Professional Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Trumid
Jan 2023 - current
- Reduced costs: decreased LogScale (Humio) and Filebeat expenses by >$375k / year; saved $900k / year (7% of company's AWS costs) by refining Karpenter EC2 instance selection in EKS.
- Improved LLM usage by updating repo prompts, adding references to Google's language style guides, and created custom slash commands for common workflows like Helm manifest rendering.
- Increased resilience to availability zone outages and lowered application storage costs by 80% via migration from EBS to a combination of EFS and node ephemeral storage.
- Instilled culture of democratic sprint retrospectives, post-mortems, and internal KPIs.
Contractor → FTE SWE II → SWE III → SWE IV
Nasdaq
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
- Promoted three times in four years, culminating in senior engineer.
- Led team responsible for ETL pipeline to ingest and standardize >1 billion FIX messages / day / client.
- Championed and designed CI/CD pipeline and DevOps infrastructure for Python application suite, including static typing, linting, Puppet module, PyPI server, unit tests, docs, and mentoring juniors.
- Migrated application from on-prem VMs to Kubernetes in EKS, creating Helm charts, Terraform modules, GitLab CI/CD pipeline, and DataDog and Splunk alerts.
- Reduced monthly AWS costs 40% via optimizing Kafka configuration and scaling down in off-hours.
Software Engineer I
Northrop Grumman
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
- Created convolutional neural network to classify CDMA radio signals at negative signal-to-noise ratios. Awarded trade secret for work, which was presented in internal symposium.
Skills
- LanguagesGo, Python, Bash, TypeScript, Java
- PlatformsLinux, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker
- NetworkingFIX, HAproxy, nginx, Istio, VPC, HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets, DNS, TLS
- Infrastructure as CodeHelm, Terraform, Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
- ObservabilityPrometheus / Grafana / Alertmanager, Falcon LogScale (Humio), Datadog, Splunk
- LLMs / AIHooks, memories, docs, and slash commands for AI (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini)
