Recro Corporation
2023 — Present
Principal Solutions Architect

Critical consultation in Systems Architecture and Platform Engineering for Federal, DoD/IC, and commercial customers. Designed shared-services IC platforms across IL4/IL6+ using Kubernetes and AWS Government/Secret regions. Lead data-mesh architectures with Confluent Kafka enabling real-time SIEM/SOAR across global DoD facilities.

AWSKubernetesConfluent KafkaDoD/ICPlatform EngineeringData Mesh
D2iQ (Mesosphere)
2020 — 2023
Solutions Architect

Cloud-native architecture lead across multiple DoD programs. Designed fast-data pipeline systems using CQRS to replace major ingestion bottlenecks enabling proactive operating models at scale. CNCF-certified Kubernetes training partner, delivering CKA/CKS/CKAD/KCNA preparation and DKP product training.

KubernetesCloud NativeCNCFKafkaFast DataDoD
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
2020
Senior Software / DevSecOps Engineer

Designed the DevSecOps roadmap and template pipelines aligned with the DoD Platform One initiative. Member of the founding Platform One IronBank IT-Ops team. Built OCI image replication tooling with KeyCloak SSO integration and automated GitLab account provisioning.

DevSecOpsPlatform OneIronBankGitOpsTerraformAnsible
Ball Aerospace
2017 — 2019
Software Engineer

Developed DevOps and Platform Engineering capabilities for DARPA space situational awareness programs. Pioneered K3s on embedded systems for air-gapped government hyperscaler deployments. Built satellite constellation simulation using CesiumJS and Python microservices on OpenShift.

KubernetesEmbeddedPythonC++OpenShiftSpace Systems
Hobart / Illinois Tool Works
2015 — 2017
Software Engineer

Embedded application development and QA automation. Consolidated three separate testing frameworks into a unified cross-platform test base covering Linux and Windows targets, cutting production QA time by 50%.

C++PythonEmbeddedQA Automation

TS/SCI (CI Poly)