I’m a Data Infrastructure Engineer who loves the challenge of building massive, high-availability systems that just work. Over the last 4 years, I’ve specialized in the end-to-end architecture and deployment of global data platforms, with a heavy focus on standing up complex Kafka reporting and Striim pipelines across regions like Japan, Apac, Europe and North America. Whether it’s standardizing cloud governance or automating migrations that double a system's throughput, I’m at my best when I’m turning messy infrastructure into a scalable, well-oiled machine.
I tend to live at the intersection of infrastructure and security. I’ve led major shifts to enterprise-grade security models, like bringing HashiCorp Vault into our workflow for centralized credential management and locking down regional data products with zero-trust IAM protocols. I take a lot of pride in the high-stakes stuff—like migrating legacy workloads to Snowflake using Striim CDC pipelines while keeping downtime to an absolute minimum—because I know how critical that data is to the rest of the business.
Technical builds are only half the story, though. I’m a big believer in operational clarity and making sure the rest of the team isn’t flying blind. I’ve spent a lot of time building out observability suites in Grafana and Kibana so we can catch issues before they turn into fires, and I’m always the one writing the playbooks that make on-call rotations a little less stressful for everyone. For me, it’s all about solving those "unknown-unknowns" so that our data stays accessible and our engineers stay productive.
