Systems engineer with 10+ years building distributed infrastructure, from network operating systems at AT&T/Brocade to AI-powered platforms. I specialize in taking ambiguous technical problems in complex environments and making them tractable—bridging the gap between what teams say they need and what they actually need. Currently focused on foundation model integration, agentic development workflows, evaluation frameworks, and production AI systems.
Linux Operating System Service Owner (Contract)
Johnson & Johnson | 2024 - 2025
- Owned the Ubuntu-based Linux platform-as-a-service end-to-end for J&J's Manufacturing Labs & Logistics division — reporting to three senior directors and directing a tiered L1–L3 technical support organization across global manufacturing sites
- Defined product vision and multi-year roadmap for the standardized OS platform, translating business, operational, and regulatory needs into prioritized capabilities while balancing reliability, security, cost efficiency, and GxP / 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
- Authored both the executive roadmap and engineering implementation guides for GxP-compliant environments — driving architecture decisions from initial evaluation through production deployment
- Designed cloud-integrated deployment architecture on AWS — App Runner-hosted frontends, FastAPI services over VPC connectors and Site-to-Site VPN to on-prem build infrastructure, Lambda for event-driven verification, and DynamoDB for build-state persistence — supporting Ottava and Monarch robotic medical systems with 25% reduction in technical downtime
- Directed cross-functional delivery across DevSecOps, IT, manufacturing engineering, and L1–L3 support — shipping the unified platform with a 90% reduction in deployment overhead
- Pioneered the AI-enabled Linux image build pipeline — an LLM-driven, RAG-backed recipe-to-ISO workflow that retrieves from a curated corpus of approved configurations and benchmarks, composes new images on natural-language intent, and runs automated GxP verification
- Architected ServiceNow enterprise integration connecting the Linux OS deployment lifecycle to J&J's change management, CMDB, GRC, and Incident Management modules — with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials, bidirectional webhook sync for CR approval gating, and drift-to-priority mapping (P1–P4) supporting 21 CFR Part 11 auditability
Senior Software Engineer
ViaSat | 2022 – 2024
- Built customer-facing networking-configuration services as containerized microservices on AWS (EKS for orchestration, Lambda for event-driven workflows, DynamoDB for state, SQS for asynchronous processing) — designed for horizontal scale, multi-tenant deployment, and integration with the broader networking control plane
- Operated the services in production end-to-end — Kubernetes (EKS) deployments, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability instrumentation (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog), and on-call response — driving reliability improvements over each release cycle
- Drove technical-design reviews and cross-team alignment with networking, platform, and product teams to ship features that materially expanded the configuration toolkit available to enterprise customers