OPERATIVE HISTORY04
Work History
ACTIVE ASSIGNMENT
Cloud Automation Engineer
Geotab
Aug 2025 – Present · Atlanta, GA
- Migrating the PowerShell-based automated task platform to Python for native Argo Workflows support; reduced task failure rates by 30%
- Built a production multi-agent AI system as a Claude Code skill - orchestrator runs agents concurrently against Prometheus, BigQuery, and gcloud APIs through MCP servers; cut MTTD 40%, MTTR 30%
PythonGKEArgo WorkflowsTerraformPrometheusBigQueryMCP
COMPLETED
Graduate Researcher (M.S. Thesis)
University of Georgia
Aug 2024 – Aug 2026 · Athens, GA
- Designed and built FaaSpot (ACM Middleware '26): ~17.5K lines of Python running serverless DAG workflows on spot
- Built FaaSpot's Kubernetes platform from scratch: 16-node kubeadm VM cluster on bare metal running Fission, with NodePort routing and per-task ConfigMaps
PythonKubernetes (kubeadm)FissionMySQLAWS SpotPrometheus
COMPLETED
Site Reliability Engineer
American Express
Jun 2022 – Jul 2024 · Atlanta, GA
- Operated shared AWS platform across 6 PCI-supporting production accounts at 99.9999% uptime: EKS, RDS/Aurora, IAM, S3, Lambda, Transit Gateway, multi-account VPC networking
- Built Python and Bash automation for instance rightsizing, idle-resource cleanup, and off-hours autoscaling - cut cloud spend by $200K+/month
AWS EKSAurora/RDSLambdaTerraformPythonBashDatadogDynatraceSplunkTypeScriptCI/CD
COMPLETED
Software Engineer
NCR Corporation
Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · Atlanta, GA
- Built multi-threaded Java Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs on GKE at 10K+ req/min on PostgreSQL with RBAC
- Adopted gRPC for high-frequency paths and migrated 20-30 REST APIs to Apigee X, improving performance 30%
JavaSpring BootGKEgRPCApigee XPostgreSQLFedRAMP