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Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience across Azure, AWS, and GCP — Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Istio service mesh.
10 years across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Cut pipeline time by 83%, deployment lead time by 40%, and cloud spend by 20%. CKA & AZ-400 certified. Based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Me
Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer with around 10 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Currently owns the DevOps platform layer — CI/CD, IaC, and Kubernetes operations — for the SyncUP IoT platform at T-Mobile, running across multiple Azure regions on AKS and Conducktor/TKE. Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform/Bicep IaC, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Istio service mesh, and DevSecOps. Proven record cutting pipeline execution time by 83%, deployment lead time by 40%, and cloud spend by 20%. CKA certified. Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
Professional Experience
Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile- Leading end-to-end migration of production-adjacent microservices off two legacy shared Kubernetes clusters onto dedicated clusters, spanning primary staging and a 7-environment split QA namespace — with rollback paths preserved for every migrated environment.
- Root-caused a production-only intermittent 500 error on a customer-facing billing service across cluster pairs — traced to a Netty/Redis SSL channel-close conflict inside a Spring session filter.
- Identified Blocker-severity security exposure in a shared CI/CD monitoring stack (unauthenticated metrics API) and containers running as root due to a commented-out Kubernetes security policy.
- Audited a shared CI/CD pipeline used by 50+ microservices — found 15+ distinct defects including production rollback jobs wired to the wrong cluster and prod validation jobs that silently never executed.
- Built an internal tool that automates version reconciliation between lower environments and production by comparing live deployment images via git commit ancestry.
- Designed a configuration-drift dashboard comparing live Kubernetes state across production clusters against IaC source of truth.
- Audited 50-60 API gateway proxy configurations — found 22 environment-to-backend routing mappings cross-wired to wrong targets and deploy flags enabling delivery to dead environments.
- Reduced CI/CD maintenance overhead by consolidating a 93-branch sprawl in a shared pipeline repository down to a single mainline.
Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile- Built and shipped a multi-agent SRE assistant on Claude Code. The /sre-check skill runs parallel Haiku agents that collect kubectl output, Application Insights KQL, Service Bus DLQ counts, and Azure Monitor signals simultaneously, then hands everything to Sonnet for root-cause analysis. Post-deploy investigation time cut from ~30 minutes to under 2 minutes.
- Shipped a cloud-native SRE chatbot on Azure AI Foundry and kagent (KMCP) that picks up Teams messages and GitLab CI hooks and returns in-cluster Kubernetes diagnostics.
- Led the full migration of the SyncUP platform from Azure DevOps to GitLab CI/CD, consolidating all service repos under a single GitLab template repo.
- Cut overall pipeline execution from 12 minutes to under 2 minutes — an 83% reduction — by consolidating repeated jobs, parallelizing independent workloads, and skipping Bicep stages when no infrastructure changes are detected.
- Operate SyncUP services on both Azure SaaS AKS and Azure VMSS-hosted Conducktor simultaneously. Conducktor runs ~20,000 containers across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem.
- Leading active migration of SyncUP workloads from AKS to Conducktor, owning deploy contract, namespace provisioning, and service cut-over.
- Owned major-version upgrade paths for KEDA (v2.8 to v2.16), kube-prometheus-stack (v48 to v70.3), Strimzi Kafka Operator (v0.36 to v0.40), and OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Deployed SyncUP's first Istio-meshed service on Conducktor — wrote a custom EnvoyFilter with static ext_authz cluster, Lua filter for health paths, and PERMISSIVE to STRICT mTLS migration.
- Wired SonarQube, GitGuardian, and container CVE scanning into one MR-blocking DevSecOps gate. Cleared all high and critical CVEs on Linux workloads.
- Built HashiCorp Vault cluster on Azure VM Scale Sets for enterprise secrets management with dynamic secrets and automatic rotation.
- Moved platform from AppDynamics to Splunk Observability Cloud with OpenTelemetry OTLP instrumentation across every service.
- Cut cloud spend by ~20% through auto-scaling, reserved instances, and Azure Cost Management. Storage accounts reduced by 65%.
Senior Cloud/DevOps Infrastructure Engineer
CADFEM India- Built and deployed microservices on Azure AKS using Terraform, Helm, and Istio for mTLS, load balancing, and circuit breaking. Set up HPA autoscaling and liveness/readiness probes via Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Built CI/CD pipelines for Python, Java, .NET, and C# codebases using Docker multi-stage builds, Nexus artifact storage, SonarQube quality gates, Twistlock scanning, and Selenium tests.
- Managed cross-cloud IaC with Terraform across AWS (EKS, ECS, S3, RDS) and Azure. Wrote a Python compliance tool parsing Terraform plan output to check naming, tagging, and security policies.
- Deployed Splunk forwarders with Azure Event Hubs forwarding for centralized SIEM. Set up HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secret rotation and Azure APIM for API gateways.
- Executed AD, ADFS, and Azure AD Connect migrations with B2C/B2B integration. Enforced conditional access, MFA, and Azure Policy for compliance auditing.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Dynardo GmbH- Built serverless event-driven workloads on Azure using Terraform and ARM Templates covering Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Storage.
- Configured Azure Backup and Site Recovery with defined RPO/RTO targets and Traffic Manager for multi-region failover.
- Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with SAST and DAST security scanning. Ran Kubernetes clusters with blue-green and canary releases via Linkerd service mesh.
- Set up New Relic distributed tracing and Dynatrace APM dashboards. Built and documented REST APIs with Swagger and Postman.
DevOps Engineer
CADFEM India- Built and managed AWS infrastructure: EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS, VPC, ELB, Route 53, and CloudFront. IaC via CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Implemented zero-downtime blue-green and canary deployments via CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, and Elastic Beanstalk.
- Deployed and managed OpenShift containerized workloads backed by Amazon RDS, S3, and CloudWatch. Set up Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and ELK log aggregation.
- Integrated Ansible Tower with Jenkins across 50+ Linux servers for configuration management at scale.
Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms
Infrastructure as Code
Containers & Kubernetes
CI/CD & DevOps
Service Mesh & Security
Observability & SRE
Scripting & Languages
Key Projects & Case Studies
Selected technical initiatives delivering scalable cloud infrastructure and automation.
SyncUP CI/CD Platform Engineering
Led the full migration of the SyncUP IoT platform from Azure DevOps to GitLab CI/CD, consolidating all service repos under a single GitLab template repo. Cut pipeline execution from 12 minutes to under 2 minutes — an 83% reduction — by consolidating repeated jobs, parallelizing independent workloads, and skipping Bicep stages when no infrastructure changes are detected.
Multi-Cloud Kubernetes (Conducktor / TKE)
Operate SyncUP services on both Azure SaaS AKS and Azure VMSS-hosted Conducktor simultaneously. Conducktor runs ~20,000 containers across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem. Leading the active migration of SyncUP workloads from AKS to Conducktor, owning the deploy contract, namespace provisioning, and service cut-over for each service.
AI-Augmented SRE Tooling
Built and shipped a multi-agent SRE assistant on Claude Code. Parallel Haiku agents collect kubectl output, Application Insights KQL, Service Bus DLQ counts, and Azure Monitor signals simultaneously, then hand everything to Sonnet for root-cause analysis. Post-deploy investigation time cut from ~30 minutes to under 2 minutes. Shipped a cloud-native SRE chatbot on Azure AI Foundry and kagent (KMCP).
Certifications
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation · 2023
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
Microsoft · 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Microsoft · 2023
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
University of Central Missouri · Warrensburg, MO · 2023
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