Experience

FullStory

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer

  • Apr 2023 - Nov 2023

  - Designed and implemented a Cloud Security Engineering program in GCP, reducing major cloud risks to all FullStory customers - Developed a tool in Golang to optimize IAM permissions for service accounts - Lead engineering teams through Kubernetes cluster migrations to increase k8s security posture - Shifted IAM practices from using service account keys to adopting Service Account Impersonation - Provide ongoing mentorship to increase security awareness amongst engineers -… Show more - Designed and implemented a Cloud Security Engineering program in GCP, reducing major cloud risks to all FullStory customers - Developed a tool in Golang to optimize IAM permissions for service accounts - Lead engineering teams through Kubernetes cluster migrations to increase k8s security posture - Shifted IAM practices from using service account keys to adopting Service Account Impersonation - Provide ongoing mentorship to increase security awareness amongst engineers - Champion continuous advancement in cloud security through the Architecture Design process Show less



Etsy

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Security Engineer

  • 2019 - Apr 2023

  - Played a key role in Etsy’s $275M acquisition of Reverb.com, drawing on my previous experience as Reverb.com’s sole infrastructure engineer. - Lead risk identification and mitigation efforts within Etsy's GCP environment - Lead incident response efforts in GCP - Engaged in architecture reviews, aiding Etsy's transition from datacenter operations to a full GCP environment. - Spearheaded the end-to-end deployment of CrowdStrike across all Etsy endpoints, including macOS, Windows… Show more - Played a key role in Etsy’s $275M acquisition of Reverb.com, drawing on my previous experience as Reverb.com’s sole infrastructure engineer. - Lead risk identification and mitigation efforts within Etsy's GCP environment - Lead incident response efforts in GCP - Engaged in architecture reviews, aiding Etsy's transition from datacenter operations to a full GCP environment. - Spearheaded the end-to-end deployment of CrowdStrike across all Etsy endpoints, including macOS, Windows, and Linux. - Developed ‘Reactor’, a GCP cloud function-based alerting system, alongside SIEM logging pipelines using Logstash and Filebeat.

• Senior Security Engineer II

  • Jan 2017 - Feb 2019

  - Transitioned from a bug bounty participant to a full-time role after reporting multiple network exposures to Etsy - Deployed OSQuery at scale for Etsy's OSX & Linux production fleet - Automated creation and delivery of OSX security software packages using Jenkins, JAMF and Autopkg. - Automated malware detection and triaging for Etsy OSX Fleet using OSQuery - Built and managed CI/CD pipelines for security tools - Developed SIEM tooling and automated bot responders using Google… Show more - Transitioned from a bug bounty participant to a full-time role after reporting multiple network exposures to Etsy - Deployed OSQuery at scale for Etsy's OSX & Linux production fleet - Automated creation and delivery of OSX security software packages using Jenkins, JAMF and Autopkg. - Automated malware detection and triaging for Etsy OSX Fleet using OSQuery - Built and managed CI/CD pipelines for security tools - Developed SIEM tooling and automated bot responders using Google Cloud Functions - Built alerting tools for Google Cloud Platform to warn about insecure configurations in real time - Built compliance and automated tooling enabling the Etsy Compliance team to audit our migration to Google Cloud - Contributed to open source security tooling



Reverb

• United States
• Musicians
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Nov 2014 - Jan 2017

  - First infra engineer for a rapidly growing musical instrument marketplace. - Designed and maintained scalable web infra for e-commerce backend on AWS - Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for all reverb.com supporting services - Contributed to and maintained multiple open source tools - Lead the application security effort at Reverb.com, participating in static and manual code analysis. - Ran HackerOne program for reverb.com, resulting in numerous bugs being found, triaged… Show more - First infra engineer for a rapidly growing musical instrument marketplace. - Designed and maintained scalable web infra for e-commerce backend on AWS - Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for all reverb.com supporting services - Contributed to and maintained multiple open source tools - Lead the application security effort at Reverb.com, participating in static and manual code analysis. - Ran HackerOne program for reverb.com, resulting in numerous bugs being found, triaged and patched. - Lead efforts resulting in the adoption of DevOps based tooling(Vagrant, Terraform, Docker) Show less



OpinionLab, A Verint Company

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Operations Engineer

  • Oct 2013 - Nov 2014

  Chicago, Illinois, United States - Architected AWS staging and production environments for OpinionLab Comment Collection services - Developed an logging pipeline using Logstash and Elasticsearch for production web traffic analysis - Authored Chef cookbooks for both NextGen and Legacy services - Ensured smooth operations across 100+ production servers.



