Recent Roles & Outcomes
Index Exchange — Engineering Lead Manager
- Scaled engineering from 15 → 35; managed up to 21 ICs at peak.
- Established on-call SOPs & resiliency doctrine; aligned NOC/Dev/Ops coverage.
- OpEx reporting for pre-prod; rapid POC environments for dev velocity.
- Instituted periodic SWOTs for greenfield risk and prioritization.
Stack: Go, Perl, Apache, MariaDB/Galera, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Vertica, Redis, ESXi, AWS · IaC: GitLab CI, Ansible, Terraform
BiblioCommons — Mgr, Infra Ops & DevOps
- Built DevOps function for Dev/QA/Product; adopted Kanban for flow.
- Created non-prod envs; org-wide release pipelines & escalation paths.
- Led a hybrid team of 4 (remote + onsite).
Stack: NERF, Tomcat, Rails, Jetty/Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Solr · AWS + on-prem · Config: Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation
Sysomos — Sr Manager, Infra Ops
- Owned two DCs + AWS with team of 10; automated provisioning to self-healing services.
- Embedded Ops rotation into product teams for continuous context.
Stack: Nginx, Tomcat, Java, Solr, HBase · Config: Puppet
eBay (Kijiji) — Sr DevOps Engineer
- Led site migration; built Prod/Perf/Load, UAT, QA, SIT-CI environments.
- Standardized stacks & config mgmt across Tomcat, MySQL, Solr, Hadoop, Riak.
Puppet (2.7→3.6), Debian→Ubuntu 14.04