Results-driven individual with a passion for all things Kubernetes & Application Security comprised of a demonstrated history of scoping, developing, and delivering solutions to customers.
Lead solution design and implementation of Crossplane & Kubernetes based platforms at enterprise and hyperscale levels for Fortune 100 & Fortune 500 companies, eliminating their need to re-platform again
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Built self-service Crossplane APIs enabling developer golden paths for everything-as-a-service, improving velocity, reducing risk through reusable compositions, and preventing drift with reconciliation saving up to 98% on DevOps engineering costs
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Drove infrastructure cost optimization for customers by consolidating and decommissioning unused cloud resources
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Acted as a critical liaison between product, engineering, and post-sales teams, driving customer feedback into the product roadmap and engineering prioritization
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Established myself as the trusted technical advisor with prospects during deals and coached sales teams on platform value propositions aligned with customer needs
Designed and implemented Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solution for customer reducing number of VM cores statically allocated saving a projected 22% on their cloud computing costs
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Developed a robust application scaling solution utilizing Kubernetes Event Driven Auto-scaler (KEDA) to
dynamically scale application resources based on workload demands
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Conducted comprehensive performance testing and analysis to identify scalability bottlenecks, fine tuning AKS configurations and scaling thresholds to maximize application responsiveness and minimize latency
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Implemented monitoring and logging solutions, leveraging AKS integrations with Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure managed Prometheus to gain real-time visibility into application performance, scaling events and resource utilization
Participated in the Microsoft Quest rotation program where field resources are leant to product groups
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Owned and launched Web App Routing public preview - a fully managed ingress solution for AKS powered by NGINX minimizing customer day 0 pain points
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Owned and launched KEDA public preview for AKS, providing a fully managed horizontal scaling solution for customers unblocking multiple Azure Top 500 customers in their increased consumption of AKS
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Prepared demoes and presentations for Kubecon EU 2022 and MS Build 2022
Lead the development of Procmon-for-Linux bringing the preview to Github July 2020
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Identified EBPF (Extended Berkley Packet Filter) as a critical framework for Procmon-for-Linux enabling it to retrieve call stacks with minimum overhead on target applications
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Constructed and managed CI/CD pipeline for the Sysinternals for Linux project comprised of custom docker agents
