Experienced Infrastructure Architect, Senior DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, and technical leader available for full-time, contract, or fractional infrastructure/software work.
I have 20+ years of professional experience building, modernizing, automating, and operating Linux infrastructure and production software systems at scale. My background spans software engineering, datacenter operations, production Linux systems, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, high-availability systems, cloud migration, observability, database migrations, and infrastructure modernization.
I specialize in helping companies move from older bare-metal or self-hosted environments into modern containerized and cloud-native platforms, while also building the software tools needed to automate, deploy, monitor, and operate those systems reliably.
Core experience includes:
Linux systems administration and infrastructure architecture
Software engineering in Python, Bash, PHP, and Go
Docker and Kubernetes deployments
Bare-metal to containerized infrastructure migrations
AWS / EKS production environments
High-availability systems using Pacemaker, Corosync, RabbitMQ, and MySQL
CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
Python and Bash automation
Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana monitoring
Zero-downtime production migrations
Production support, incident response, and reliability engineering
Team leadership, hiring, mentoring, and technical planning
Recent work includes leading DevOps teams, developing internal software tooling, migrating large production systems, moving an 11 TB Percona database environment to Amazon Aurora, and building automation for emergency communications systems where downtime was not acceptable.
I am based in the Central Coast / San Luis Obispo County area and am open to local, hybrid, remote, contract, and consulting opportunities.
Ideal roles:
Infrastructure Architect
Senior DevOps Engineer
Software Engineer
Platform Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Team Lead
Fractional DevOps Consultant