Experience

Linus Health

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr Director of Security and Systems Engineering

  • Jan 2022 - Present



Fincura

• United States
• Software Development

• Director of Systems and Security

  • Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

  At Fincura, I oversaw all internal systems and production infrastructure. The functions of Information Technology, Security Operations, and Site Reliability are unified under the common goal of building and maintaining trustworthy systems to deliver efficient business outcomes across internal and external users.Included within that scope:- Obtaining and maintaining the SOC2 Type II certification.- The security obligations under various compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC2), state/federal regulations (e.g. GLBA), and customer expectations.- The Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) to deliver on requirements through operational controls, risk management processes, policies, and procedures.- Business-wide security awareness training and testing.- The CI/CD systems which test code, build artifacts, and provide actionable feedback to developers.- Establishing KPIs and alerting systems to encourage developer ownership of production.- The construction, maintenance, and security of our production cloud environments.- The definition and monitoring of our Service Level Agreements, Objectives, and Indicators (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs). Show less

• Lead Site Reliability Engineer

  • Oct 2018 - Nov 2020



VMware Carbon Black

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Site Reliability Engineer

  • Dec 2016 - Oct 2018

  Focused on building and supporting production environments with strict uptime and security requirements. Enabling teams to move faster by building tooling and shared systems (monitoring, alerting, and logging) while reducing the cost of goods delivered.- Designed and lead implementation of a multi-tenant TICK stack (telegraf, influx, chronograf, kapacitor)- Built application and docker build pipelines with GitLab Enterprise- Wrote automation in SaltStack for management of 1000 AWS EC2 instances- Leveraged infrastructure-as-code to create repeatable and reliable services (Troposphere, Terraform)- Architected and managed AWS services to deliver on business needs (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS, etc.) Show less

• Associate Member of Technical Staff, R&D

  • Jun 2015 - Dec 2016



Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - May 2015



VMware Carbon Black

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Engineering Intern

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014



MIT Lincoln Laboratory

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013