Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 30+ years of experience designing, operating, and scaling large-scale internet platforms. Deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation. Led migration of Adobe Stock from physical datacenter infrastructure to AWS and supported environments spanning thousands of hosts globally.

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker

Observability
Splunk, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Cortex, New Relic

CI/CD & Automation
Jenkins, Git, Chef, Puppet

Languages
Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Ruby

AI-Assisted Development
Claude, Cursor, MCP, ChatGPT

• Supported and automated operations for a global fleet of ~5,000 hosts across multiple regions, providing production support, incident response, environment provisioning, and on-call coverage.
• Developed internal tooling and automation to improve SRE workflow efficiency, operational metrics collection, and team productivity.
• Authored architecture documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides used by engineering and operations teams.
• Led migration of Adobe Stock infrastructure from physical datacenters to AWS, eliminating on-prem hosting and enabling cloud-native operations.
• Implemented Terraform-based infrastructure management for Aurora, IAM, VPC networking, S3, autoscaling groups, and related AWS services.
• Modernized monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms through infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Migrated centralized logging infrastructure to Splunk and improved operational visibility across production systems.
• Expanded and maintained Jenkins-based CI/CD infrastructure supporting application deployment and configuration management workflows.

• Designed, built, and scaled AWS infrastructure supporting the i-Ready platform used by millions of K-12 students nationwide.
• Supported development, QA, testing, and production infrastructure across the full application lifecycle.
• Implemented and operated AWS services including EC2, RDS, Route53, IAM, S3, ElastiCache, ELB, and CloudWatch.
• Managed CI/CD, monitoring, and operational tooling including Jenkins, Puppet, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Tomcat.

Functioning as the Voice of Continuous Delivery Architecture for ZeroTurnaround's LiveRebel product line. Primarily working with the development and support teams to make sure LiveRebel is meeting the industry needs, while also doing webinars, demos, and talks on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery topics.
Also responsible for keeping up with current technology trends and making sure ZeroTurnarounds' products reflect industry changes.

Senior sysadmin for the online division of CBS (CBSI). Responsible for high availability media and content sites spread over several geographically diverse datacenters. Managed internal tasks, deployment projects, and tool management.
Was tech lead for evaluating and planning revamping the VMware infrastructure, including research, planning, support contracts, and documentation. Developed a multi-step project plan to bring 13+ disparate VMware clusters together in a new hosting facility, and migrate all existing customers.

(July 2009 to May, 2011)
Senior Operations Technical Lead responsible for project specification, planning and implementation within a 300+ server, multiple-data center environment. Various projects included:

• Implemented a new ground-up monitoring environment based on Zenoss, and migrated existing monitoring and alerting to it
• Designed and implemented a centralized deployment mechanism that utilized Puppet, DHCP, and Kickstart to "pushbutton generate" systems on both VM and Physical hosts.
• Intimately involved in planning and implementing datacenter consolidation and relocation.
• Reworked ticketing and task management practices in a migration to Jira
• Deployed Confluence wiki system and consolidated 6 seperate documentation systems into it (migrating from Notes, Mediawiki, and Sharepoint)
• Refactored many existing hosts into VmWare ESX hosted environments
• Designed, implemented, and deployed a centralized logging mechanism to allow single-point lookup, searching, and monitoring of multiple systems and services.
• Researched and implemented centralized authentication via Likewise on Linux hosts to authenticate against ActiveDirectory servers (migrating away from existing OpenLDAP / Redhat Community Server system)
• Implemented Agile techniques in department operations

(August 2008-July 2009)
Senior Java and Perl developer. Involved maintenance, debugging, and coding against an existing LAMP infrastructure. Application used heavy Perl OOP / Module methodology, mod-perl, Apache load balancing, and MySQL optimization.

• Platform Architect, Arete (2005-2008)
• Senior Unix Administrator, Intuit (2002-2004)
• Director of Network Engineering, Amaroq
• Tech Lead, White Pajamas
• IT Director, Wildfire
• Firewall Architect, Fidelity
• System Administrator, UniPress

Mercer County Community College
Computer Science program
1989 through 1991

Rochester Institute of Technology
Computer Science Major with emphasis on operating systems software.
1982 through 1983