Optimized CI/CD pipelines to reduce durations by 57% from ~7 minutes down to ~3 minutes per deploy, significantly increasing throughput for software releases.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Ops, SRE, and Product, to streamline processes and enhance communication, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Implemented SAST/IAC code scanning tools like Snyk to remediate vulnerabilities of NPM packages, container images, and OS vulnerabilities, resulting in a more secure software environment.

Performed application, container hardening, and enabled container build attestations via SBOM and provenance build annotations.

Enhanced technical documentation practices by documenting procedures and processes, implementing runbooks for on-call duties, and onboarding documentation ensuring that all team members have access to the most up-to-date information.

Managed Terraform and Kubernetes Config Connector definitions for AWS and GCP resources to ensure consistent deployment and configuration of resources across cloud platforms.

Mentor junior engineers on recommended design patterns/architecture, review merge requests for all changes, and monitor releases to ensure system stability while promoting best coding practices and knowledge sharing within the team.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement software solutions that enhance the customer experience.

Reviewed and updated existing documentation to reflect current project standards and practices, enhancing usability for future developers.

Developed and implemented security best practices for CI/CD processes, like SAST/IaC scanners and container hardening, ensuring robust protection against potential threats.

Participated in quarterly meetings with stakeholders from all the technical colleges to prioritize features, bug reports, and other initiatives within the project, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Partnered with DynaTrace to implement POCs to demonstrate usefulness of application monitoring and tracing to improve visibility of application errors and performance.

Designed and deployed a scalable OIDC SSO solution that streamlined authentication processes, significantly improving user experience across multiple internal applications.

Maintain server and networking infrastructure capable of handling thousands of devices and mission-critical services while ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Led committee to ensure internal policies and practices align with FERPA regulations while promoting a culture of compliance and accountability across the organization.

Implemented Jira ticketing software to improve IT efficiency and tracking across various departments, streamlining communication and reducing response times.

Developed core dashboards to view application stability

Assisted with migrations on on-premises applications to Amazon AWS

Lead small team to implement anti-virus software across the company

Identified and resolved key issues with highly available applications

Tasked with automating key processes to reduce overhead with detecting and configuring elastic compute instances on Amazon AWS

Served as point of contact for external vendors regarding the integration of vulnerability assessments and anti-virus suites

Rebuilt and upgraded key servers while maintaining up-time agreements

Automated deployment of Jenkin CI containers with Bash scripts

Architected solution to automatically configure EC2 instances with Ansible

Created automation scripts to deploy MongoDB sharded clusters