I design, build and maintain technical infrastructure based on Linux (and other Unix derivatives) and free/open-source software.
I like to write clean, reusable and human-readable code in addition to leveraging existing tools in order to save time and money.
I take a firmly pragmatic approach to architecture, design and tooling decisions with the goals of reducing technical debt and overall system complexity whenever possible.
My ideal position is one in which I can help alleviate social, health, environmental and/or political issues.
Experience
Operating Systems Administrator/Enterprise Cloud Administrator
Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles, CA
2025-present
- Acted as senior AWS administrator among a team of juniors and peers, along with a small architecture team
- Planned, designed, implemented, maintained, supported and repaired the District's AWS enterprise cloud infrastructure supporting many in-house and vendor applications
- Supported application infrastructure design and deployment using Elastic Container Service, Elastic Container Repository, Azure DevOps, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, IAM & IAM Identity Center, AWS Organizations and many other services central to District operations
- Performed monitoring and troubleshooting tasks across AWS and Azure DevOps
- Designed and implemented cloud disaster recovery operations and procedures using AWS best practices along with AWS Backup, AWS Route 53 and other multiregion services
- Led successful effort to implement IaC practices using Terraform, including in-house module development geared around District policies and best practices
- Performed security audits and remediation across various AWS services and in-house/vendor-supplied applications and associated infrastructure
- Managed highly-secured user and service access integrated with Azure AD/Entra, on-prem Active Directory, and AWS IAM/Identity Center
- Worked with external vendors to vet new applications and services to support ongoing cloud platform work
- Served on resource selection committees; performed vendor reviews and participated in RFC processes and vendor selections
DevOps Engineer
BioTech Medical Software
Honolulu, HI, Tacoma, WA & Long Beach, CA
2017–2025
- Senior infrastructure architect and engineer for legacy Perl (Catalyst/Mojolicious) and cloud-native backend REST API systems (Go/gin) and frontend user interfaces (Vue.js) supporting more than
10 state contracts and 200+ private business customers
- Co-led successful efforts to modernize our medication tracking platform (from manually-managed infrastructure and software release process to using
Terraform and Bitbucket Pipelines for automated releases and updates)
- Developed in-house IaC/IaaS deployment and management tools for various AWS services
- Responsible for software/network security, image management/maintenance and ecosystem architecture
- Created workflows to execute and support over 400 successful production-level PostgreSQL server migrations and upgrades
- Onboarded and supported 20+ integration partner companies to expand our platform's B2B services
- Acted as a final point of escalation for multiple departments including technical support, infrastructure and governmental affairs
Technical Consultant
Self-Employed
Washington State
2016
- Designed and supported secure wireless network topology and hardware for internal and guest networks in high-volume commercial environments
- Consulted on point-of-sale hardware purchase and installation
- Managed IT services for medium-to-large scale public event production
Technical Support Shift Lead
ReadyTech Corporation
Nieuwegein, Netherlands & Oakland, CA
2012–2016
- Led an international team of technical support staff during EMEA business hours
- Developed internal training and documentation materials
- Performed image intake and maintenance, including physical-to-virtual conversions and ground-up image design for use in private-cloud-based
software training IaaS
- Responsible for datacenter hardware/networking operations, documentation and support
Network Technician
OpenAccess Network Services
Bellingham, WA
2009-2011
- Provided phone, email and CMS-based support for various ISP products
- Responsible for datacenter and network hardware intake, configuration, testing and installation
- Performed on-site installation and support of fiber, copper and wireless networking infrastructure including in hazardous conditions
- Assisted in service/bandwidth provisioning, web/VPS hosting, physical colocation and light construction to deliver services