Define and execute platform engineering strategy to boost scalability, reliability, and developer productivity across all application deployments

Lead administration of on-site Kubernetes clusters, optimizing cluster resiliency, monitoring and integration with CI/CD pipelines to cut downtime and quicken release cycles

Implement GitOps-driven CI/CD workflows with Argo CD, enabling fully declarative service deployments and cutting commit-to-deployment lead time

Collaborate with software engineers to refine build and release processes for greater speed and reliability

Architect and automate bare-metal provisioning with Ansible, standardizing Red Hat-based systems for idempotent configurations and streamlined on-boarding

Monitor on-prem infrastructure health using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager, and lead incident triage during outages

Train software engineers on Kubernetes best practices, GitOps principles, and incident response, accelerating team self-sufficiency

Member of Firmware Test Engineering Team, Software Development - Platform Engineering

Administered on-prem Docker Swarm cluster to ensure resilient, high-availability application deployments

Automated CI/CD pipelines using Portainer, Gitea, and Drone CI for commit-to-deployment workflow

Built and maintained automation tools in Python and Go to streamline infrastructure support and maintenance

Provisioned and maintained bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure for on-prem environment

Developed a Python-based framework to orchestrate third-party SSD test suites, aggregate results, and accelerate validation

cycles

Delivered an API-driven inventory management microservice using Flask and MongoDB

Configured Supermicro, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo test bench servers

Executed firmware validation on Windows Server for enterprise solid-state drives using internal white-box testing platform

Conducted initial failure investigations to diagnose test breakdowns and isolate root causes

Collaborated with firmware and test engineering teams to retest and validate fixes

Member of the ATF (Acceptance Test Framework team) under the Storage Research and Design Center (SRDC)

Develop and maintain automation tools and test infrastructure in order to support test automation framework

Test automation script development for Linux/Windows systems for SSD testing

Maintain support infrastructure: Gitlab and Jenkins

Configure and deploy consumer and enterprise test systems

Run testing suites to verify solid state drive performance, health and compatibility with a focus on enterprise level testing

Test storage devices on multiple operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Red Hat 5/6, SUSE Enterprise Server 10/11, Ubuntu 12.04/12.10

Execute storage device testing programs such as ATTO, IOMeter 2010, FIO, Bonnie++, BARTS, and Anvil

Run backups with Acronis and Clonezilla

Develop and maintain Linux automated testing suites

RAID/JBOD testing with RAID controllers (LSI, Adaptec, HighPoint...) and onboard controllers through SAS/SATA interfaces, including software raid tests