I’m a Senior Engineering Manager with experience building high-impact cloud platforms and teams that scale globally. I focus on reducing complexity, improving reliability, and aligning technology with strategic business goals.
I mentor engineering leaders, shape organizational processes, and partner across product, operations, and executive leadership to deliver results at scale.
Leadership Focus
- Platform & Infrastructure Strategy: Define vision and roadmap for multi-team infrastructure platforms impacting global-scale services.
- Operational Excellence: Set standards for reliability, observability, and incident response across critical systems.
- Team Scaling & Development: Grow and mentor high-performing engineering teams, fostering leadership and cross-functional alignment.
- Cost & Complexity Management: Drive platform simplification, retire legacy systems, and optimize operational spend.
Experience
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Lead multiple engineering teams (7–16 engineers each) for Kubernetes Node Health, GPU support, and tier-0 infrastructure.
- Delivered observability platforms providing operational insights for millions of nodes globally.
- Implemented secure logging pipelines used across all customer tenancies.
- Drove multi-year legacy system retirement initiatives, realizing $50M+ annual savings.
- Partnered with product, SRE, and security leadership to unblock dependencies and define platform strategy.
- Supported rollout of new GPU architectures (GB200, GB300) and multi-cloud adoption.
Microsoft
- Built Azure Classroom Labs, enabling universities to deliver virtual labs without student accounts.
- Automated VM image creation for SQL IaaS, improving reliability from ~70% to mid-90s.
- Delivered monitoring and alerting systems to improve incident response and service visibility.
Commerce Technologies
- Maintained and extended integrations between DemandStream and Amazon.com, improving operational efficiency.
Pariveda Solutions
- Delivered client-facing full-stack applications on AWS and Azure while leading small project teams.
- Implemented agile delivery practices prioritizing rapid iteration and client feedback.
Projects & Highlights
- Hacking Hate Speech (Microsoft Hackathon): Led a team partnering with the Anti-Defamation League to build a machine-learning image classifier for hate symbols.
- DadJokeOfTheDay.com: Architected and operated a subscription SMS service at scale using Twilio and Azure.
Education
University of Washington
B.S. Informatics – Human-Computer Interaction