About me

I kinda have a weird job.

On a day-to-day basis, I leverage over 15 years of full-stack software and cloud experience to engineer my organization’s way through thorny cloud-related problems, deliver an identity-centric cloud access strategy, and (try to) keep our cloud environments secure by default.

My professional journey has lately been focused on forming diverse yet secure cloud infrastructure environments and guiding high-level decision-making to deliver that vision. With a track record of designing and implementing services and strategies that accelerate developer operations while maintaining our security goals, I help my teams ship sustainable projects and, hopefully, help our partners work in better ways than they could before.

The cloud environments I work on tend to be large, which breaks a lot of vendors. As a result, we often have to either build or contribute solutions that meet our needs. Doing this requires a sometimes tricky blend of software and cloud infrastructure knowledge because what we deliver has to land, be well-tested and maintained, and be scalable and nuanced to our needs. As a result, I also end up mentoring folks on both ends of the software/infrastructure spectrum.

Finally, cloud security work involves a lot of coordination between the security team, other engineering teams, vendors, and cloud service providers. As such, I do a lot of writing, pitching, pleading, and planning.