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Summary

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 | Apr 2025 - Present

Highlights

  1. Architected and implemented transition of application delivery pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions

  2. Architected and implemented database migration from PostgreSQL v11 to PostgreSQL v17 with Citus (distributed and clustered PostgreSQL)

  • Reduced migration time from several days to ~6.5h
  • Architected and implemented retry logic in case of mid-migration failure
  • Developed Azure DevOps pipeline to automate overwhelming majority of the process
  • Responsible for all aspects of the migration data integrity / validation

Responsibilities

  • 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) | Nov 2021 - Feb 2025

Highlights

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • 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 - Nov 2021

  • 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 Practice | Sept 2019 - May 2020

  • 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 Practice | Feb 2019 - Sept 2019

  • 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 - Feb 2019

  • 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) | Oct 2016 - July 2018

  • 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 | Jan 2015 - Sept 2016

  • 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

  • Older employment history available on LinkedIn

Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) | University of Toronto