A Engineer
Learning and building for a decade, 5 years professional experience operating production infrastructure. 9+ Kubernetes clusters with 4 years zero downtime. Shipped FedRAMP and PCI-DSS compliant systems.
9+ K8S CLUSTERS
Professional Experience
Wafercode Inc.
Founder & Principal Engineer
- ▹ 9+ Kubernetes clusters with 4 years zero downtime
- ▹ Talos Linux, Flux, ArgoCD, GitOps
- ▹ Custom Rust/Axum usage calculator API on VictoriaMetrics
- ▹ PCI-DSS and CIS hardening with Ansible, OpenSCAP
Acquia Inc.
Senior Software Engineer
- ▹ FedRAMP compliance audit — delivered ahead of schedule
- ▹ Consolidated 7+ EKS clusters into multi-tenant platform
- ▹ Re-architected CI/CD pipelines — 15% runtime reduction
- ▹ 30% reduction in security alert volume with SAST/Trivy
Upwork (Freelance)
Top Rated Engineer
- ▹ 50+ engagements, 100% job success, $40K+ revenue
- ▹ Cacti-to-Zabbix migration with TimescaleDB
- ▹ Proxmox hypervisor infrastructure with REST API
- ▹ ELK + Prometheus — 60% cost reduction
hub Kubernetes & Containers
- • 9+ production clusters across Talos Linux with Flux/ArgoCD GitOps
- • Custom Rust/Axum usage calculator API on VictoriaMetrics
- • 7+ EKS clusters consolidated into multi-tenant platform at Acquia
CI/CD & GitOps
• Jenkins → ArgoCD/Flux migration reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
• GitOps with GitHub Actions + Terraform across AWS, GCP, Hetzner
• 15% pipeline runtime reduction at Acquia
cloud Cloud & Virtualization
• AWS EKS, GCP, OpenStack, Proxmox hypervisor infrastructure
• Custom Proxmox REST API for VM lifecycle management
• Proxmox live migration and automated workflows
monitoring Observability & Monitoring
• VictoriaMetrics for real-time resource usage reporting
• OpenTelemetry distributed tracing at scale
• Cacti-to-Zabbix migration with TimescaleDB backend
• ELK + Prometheus — 60% cost reduction for clients
security Infrastructure as Code & Security
• Terraform + Ansible for automated provisioning
• PCI-DSS and CIS hardening with OpenSCAP
• Vault, Dex, Hydra for secrets and auth
• 95% reduction in provisioning time
lan Networking & Storage
Networking Highlights
- • eBPF, PFRING, Suricata for inline IDS/IPS at line rate
- • WireGuard mesh VPN, HAProxy, NGINX
- • Cilium/Calico for L7 policy and service mesh
- • SNIProxy + c-ares for geolocation routing
Storage Highlights
- • Ceph distributed storage across 5-node cluster
- • 30TB encrypted backup infrastructure
- • PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB at scale
- • Redis caching for high-performance apps