Experience

Stake Capital Group

• Luxembourg
• Blockchain Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of DevOps

  • Mar 2021 - 2 years 10 months

  Full Remote Comprehensive management and deployment of mainnet and testnet blockchain full nodes and validators, including key management automation, utilizing Terragrunt and Ansible within a sophisticated AWS multi-account, cross-region architecture. This role encompasses seamless integration with the AWS CI/CD stack, ensuring efficient and secure operations for Stake DAO and BlackPool DAO and Stake Capital platforms. • Managing and deploying mainnet and testnet blockchain full nodes and… Show more Comprehensive management and deployment of mainnet and testnet blockchain full nodes and validators, including key management automation, utilizing Terragrunt and Ansible within a sophisticated AWS multi-account, cross-region architecture. This role encompasses seamless integration with the AWS CI/CD stack, ensuring efficient and secure operations for Stake DAO and BlackPool DAO and Stake Capital platforms. • Managing and deploying mainnet and testnet blockchain full nodes and validators for various networks such as Cosmos, Polygon, Elrond, Livepeer, Terra, Celo, Harmony, Nucypher, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot/Kusama, Tezos, XDAI/Gnosis, Audius, Near, Eth 2, Reef, Ronin, Arbitrum, Heco, BSC, DeBridge, Lukso, Pokt, Celestia, Flare, DyDx, Eigenlayer. • Ensuring seamless integration of execution layer clients (geth, besu, nethermind) and consensus layer clients (teku, lighthouse, prysm, lodestar) within the blockchain infrastructure. • Implementing and managing key management solutions such as web3signer, HashiCorp Vault, AWS CloudHSM, and AWS KMS. • Automating and streamlining deployment processes using tools like terragrunt and ansible. • Developing and maintaining a multi-account, cross-region architecture on AWS, leveraging AWS CI/CD stack to ensure high availability and reliability. • Troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure-related issues to maintain optimal performance and security. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of blockchain infrastructure with other components of the DeFi ecosystem. • Continuously staying updated on the latest trends and technologies within the blockchain and DeFi space, and implementing best practices to improve infrastructure efficiency and security. Show less



Hyland

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer - Global Cloud Services

  • Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

  Westlake, OH (Full Remote) Combined extensive Development, Infrastructure, Security, Engineering, and Consultancy experience from a best in class DevOps practice in the Alfresco PaaS



AVIO Consulting

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

• Cloud Architect - Managed Services

  • Dec 2019 - Aug 2020

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area, TX (Full Remote) Infrastructure as code design, implementation and documentation of modularized reference multi-cloud, multi-account, multi-region architecture using terraform • Conducted multiple POCs and workshops involving Terraform, HashiCorp vault, Ansible, AWS, docker, go. • Composed multiple knowledge base articles describing Terraform modularized architectures, Test Driven infrastructure and Infrastructure As Code Collaborative workflows



PayLess Apartments

• United States
• Real Estate

• Principal Solutions Architect

  • May 2019 - Dec 2019

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area (Partial Remote) Lead and drive the successful rollout of modern IT architecture at PayLess Apartments to support the current stack (WP + MySql + ELK) and future organization needs (React.Js and React Native + Serverless), Planned, implemented and ensured ongoing management of high-quality coding standards and best practices during SDLC/CICD. • Extensive experience working in automation first environments promotions Continuous Integrating/Continuous Delivery and infrastructure as code. • Solid… Show more Lead and drive the successful rollout of modern IT architecture at PayLess Apartments to support the current stack (WP + MySql + ELK) and future organization needs (React.Js and React Native + Serverless), Planned, implemented and ensured ongoing management of high-quality coding standards and best practices during SDLC/CICD. • Extensive experience working in automation first environments promotions Continuous Integrating/Continuous Delivery and infrastructure as code. • Solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and AWS cloud computing platform. • Mentored and trained the whole team on complex technical patterns and best practices. Show less



ClaimRuler

• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • May 2017 - May 2019

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area Cloud infrastructure as code, CICD automation, Distributed Systems Architecture design and implementation



Kaplan

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer II

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2017

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area Prototyping and orchestration of full end to end CI/CD Pipelines using cutting edge technologies for all SDLC stages for traditional and Serverless architectures. Highlights • Architected high performance / provider agnostic on premise-to-cloud storage SDK. (C#/AWS) • Extensive hands on experience with AWS in Cloud Formation (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, Route53, RDS, Lambda, Api Gateway, EFS, SES, SNS, SQS, ElasticCache) • Focused on process improvement, standards and automation reducing… Show more Prototyping and orchestration of full end to end CI/CD Pipelines using cutting edge technologies for all SDLC stages for traditional and Serverless architectures. Highlights • Architected high performance / provider agnostic on premise-to-cloud storage SDK. (C#/AWS) • Extensive hands on experience with AWS in Cloud Formation (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, Route53, RDS, Lambda, Api Gateway, EFS, SES, SNS, SQS, ElasticCache) • Focused on process improvement, standards and automation reducing cost, continuous integration, increase creativity, and focus IT on core business needs. (Vagrant, Packer, Ansible/Salt, Docker, Jenkins) Show less



Santander Private Banking International

• United States
• Banking
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Development Analyst

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2016

  Miami Drive, manage and direct multiple global impacting critical applications and interfaces to support credit risk and compliance. Highlights • Led requirement gathering, development, and launch of a Credit Risk Management System which enhanced average loan disbursement times from 20-30 days to hours by automating flows, document generation and reduced operation risk in Miami and Geneva, CH offices (C# / Oracle) • Worked closely with cross functional teams through migration and… Show more Drive, manage and direct multiple global impacting critical applications and interfaces to support credit risk and compliance. Highlights • Led requirement gathering, development, and launch of a Credit Risk Management System which enhanced average loan disbursement times from 20-30 days to hours by automating flows, document generation and reduced operation risk in Miami and Geneva, CH offices (C# / Oracle) • Worked closely with cross functional teams through migration and re-engineering of multiple legacy technologies to an integral solution to handle incoming and outgoing Fed and Swift payments including OFAC verification and core system Integration via SOAP/REST web services (C#, SQL & Oracle) • Wrote hundreds of properly optimized stored procedures composed of complex T-SQL queries and PowerShell Scripts to account for C.R.U.D operations, financial reporting, and SSIS tasks Show less



Barry University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application Developer

  • Dec 2008 - Aug 2011

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area Translated software requirements from new and existing clients into workable programming code in order to develop, support, update, document and troubleshoot campus wide used software. Ensuring quality deliverables on schedule. Writing detailed documentation for the operation of the program by users and computer operators. Highlights • Developed Equipment Inventory Management System (VB.Net, C#, SQL) • Developed SQL scripts to Insert, Update, Delete and Merge data in the database… Show more Translated software requirements from new and existing clients into workable programming code in order to develop, support, update, document and troubleshoot campus wide used software. Ensuring quality deliverables on schedule. Writing detailed documentation for the operation of the program by users and computer operators. Highlights • Developed Equipment Inventory Management System (VB.Net, C#, SQL) • Developed SQL scripts to Insert, Update, Delete and Merge data in the database tables along with SQL joins and cursors Show less