Résumé

Experience & education

May 2024 – Present

Systems Architecture Director

Avaya

Full-time

Lead systems and platform architecture for large-scale communications software — guiding design, infrastructure strategy, and the engineering practices that keep production systems reliable.

Sep 2019 – May 2024

Director of Platform Services

Edify

Fishers, Indiana

Led a team focused on keeping global Kubernetes clusters online, while owning build pipelines and backend development on the infrastructure side.

Jul 2011 – Sep 2019

Lead Software Engineer

Sharpen

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Led development and maintenance of the company's software products, and owned infrastructure and development tooling that supported the engineering org.

2005 – 2010

BA, Information Systems

Anderson University

Skills

Languages & Runtimes

Node.jsGoPHPBashPython

Infrastructure & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesArgoCDMicroK8sARC RunnersGitHub EnterpriseSOPSHelmTerraform

Cloud Platforms

AWSGCPAzure

Data & Storage

PostgresMySQLRedisElasticsearchMinIOZot

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaLoki

Telephony

DrachtioAsterisk

Ingress

NginxMetalLB

AI & Dev Tools

ClaudeCursorChatGPTOpenClawLens