Software Engineer: Pivotal
- Senior Software Engineer: Fever, Purchasing Platform, Enova, Sears
- Software Engineer: Talpor, Insperity
- Leadership & Strategy: Engineering Management, Team Building, Product Strategy, Technical Direction, Mentorship, Operational Excellence
- Architecture & Cloud: Domain Driven Design, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, Event-Driven Arch., Distributed Systems, Authorization/OAuth
- Processes & Practices: Agile Methodologies, CI/CD Pipelines, DORA Metrics, Incident Management, Blameless Post-Mortems
- Technology Stack: Go (Golang), Python, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript
- 🛡️ Platform Security: Delivered core OAuth services and improved security posture at GoDaddy.
- 📈 High Scale Systems: Architected high-scale platforms at Fever (850k tx/day), GoDaddy, and VMware.
- 💓 Transformation: Reduced Sev-1 incidents by 40% and increased deployments by 50% at VMware.
- 💻 Open Source: Maintainer for Knative; delivered major releases and driven RFCs.
"Goals, metrics, and knowledge are the foundation to move forward"
- Learning AI Agentic flows using LangChain and LangGraph, exploring how to build intelligent, autonomous systems that can reason and take action.
- Contributing to open-source projects including Knative Eventing and Functions for Knative as a maintainer.
- Bringing reactive and event-driven programming patterns into the portfolio of paradigms people use to build their applications.
For a tour of this repository's structure and key files, see CODEBASE_OVERVIEW.md. It explains the purpose of each directory, how the résumé is built, and how automation is configured.
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