Curriculum Vitae

Summary

GCP Cloud Platform Engineer with 15+ years delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure, CI/CD platforms, and cloud-native solutions. Architected customer login applications on GCP handling 2M+ daily authentications across multi-region GKE clusters with 99.99% uptime. Reduced deployment cycles 80%, managed 500+ node estates, and built developer platforms accelerating delivery velocity 3-5x. GCP Professional Cloud Architect certified. Deep expertise in GCP services, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automated infrastructure at scale.

Experience

M&T Bank | Buffalo, NY

Technical Engineer IV - Senior Cloud Engineer | September 2024 – Present

• Cloud Infrastructure at Scale: Architected end-to-end cloud deployments using Terraform for 40+ migrations across 7 regions / datacenters, reducing provisioning from months to weeks. Designed standard implementation patterns derived from application architecture requirements.
• IaC Pipeline Convergence: Led DevOps transformation unifying fragmented workflows into standardized IaC pipelines using Terraform and Gitlab. Reduced manual intervention 85%, eliminated environment drift across 50+ subscription scopes.
• Automation & Configuration: Developed infrastructure automation using Python, BASH, and PowerShell for resource provisioning, compliance scanning, and cost optimization. Implemented Continuous Configuration Automation via Ansible for 1000+ nodes, cutting patching overhead 90%.
• Self-Service Platform: Designed processes and devops offerings for internal cloud provisioning platforms, enabling self-service infrastructure consumed by 60+ application teams.
• Security & Compliance: Implemented RBAC, Least Privilege, and Just-in-Time Access policies. Integrated cloud identity with on-premises Active Directory / EntraID and LDAP for hybrid identity management.
• CI/CD & SDLC: Enforced CIS IT SCM best practices using GitLab and Ansible Automation Platform across 40+ repositories. Established branch policies, merge request approvals, and automated pipeline gating that reduced deployment failures 60%.

Digital Yard | Austin, TX (Remote)

Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer (Technical Lead) | May 2024 – September 2024

• Hybrid Cloud Platform: Designed multi-cloud infrastructure platform serving 10+ client environments, achieving 99.95% uptime across distributed deployments.
• Accelerated Provisioning: Implemented IaC templates and automated provisioning that cut environment setup from 5 days to 4 hours - 96% reduction.
• Entrepreneur: Attended Chamber of Commerce networking events, Tuesday Coffee at Seneca One, Business Networking International Ken-ton, developed proprietary prediction models for SBDC analytics and startup evaluation.

Modernize.io (Consultant for Choice Hotels) | Remote

DevOps / Harness Specialist | January 2024 – May 2024

• Pipeline Consolidation: Led discovery across 40+ existing pipelines, consolidating into 8 standardized Harness CD templates - reducing pipeline maintenance overhead 80%.
• Deployment Engineering: Built next-gen pipelines serving 30+ application teams, achieving 99% deployment success rate with automated rollback capabilities.
• Proof of Concepts: Delivered ActiveMQ POC evaluating pipeline approaches, achieving unanimous stakeholder buy-in and expediting adoption timeline by 6 weeks.

Charles Schwab | Austin, TX

Manager of Software Development and Engineering | January 2020 – January 2024

• GCP Architecture at Scale: Architected customer login applications on GCP handling 2M+ daily authentications with peak throughput of 384k logins per minute during market open. Achieved 99.99% uptime through multi-region GKE deployment, auto-scaling policies, and Stackdriver monitoring.
• Architectural Standards: Developed 12 GCP architectural patterns and standards adopted across 5 engineering teams, reducing design review cycles 40%.
• Operational Excellence: Maintained 99.99% SLA through 24/7 on-call rotation. Leveraged BigQuery for operational analytics, capacity planning, and incident trend analysis across distributed GCP services.
• Strategic Leadership: Managed 8 direct reports coordinating across 4 cross-functional teams, delivering 3 major platform initiatives on schedule within budget constraints.

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | January 2020 – July 2022

• CI/CD Optimization: Re-engineered CI/CD infrastructure supporting 30+ applications, reducing pipeline failures 60% and improving deployment frequency from weekly to daily. Migrated 50+ pipelines from legacy Jenkins to GitLab CI, completing 3 months ahead of schedule with zero production incidents.
• GCP Monitoring & Reliability: Built monitoring dashboards and alerting pipelines using Stackdriver (Google Cloud Operations Suite), enabling proactive incident response and SLO tracking. Consolidated build infrastructure reducing CI runner costs 40% annually.

International Game Technologies PLC (THE LOTTERY) | Austin, Texas

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | 2015 – 2020

• Developer Productivity: Built Vagrant/Docker development environments mirroring full production stacks, serving 40+ developers and eliminating environment-related bugs that previously consumed 20% of dev cycles.
• Multi-State Lottery Releases: Orchestrated releases for Virginia, California, Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin lottery systems - including Transaction Engine, Gas Station Terminals, Mobile Apps, and Retailer Portal - handling transactions valued at $1B+ annually.
• High Availability Infrastructure: Architected 25-node mirrored clusters supporting 40 lottery projects with 4 9s availability, spanning 80+ application servers across multiple jurisdictions.
• Build Engineering: Standardized build processes across npm, Gradle, Maven, and Ant, reducing build failures 45% and cutting release cycles from 2 weeks to 3 days.
• Database Automation: Automated database delta deployments using Liquibase and custom Ant scripts, eliminating manual SQL execution errors across 30+ database instances.
• Configuration at Scale: Wrote 25+ Puppet modules deploying 16+ applications across 500+ nodes. Served as primary Puppet/Jenkins SME for 12-person team.
• Code Review Leadership: Reviewed and approved 50% of all team merge requests across 15 repositories, maintaining 99% first-pass acceptance rate.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS GCP Services: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Build, Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, VPC, Cloud Armor, Secret Manager, IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman, Istio Service Mesh Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI, Harness.io, ArgoCD/Rollouts, Jenkins, Artifactory, GitOps Languages & Scripting: Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, .NET, PHP, Node.js Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Liquibase Monitoring & Observability: Google Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus, Grafana Security & Identity: RBAC, IAM, JIT Access, Service Principals, LDAP, Active Directory Tools: ServiceNow, Jira, Git, GitLab, Azure DevOps

Certifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (certified 2022–2024)
• RHEL 5 (certified 2009)