I have been with 2 teams within IBM Cloud:

Private DNS:

Took Global Load Balancing with health checks from POC to GA across 21 data centers. Built several internal services (including one that manages VPC infrastructure), designed microservices in Go/gRPC/etcd, and owned CI/CD pipelines that deployed our services worldwide. My work spanned backend dev, DevOps, networking (BGP, systemd, DNS proxies), and production automation.

Cloud Databases (current):

I build and operate the automation that runs tens of thousands of customer databases across 100+ Kubernetes clusters. That includes controllers/operators for renewing certificates, rotating credentials, applying allowlists, managing backups, performing image updates, and coordinating releases at global scale.

I focus heavily on reliability and operations, building observability dashboards, tuning alerting (Prometheus/Alertmanager/PagerDuty), and debugging customer-impacting issues during on-call. I also analyze alert patterns and cluster metrics to reduce noise and improve stability.

On the platform side, I’ve led several multi-cluster engineering efforts:

Profitability & efficiency: Drove initiatives that increased revenue and cut infrastructure costs by $13M+ (autoscaling fixes, worker/node consolidation, removing orphaned storage, and redesigning CPU provisioning models).

Release modernization: Rebuilt our monolithic release system into independent ArgoCD pipelines, reducing release cycles from weeks to hours.

In-place upgrades: Helped architect and deliver the platform that enables in-place DB upgrades, now used for 10K+ upgrades/month.

Compliance & security: Designed credential-rotation and IAM/network-based access control systems to meet PCI 4.0, C5, FSCloud, and ENS-High requirements.

Across both teams, I’ve worn many hats — backend engineer, infrastructure engineer, SRE, and now team lead for platform-level initiatives — always with a focus on reliability, automation, and measurable business impact.

In short: augmented reality, photogrammetry, and deploying cheesy burgers to production.

The exciting challenge of bringing a truly unique experience to thousands of readers and supporting all of their devices was made especially fun by the series of cheeseburger photoshoots we did around LA. 10/10 internship!

Enterprise Information Systems

Developed front- and back-end features for an inventory resource and task management application that integrated internal REST APIs to automate form-filling and task-tracking, which accelerates rocket assembly.

Scope USC is about teaching the computer science student to become a computer science developer. Recruitment efforts led hundreds to apply to become members of the first Scope squad. Over a single semester, Scope has become a tight community of students with eager dev DNA. Last semester, Scope succeeded in teaching its members to develop for iOS and Android.

For Demo Night, reached out to local tech companies to create a meetup on campus during which members show off their mobile development projects.