Cloud & DevOps Engineer working across the full infrastructure stack — AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines. I build systems that are reliable, automated, and production-ready.
Real deployments. Real problems solved. Every project here was built end-to-end from scratch.
Built for a real business. Running in production. A multi-tenant SaaS pricing tool designed, built, and operated end to end — ECS Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, Stripe, and Terraform-managed infrastructure. Paying subscribers. Zero downtime deploys in under 4 minutes.
Migrated a WordPress site from aging on-premises infrastructure to AWS — provisioning the full target environment with Terraform, exporting the legacy database with mysqldump, importing into Amazon RDS MySQL in a private subnet, and validating the migration at the database layer before application cutover.
Provisioned a production-grade EKS cluster with Terraform, deployed WordPress and MySQL as a two-tier application via Helm, managed credentials through AWS Secrets Manager with the External Secrets Operator, and verified horizontal autoscaling under real load with Siege.
A strategic analysis of five core challenges facing small cloud engineering teams — data source variability, proactive monitoring, resource constraints, documentation gaps, and CI/CD adoption. Grounded in AWS tooling with practical, business-aware solutions for each.
Provisioned a production-grade containerized application on AWS Fargate with full CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and GitOps — built from scratch in under 72 hours. Two parallel pipelines, 45 AWS resources, load tested at 250 concurrent users.
Provisioned a production-grade Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS with Terraform, deployed a personalized portfolio app via Helm with live cluster data from the Kubernetes Downward API, and automated deployment with Jenkins and a GitOps pipeline using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
Provisioned AWS infrastructure from scratch using Terraform — EC2, S3, IAM roles, and security groups — then configured a live Nginx web server using Ansible. Zero manual server interaction. Full infrastructure lifecycle from code to running web page and back.
Built through hands-on deployment, not just coursework.
I'm a Cloud & DevOps Engineer with a hands-on focus on AWS infrastructure, automation, and production-grade deployment patterns. My approach is straightforward: build real things, encounter real problems, and solve them — because that's where the actual learning happens.
My background is blue-collar and trade-based — culinary arts, long-haul trucking as an owner-operator, and commercial water well pump maintenance — before making a deliberate move into cloud engineering. The same mindset that keeps a pump system running at 2am is what I bring to infrastructure: methodical, reliable, and built to last.
My work spans the full infrastructure stack — from provisioning VPCs and EKS clusters with Terraform, to building parallel CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, to containerizing applications with Docker and deploying them with Helm on Kubernetes. My projects range from a load-tested ECS Fargate deployment to a full EKS cluster with GitOps automation via ArgoCD.
Beyond deployment, I think carefully about why infrastructure succeeds or fails — not just the technical side, but the process and people dimensions. Understanding both is what separates systems that hold up from ones that don't.