Talent Profile
Specializes in event-driven automation, security hardening, and compliance enforcement. Designs and deploys scalable, resilient systems optimized for reliability, performance, and efficiency. Experienced in incident management, observability, and infrastructure as code, with a strong focus on minimizing operational toil through automation and strategic design.
🔧 Skills & Technologies#
Docker · AWS · Ansible · macOS/Linux/Unix/Chrome @ scale · Azure · Terraform · Windows Server · CI/CD · Python ·
Git · API integrations · Jira · DevOps · Grafana · Splunk · Puppet · Scalr · MDM · PowerShell
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) · AI · OSQuery · Serverless Framework · Bash/Zsh · AI · MCP
🏆 Certifications & Achievements#
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Jamf 200/300
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- R/GA Cube Award Winner
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (In Progress)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- CompTIA Network+
- Made 2,861 GitHub contributions over the last year across various projects.
💼 Professional Experience#
Peloton Interactive, New York City, NY#
- Manager, Client Platform Engineering (June 2024 - Present)
- Senior Client Platform Engineer (Team Lead) (Dec 2023 - June 2024)
- Client Platform Engineer (Sept 2023 - Dec 2023)
Manager leading the Client Platform Engineering team, combining hands-on engineering expertise with strategic leadership to scale and maintain secure, reliable, and highly automated platform systems. Drive sprint planning, project execution, and cross-functional collaboration while actively contributing to system design, automation, and architectural decisions to improve efficiency and streamline operations.
Key Responsibilities:#
- Architect and unify cross-platform systems using proprietary APIs and data integrations.
- Manage large-scale endpoint and fleet operations via MDM and configuration management.
- Build aggregated event pipelines and shared metrics for SIEM and security observability.
- Design and implement scalable automation to drive reliability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
- Lead production incident response and participate in on-call rotations.
- Integrate AI-driven automation and analytics to enhance operations, security, and decision-making.
- Lead Jira sprint planning, execution tracking, and delivery for operational engineering initiatives.
- Oversee Terraform + Scalr pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, cost visibility, and governance.
- Partner with SOC to validate findings and execute security remediation.
R/GA (Interpublic Group of Companies), New York City, NY#
- Systems Administrator (January 2018 - August 2023)
Lead global IT team managing corporate endpoints across 19 sites.
Engineered integrations with SaaS products while ensuring security and compliance.
Key Responsibilities:#
- Engineered production-grade automation using Bash, PowerShell, and Python.
- Operated and scaled Linux microservices and node fleets using Puppet.
- Drove infrastructure reliability to consistently meet and exceed SLOs.
- Led cloud and on-prem infrastructure automation, scaling, and large-scale migrations.
- Implemented enterprise security controls aligned with CIS benchmarks and SOX requirements.
- Directed endpoint security strategy and enforcement via MDM.
- Authored and maintained high-value technical documentation and internal knowledge systems.
- Owned virtualized infrastructure availability and led incident response.
- Architected and maintained enterprise identity and trust systems (PKI, Kerberos, SSO, LDAP, 802.1X).
🎓 Education#
Bachelor’s Degree – Visual Communications, Time-Based Media
University of Central England (UCE), Birmingham, England, UK (Sept 2002 - June 2005)
Focused on web-based tool design and online motion graphics.
🔬 Recent Select Projects#
Certain repositories are limited to internal project work and can only be accessed within the current organization.
- Engineered offline-capable NDJSON log transport pipeline for SAP Privileges (macOS) using Fluent Bit,
newsyslog, and JWT-authenticated API forwarding. - Log forwarding of osquery results to Grafana Loki via AWS Kinesis Data Stream.
- Automated secure browser proxy configuration at scale using AWS S3 and CloudFront
- Restrict web app access using AWS WAF with CIDR ACL while keeping required API endpoints public.
- Provisioned an auto-scaling application on AWS ECS with Fargate launch type and RDS, using Terraform.
- Puppet Server deployed on EC2 with ingress controlled security group and r10K control repo.
- Engineered an AWS Managed Grafana instance using Terraform, integrated with Okta for federated authentication.
- Presented series data with Grafana & MySQL reducing software licensing costs and improving compliance.
- Developed Python CLI to automate inventory data manipulation after a vendor change.
- Built real-time security dashboards with Splunk, integrating Jamf, Azure, Okta & OSQuery.
- Containerized MDM server development environments using Docker.
- Implemented secure storage replication for drive encryption keys with GnuPG & GitHub Actions.
- Integrated software repo into a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub pull request approvals.
- Created AWS Lambda function to query Azure AD group membership efficiently.
- Automation pipelines (CI/Lambda) used by external vendors and ITAM for audited requests and elevated access to management systems and tooling.
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