Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
● Tech lead for a team of up to 5 backend, frontend, QA and SRE engineers
● Architected and led implementation of a redesign of NS1’s API authorization subsystem from an aging attribute based permissions system to a modern, policy based, RBAC system written in Go
● Led migration of several legacy API endpoints, including NS1’s SAML service provider, from python backend to modern Go backend
● Mentored and supported junior engineers, contractors and other team members
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
New York City Metropolitan Area
● Architected and implemented a traffic steering solution via Envoy, Consul, Nomad and a custom Go process to seamlessly route API requests to the correct backend.
● Acted as tech lead for a feature to provide dynamic DNS support across geographically disparate datacenters. This required writing technical requirements, architecting the technical implementation, planning the work and implementing the feature in Go backend.
● Contributed code, designed new features and managed external PRs for multiple SDKs, including those written in Go and Python
● Designed and implemented several integrations with the NS1 API, including a Terraform provider, Ansible modules, AviNetworks GSLB and Consul.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
New York City Metropolitan Area
● Architected and implemented SaaS hosting platform for financial software on AWS, including automation of account creation, monitoring, logging and single-tenant directory services implementation via Terraform and Ansible
● Automated enterprise wide public cloud workflows, including monitoring and logging, governance and resource deployments via Ansible, Terraform, Python and CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins. Architected and implemented solutions using Kinesis, Lambda, CloudTrail and CloudWatch
● Led PoC to purchase of cloud cost governance tooling, requiring the creation of custom Ansible roles for implementation and Python tooling for implementation
● Built custom Ansible dynamic inventory provider for AWS Organizations in Python
● Added Active Directory support for RDS to Terraform via merged PR, written in Golang
2015 — 2018
New York City Metropolitan Area
● Led the infrastructure integration of 4 acquired companies across numerous geographically disparate offices, including Active Directory, voice, email, networks, workstations and servers
● Architected and led the implementation of a 24x7x365 SaaS hosting platform for financial software on FactSet’s private cloud utilizing VMware, NSX, RHEL and Windows, which is now a revenue generating platform hosting software for numerous large financial customers.
● Managed a team of up to 15, geographically dispersed engineers
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Networking and Systems Administration
2004 — 2009