Platform Engineering & Leadership

I lead platform engineering — the teams, the architecture, and the hard calls.

Two decades across financial services, consulting, and technology — building cloud, database, and infrastructure functions from the ground up, with teams spanning US and offshore.

I take on the decisions that carry the most risk, and I'm accountable for how they land — lower cost, higher uptime, platforms modernized without downtime. I have the technical depth to make the hard calls myself, and I'd rather prove an approach once and leave a standard behind than solve the same problem twice.

Selected work

• Migration programs, from idea to methodology. Self-initiated a Graviton (ARM64) program on AWS — business case through leadership approval to a benchmark-validated +39.5% cost/performance gain, now a reusable methodology across platforms. The full story →
• Enterprise consolidation. Led consolidation of 250+ workloads from a dozen legacy apps across three data centers in a single year — roughly $1M saved.
• Governance & security. Authored platform standards, intake, and readiness gates; drove SOC 2, GDPR, and SOX practices with recurring audits.
• Operations built from zero. On-call, RCA, and monitoring standards for platforms that had none — run at 99.95%+ uptime across large fleets.

Credentials

AWS: Solutions Architect – Professional
Azure: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) · Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Program: PMP
AI: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Certified Professional

Focus areas

Platforms: AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud · Terraform & IaC · Kubernetes · CI/CD
Data: modern & legacy databases — Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server · legacy-to-cloud modernization
Operations: SRE & incident management · high availability & disaster recovery · FinOps & cost optimization
Emerging: generative AI & MCP

Weighing a migration, a platform build, or an architecture call you can't walk back? That's where I do my best work. Let's talk →