Principal-level Site Reliability Engineer and Platform Architect with 11+ years of experience driving infrastructure transformation across large-scale cloud environments. Builds and mentors high-performing teams that deliver secure, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly systems.
Cloud Platform Architecture • Reliability Engineering • Infrastructure as Code • DevOps • Developer Productivity • Security & Governance • SRE Leadership • Cost Optimization
AWS • GCP • Kubernetes • Terraform • Crossplane • Helm • Argo CD • Docker • Vault • Prometheus • Grafana • Datadog • SaltStack • GitHub Actions • Python • Go • Lua • Bash
Architected a high-performance Kubernetes-native API gateway platform that replaced legacy infrastructure. Introduced advanced traffic management, fault isolation, and observability—enabling millions of requests per minute with near-zero downtime.
Championed financial operations and resource governance strategies that achieved multi-million dollar compute savings. Led adoption of centralized secret management and automated compliance scanning across multi-cloud environments.
Designed GitOps-driven workflows with Argo CD and Terraform to unify CI/CD pipelines. Empowered engineering teams to deploy safely and independently through self-service tooling and policy-based automation.
Built observability-first culture through SLOs, incident retrospectives, and proactive telemetry improvements. Mentored SREs and developers on distributed systems, debugging, and operational excellence.
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