Critical consultation in Systems Architecture and Platform Engineering for Federal, DoD/IC, and commercial customers. Designed shared-services IC platforms across IL4/IL6+ using Kubernetes and AWS Government/Secret regions. Lead data-mesh architectures with Confluent Kafka enabling real-time SIEM/SOAR across global DoD facilities.
Experience
Cloud-native architecture lead across multiple DoD programs. Designed fast-data pipeline systems using CQRS to replace major ingestion bottlenecks enabling proactive operating models at scale. CNCF-certified Kubernetes training partner, delivering CKA/CKS/CKAD/KCNA preparation and DKP product training.
Designed the DevSecOps roadmap and template pipelines aligned with the DoD Platform One initiative. Member of the founding Platform One IronBank IT-Ops team. Built OCI image replication tooling with KeyCloak SSO integration and automated GitLab account provisioning.
Developed DevOps and Platform Engineering capabilities for DARPA space situational awareness programs. Pioneered K3s on embedded systems for air-gapped government hyperscaler deployments. Built satellite constellation simulation using CesiumJS and Python microservices on OpenShift.
Embedded application development and QA automation. Consolidated three separate testing frameworks into a unified cross-platform test base covering Linux and Windows targets, cutting production QA time by 50%.
TS/SCI (CI Poly)