Professional Summary
Cloud/DevOps leader with 7+ years across release engineering and cloud operations in regulated (HIPAA) healthcare. Technical lead for a cloud delivery team managing 20+ production customer environments on AWS and Azure — owning the automation roadmap, incident response, release readiness, and audit preparation.
Technical Skills
Leadership: Team Leadership & Mentoring, DevOps Roadmap Planning, Incident Management & RCA, Release Coordination, Technical Hiring, Cross-Team Coordination, Agile Delivery
Cloud & IaC: AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, EBS, Auto Scaling, SSM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS), Azure (VMs, Availability Zones, ARM/Bicep), CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, GitOps, Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Delivery & Ops: GitLab CI/CD, Release Automation, Zero-Downtime Upgrades & Rollback, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Observability & Monitoring, Security Automation, IAM/Access Controls, Audit Readiness (ISO, HIPAA), Docker, JFrog Artifactory, DAST & Container Scanning, Python, Bash, Linux
Professional Experience
Cloud Developer (Technical Lead)
— InterSystems — Managed Cloud Services
2023 – Present
- Lead planning and sprint delivery for a 4-engineer cloud delivery team operating 20+ production customer environments on AWS and Azure for HIPAA-regulated healthcare clients.
- Define and execute the infrastructure automation roadmap across 3 deployment paths, standardizing IaC (CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Ansible) to cut configuration drift.
- Designed HA/DR placement for Azure — dynamic availability-zone scheduling and DR region-pair handling with compliant failover targets.
- Led security automation and ISO/HIPAA audit readiness across 4 control areas; tuned CloudWatch alarms to improve on-call signal quality.
- Decommissioned legacy access-management infra, repointing to SSM-based access — cutting recurring AWS spend by $12K+ annually.
- Coordinate 25+ production releases per year across Engineering, QA, Security, and Product.
Senior Release Engineer
— InterSystems
Apr 2023 – May 2023
- Established DAST from scratch with Acunetix, evaluating tools and standing up the platform end to end.
- Improved QuickBuild CI/CD pipelines, enabling more frequent and reliable software delivery.
Release Engineer
— InterSystems
2020 – Mar 2023
- Containerized 3 projects with Docker and set up Black Duck container scanning for supply-chain security.
- Owned build rotation, managed artifacts in JFrog Artifactory with AQL automation, and mentored 5 new engineers.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Education
M.S. Information Technology (Software Engineering)
Carnegie Mellon University, 2018–2019