My career is filled with leveraging open-source software to solve technical challenges and I’ve had a variety of experiences from presales/solution selling to engineering and system administration. I embrace challenges, am passionate about learning new technology and strive to be empathetic in my interactions with everyone.

Experience

  • Insulet Corporation | Staff DevOps Engineer – CI/CD Pipeline April 2025 - Present (5 months)

    Responsible for design, build, and maintenance of software development infrastructure supporting product development and distribution that tie to the company’s strategic imperatives.

    • Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
    • Apply T-Shape IAC Multi-Cloud expertise and Application Deployment
    • Define, implement, and maintain software configuration management plans (SCMP) supporting product development.
    • Write software and scripts to automate SCM workflows (i.e. E2E pipelines, DevSecOps, gating, and compliance as code)
    • Enable productivity insights, execution, quality and test automation to manage end-to-end SDLC
    • Architect and scale CI/CD workflows
    • DevOps coaching and support
    • Troubleshoot code and deployment errors on Linux and Windows sytems
    • Use Azure Cloud, Terraform and Azure DevOps to execute deployment pipelines

  • GitHub, Inc. | Senior Solutions Engineer (Enterprise) November 2021 - February 2025 (3 years 4 months)

    • FY23 Sales Club winner
    • Responsible for one of GitHub’s largest accounts worldwide with a portfolio of GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Copilot
    • Primary technical contact in the sales cycle for my accounts. Qualified pre-sales engagements using the MEDDPICC framework, often challenging customers to think about the root causes of their struggles instead of symptoms, and conducted POCs/POVs from beginning to end with a high rate of technical wins
    • Conducted training sessions for post-sales
    • Was the voice of customer feedback to internal product teams
    • Worked with product experts across GitHub’s offerings to provide roadmap or in-depth discussions where required

  • World Wide Technology | 5 years 2 months

    • Technical Solutions Architect | May 2020 - November 2021 (1 year 7 months)

      • Create labs and workshops involving application delivery services, public cloud and on-prem platforms, agile developmen frameworks and DevOps toolchains.
      • Ability to demonstrate business outcomes and value propositions
      • Customer-facing technical support for enterprise and federal opportunities across all vertical markets
      • Work with enterprise sales teams to provide the first-hand experience with integrated solutions
      • Becoming a subject matter expert in application delivery services and cloud networking products and technologies
      • Create detailed documentation and lab guides to be used for workshops, demonstrations, and education
      • Coordinate with the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) solutions engineers, and coordination with professional services to ensure delivery capabilities
      • Public Cloud Platforms – Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud
      • Virtualization Platforms – Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMWare vCloud and KVM
      • Agile Development Frameworks – Experience with agile development methodology including CI/CD implementations , DevOps toolchains, and associated infrastructure/application architectures

    • Practice Lead | HashiCorp | September 2019 - May 2020 (9 months)

      • HashiCorp Certified on Terraform
      • Become the HashiCorp products (Terraform, Vault, etc.) Technical SME for regional and national account teams
      • Implement use of HashiCorp products on customer engagements
      • Conduct customer workshops
      • Create demos, labs and articles on HashiCorp products

    • Practice Manager | Microsoft Azure February 2019 - September 2019 (8 months)

      • Lead a team of Technical Solutions Architects focused on Azure Pre-Sales and Implementation efforts
      • Grow the Microsoft Partnership via co-sell and other efforts (technical and sales training for the field)
      • Create Azure-focused demos, workshops, collateral for engineers in the field

    • Technical Solutions Architect I (Microsoft Azure) | July 2018 - February 2019 (8 months)

      • Set go-to-market strategy for WWT to grow the Multi-Cloud services and solutions business
      • Build and maintain collateral for the field to help them position and sell Multi-Cloud solutions
      • Train WWT and/or partners through roadshows and briefings on our unique ability to market, sell and deliver Multi-Cloud solutions
      • Collaborate with the rest of the Global Engineering teams and Professional Services organization to set the strategy for growing our Multi-Cloud services and solutions business
      • Participate in regular virtual team meetings and training on related to MultiCloud innovations and solutions
      • Develop partner ecosystem and relationships that are complementary to WWT’s go-to-market strategy around Multi-Cloud services and solutions
      • Support business development and marketing initiatives as needed
      • Achieve new Public Cloud platform certifications to advance Public Cloud partner status

    • Delivery Engineer (Application Services) | October 2016 - July 2018 (1 year 10 months)

      Delivery Engineers are responsible for spreading the knowledge, ideas, and hands-on implementation skills needed to deliver and run software services successfully. They are responsible for ensuring that teams understand the operational requirements and take a shared responsibility for the entire software life cycle. This includes hands-on involvement in building software deployment and testing pipelines along with automated provisioning of infrastructure. They are also relied on to coach teams through their Agile/ DevOps journey.

      • Bridge silos and bring different teams together while working towards a common goal
        • Maintain existing and future software services code and configuration
        • Provide software architecture and infrastructure design recommendations
        • Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentor peers as required
        • Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines
        • General understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies
        • Work directly with customers/clients to improve quality of software delivery
        • Proficiency in building and managing Linux and Windows Systems
        • Experience working with server virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, and cloud environments
        • Experience with CI/CD principles, practices, and tools
        • Hands-on knowledge of scripting languages
        • Infrastructure automation (Terraform)
        • Configuration management (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)

  • Cisco Systems, Inc. | Software Engineer January 2015 - September 2016 (1 year 9 months)

    • Support and implement automation to deploy platform involving Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Influx, Sensu and Uchiwa
    • Containerize (Docker) Sensu stack (API, Server, Client, RabbitMQ and Redis)
    • Software automation via Configuration Management (Puppet and Ansible)
    • Agile software development experience
    • Occasional Python scripting and application development
    • Linux system administration and application deployment/support
    • Linux scripting/automation (Bash or Python scripting)
    • Database administration experience
    • Reporting and operational dashboards
    • Configuration management tools (Puppet and Ansible)
    • Familiar with PaaS solutions and cloud-based application development/deployment
    • Release management experience, especially in an operational setting
    • Automated deployment frameworks, continuous integration platforms
    • Vagrant, Jenkins, Nagios and Ruby experience
    • OpenStack experience (nice-to-have)

  • Older employment history available on LinkedIn here

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