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Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 4+ years owning production Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure. Reduced observability spend by 35%, infrastructure costs by 40%, and incident response time by 75% through improved monitoring, alert design, and operational practices. Built Terraform-based infrastructure and GitOps workflows, focused on reliability, cost control, and capacity planning.

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Experience Themes

Infrastructure Ownership

Owned production Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure at Groups360 (2 years) and Built Technologies (7 months). Migrated EKS provisioning to Terraform IaC, drove Argo CD GitOps adoption, and designed multi-AZ resilience with topology spread constraints and anti-affinity rules.

Cost Optimization

Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through six months of usage analysis and resource right-sizing. Cut observability spend by 35% via host optimization, log ingestion controls, and APM retention tuning.

Observability & Incident Response

Reduced incident response time by 75% across 40+ microservices at Built Technologies. Built 30+ actionable monitors at Groups360. Defined SLIs/SLOs aligned with business priorities. Led incident response and post-incident reviews.

Automation & Standards

Automated management of 200+ GitHub repositories with Terraform at Groups360. Built autoscaling CI infrastructure using GitHub Actions Runner Controller. Reduced CI/CD cycle time by 75% through parallel execution and dependency optimization at Built Technologies.

Personal Platform Project

UnifyOps — Internal Developer Platform

Built and operate an internal developer platform using Kubernetes, GitOps, and strict runtime isolation
Designed a three-tier stack model with enforced network boundaries and zero-downtime deploys
Created a shared core package enforcing logging, auth, and error contracts across services

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Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Groups360, Nashville, TN (Jan 2024 - Jan 2026)

Owned production Kubernetes/AWS infrastructure.

Key outcomes:

40% infrastructure cost reduction through usage analysis and right-sizing
35% observability savings via host optimization and log controls
Migrated EKS to Terraform IaC and drove Argo CD GitOps adoption

Site Reliability Engineer II

Built Technologies, Nashville, TN (Jan 2023 - Jul 2023)

Owned observability for 40+ microservices.

Key outcomes:

75% faster incident response across 40+ microservices
Implemented SLIs/SLOs aligned with business priorities
Integrated PagerDuty into on-call workflows

QA Automation Engineer

Built Technologies, Nashville, TN (Jan 2022 - Jan 2023)

Owned test automation and CI optimization.

Key outcomes:

75% faster CI/CD cycles through parallel execution
Built Onward Award recipient for sustained impact

Awards

Built Onward Award

Built Technologies, Dec 2022

Awarded to less than 10% of team members for sustained impact and ownership.

Stephen Campbell Math & Computer Science Award

Belmont University, 2021

Annual award for outstanding achievement in mathematics and computer science.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Entrepreneurship

Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Graduated Dec 2021)

GPA: 3.76 | Dean's List Fall 2019 - Fall 2020

Core Skills

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: EKS, HPA, Pod Disruption Budgets, multi-AZ scheduling, affinity rules

Infrastructure as Code & GitOps: Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, GitHub Actions

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, IAM)

Observability: Datadog (APM, logging, metrics, distributed tracing), SLIs/SLOs

Reliability Engineering: Incident response, load testing (k6), capacity planning, cost optimization