SLEEPY GIANT ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

• United States

• DevOps Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Oct 2013

  Chicago, Illinois, United States - Worked with many leading game publishers(2K Games, Bethesda Softworks) to support their backend systems using Chef and AWS - Build CI/CD Pipelines to automate tests and deployments for many leading game studios - Integrated push button deploys using Jenkins/Chef for Staging, QA & Production - Monitored thousands of production servers using Sensu for multiple Sleepy Giant clients



Threadless

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Jan 2012 - Nov 2012

  Chicago, Illinois, United States - Managed 60+ production servers using Chef in AWS - Designed secure EC2 networking architecture before AWS VPC existed - Implemented CI/CD and push button deploys for all Threadless codebases with Jenkins - Engineered MongoDB cluster to support Following/Notifications which supported millions of documents - Built staging environment for all QA testing before code is released to production - Implemented Sensu monitoring framework to allow for a rapidly scalable monitoring system.



GigeNET

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Chicago, Illinois, United States - Developed an automated dedicated server provisioning system using GNU/Linux, Python, PXE, DHCP and TFTP protocols. - Team Lead for DevOps team which was responsible for multiple automation projects(Building, Provisioning, Management, Cancellation and Suspension of dedicated servers) - Ported over legacy PHP/PERL code in Gigeportal application. Primary uses were service management & cancellation, cisco switch port activation/deactivation and inventory cabinet control. - Provided… Show more - Developed an automated dedicated server provisioning system using GNU/Linux, Python, PXE, DHCP and TFTP protocols. - Team Lead for DevOps team which was responsible for multiple automation projects(Building, Provisioning, Management, Cancellation and Suspension of dedicated servers) - Ported over legacy PHP/PERL code in Gigeportal application. Primary uses were service management & cancellation, cisco switch port activation/deactivation and inventory cabinet control. - Provided mentoring to the Support and Sales teams for dedicated servers Show less



Zurich Beauty and Spa

• Systems Engineer

  • Mar 2009 - Jan 2011

  Chicago, Illinois, United States Built and managed corporate infrastructure for two office locations in Chicago & Los Angeles. Built and maintained data center infrastructure, GNU/Linux based web servers, VPN(IPSEC, PPTP) & database servers. Provided technical advice & software development expertise to marketing, sales and web teams



Bird-X

• United States
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2009

  Chicago, Illinois, United States Designed and managed corporate infrastructure including VMWare, Citrix & Exchange servers. Managed web infrastructure for an e-commerce platform doing 2M+ sales yearly Built office IT infrastructure to facilitate move from old HQ to new Developed intranet applications using PHP and Django for use by Sales/Marketing departments. Provided end-user support to users & executives. Migrated aging exchange 5.5 server to Exchange 2007



The RDI Group

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Administrator

  • Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Itasca, Illinois, United States Built and maintained corporate infrastructure for two office locations in Chicago and Baunach, Germany. Set up internal IT ticketing system to track repeat problems across departments Provided technical advice & support to engineers and sales departments. Developed an open source disaster recovery plan & maintained 30+ servers for 24/7 operations. Managed on-site and off-site backups for both locations ensuring data consistency & security.



William and Mary Computer Center

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Computer Technician

  • Sep 2005 - Jan 2007

  Rock Falls, Illinois, United States Build and repaired desktops & servers for clients and walk-in customers. Built LAN & WAN networks for local businesses including government agencies. Deployed labs for local school districts using batch and bash scripts