Experience

The Farmer's Dog

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Platform Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Present



Blue Apron

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager, DevOps

  • Mar 2020 - Feb 2022

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

  Hired to help rebuild and re-architect a large-scale e-commerce deployment to bring it more in line with the company's post-IPO needs. Working on tuning and disaster recovery for PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka clusters, an end-to-end CI/CD system featuring Jenkins pipelines and Kubernetes, and helping various teams of developers and stakeholders to make the best use of the many platforms and tools that we use.



Boxed

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2016 - Feb 2019

  Hired to start an in-house DevOps team for an established e-commerce startup. Took over maintenance and management of a large ansible-based AWS deployment. Worked with an outside consultancy to refine existing systems and start a transition to Docker and Kubernetes. Extensively worked with in-house security team to harden infrastructure and work to mitigate ongoing persistent threats. Oversaw hiring, ran sprint planning, and interfaced with a number of outside vendors. Hired to start an in-house DevOps team for an established e-commerce startup. Took over maintenance and management of a large ansible-based AWS deployment. Worked with an outside consultancy to refine existing systems and start a transition to Docker and Kubernetes. Extensively worked with in-house security team to harden infrastructure and work to mitigate ongoing persistent threats. Oversaw hiring, ran sprint planning, and interfaced with a number of outside vendors.



Pebble Tech

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• WebOps Developer

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2016

  Built out an internal deployment platform to host company-wide web app needs, based on AWS, Docker, and CoreOS. Responsible for deployment debugging, troubleshooting, support, platform development, capacity planning, and downtime mitigation. Built out an internal deployment platform to host company-wide web app needs, based on AWS, Docker, and CoreOS. Responsible for deployment debugging, troubleshooting, support, platform development, capacity planning, and downtime mitigation.



Avius Labs, LLC

• Greater New York City Area

• Founder, Lead Consultant

  • Mar 2014 - Jan 2015

  Managed a small DevOps consultancy, helping startups make educated, well-considered decisions about their deployment and automation choices. Managed a small DevOps consultancy, helping startups make educated, well-considered decisions about their deployment and automation choices.



Blend.io

• New York, NY

• JavaScript Engineer

  • Jul 2013 - Mar 2014

  Lead backend engineer for social network focused on music collaboration. Used Node.js and MongoDB to handle user-graph data; learned to manage, profile, and optimize MongoDB for production use in a clustered environment. Lead backend engineer for social network focused on music collaboration. Used Node.js and MongoDB to handle user-graph data; learned to manage, profile, and optimize MongoDB for production use in a clustered environment.



Nodejitsu, Inc.

• Head of DevOps

  • Jun 2011 - Jul 2013

  Managed the team that handled server administration, maintenance, and deployments to thousands of cloud VMs, all running node.js. Managed the team that handled server administration, maintenance, and deployments to thousands of cloud VMs, all running node.js.