I am currently working as Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering at the Options Clearing Corporation, in a remote setting.
In this role I leadding the development, implementation and roll out of HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise as the IaC management solution, and serve as a subject-matter expert for this core service in our Platform.
I have extensive experiance in migrating applications and workloads while following GitOps & IaC.
- Lead on Terraform Enterprise automation for server deployment and end user Workspace automation design and implementation.
- Refactoring and optimizing existing Terraform modules to improve performance and reduce complexity.
- Redefining TFE Organization and Workspace design to follow the DRY pattern. Where deployments are written once and deployed to many environments.
- Automate everything that I can :)
I worked as a Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering at the Options Clearing Corporation, in a remote setting.
In this role I led the development, implementation and roll out of HashiCorp Vault Enterprise as a secrets-management solution, and continue to serve as a subject-matter expert for this core service in our Platform.
I am currently working on a project to automate AWS account management through Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform, while designing and implementing robust Terraform modules for seamless deployment and enhanced infrastructure efficiency.
- Lead and SME for HashiCorp Vault Enterprise. Successfully implemented an end-to-end cloud native and fully automated solution that is used by 90% of OCC product teams for secure secrets management.
- Senior engineer on the AWS Control Tower roll out via AFT & Terraform automation, cutting manual process intervention by 90% for AWS cloud account creation and management.
- Designed, architected, and deployed core pieces of AWS cloud infrastructure, prioritizing automation. Played a pivotal role in achieving Infrastructure as Code maturity through the utilization of Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins to have complete IaC lifecycle pipelines. All cloud infrastructure deployments have been automated 100% and cloud native application configurations automated by more than 70%.
- Successfully on boarded and provide operational support to around 70% of OCC development teams on custom build AWS cloud platform, encompassing technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Rancher, Kafka, and Harness.
I worked as a Senior Associate, Cloud Engineer at OCC. in Dallas, TX.
I contributed to the implementation and enhancement of AWS cloud infrastructure through the utilization of automation techniques to help guide OCC on their cloud migration journey
- Implementation and enhancement of greenfield AWS cloud infrastructure through the utilization of automation techniques, with year on year internal adoption rate of more than 40%.
- Successfully guided and supported OCC internal dev teams during the on boarding process, resulting in seamless adoption of the AWS platform.
- Utilized a diverse range of state-of-the-art technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Rancher, Kafka, and Harness for Cloud Native migration.
- Showcased expertise in achieving Infrastructure as Code maturity through the implementation of Terraform, Ansible, via custom Jenkins build pipelines.
- Offered support and troubleshooting for RHEL Linux deployments to AWS EC2.
Fullstack Software Engineer Intern
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InstaFuel
Jan 2020 - May 2020
I worked as a software developer intern at
InstaFuel. in Houston, TX.
InstaFuel is startup that recently got acquired by Shell, and there I partnered with CTO in tackling various development tasks in a fast-paced environment.
I also implemented a scalable Infrastructure as Code in AWS using DevOps methodology and tool sets (Terraform cloud, AWS, SaltStack, GitLab) along with rebuilding the Instafuel iOS auto logging app in React native mobile.
Intern- Platform Automation
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OCC
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 -- Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Intern at Options Clearing Corporation, part of Brandon Harroff’s platform automation team.
The main objective is to create a scalable and automated AWS cloud solution with continuous integration as Infrastructure as a Service for the existing on-premise IT infrastructure.
