20+ Years Building at Scale

Strategic infrastructure leadership focused on multi-region architecture, networking optimization, and organizational change management. Collaborated directly with the Chief Architect and Engineering Leadership on Pinterest's infrastructure strategy.

• ● Served as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Pinterest's Multi-Region and Multi-Account initiatives, collaborating directly with the Chief Architect and Engineering Leadership.
• ● Architected Pinterest's Next-Gen Network Architecture, enhancing infrastructure stability by combining centralized connectivity with distributed control mechanisms.
• ● Conducted comprehensive analysis on AZ balances and data transfer costs, transitioning from Transit Gateway to direct VPC peering, reducing annual networking costs from $10 million to $0.
• ● Successfully advocated for organizational adoption of a Multi-Account architecture, influencing Pinterest's long-term infrastructure strategy.
• ● Supported major Data Engineering initiatives, including Spark on EKS, facilitating transition to a robust Multi-Account environment.
• ● Founded and built the Pinterest Cloud Architecture team, defining core pillars, team charter, and strategic roadmaps.
• ● Built DR tooling at a fraction of vendor cost; achieved order-of-magnitude improvement in recovery time.
• ● Led EC2 provisioning at hyperscale—large-scale compute infrastructure and petabytes of storage.
• ● Established Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and Terraform CI/CD pipelines, enhancing operational safety, consistency, and reducing deployment failures.
• ● Directly mentored 12–14 engineers, significantly contributing to professional growth and retention.
• ● Provided indirect mentorship across Security, Infrastructure Provisioning, and SRE teams.
• ● Led cross-team educational workshops increasing internal engineering capability in cloud networking and IaC.

Progressed from SRE to Technical Lead, driving infrastructure automation, application migrations, and reliability improvements for the Data Platform.

• ● Improved system reliability, increasing overall uptime by 15%.
• ● Developed real-time clickstream analytics pipeline using AWS Kinesis, Lambda, and Athena.
• ● Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, improving operational efficiency.
• ● Migrated applications to AWS ECS from standalone EC2 instances, reducing operational costs by 20%.
• ● Designed zero-downtime AMI image deployment process across AWS ECS Clusters.
• ● Contributed to development and maintenance of automation tools for AWS cloud infrastructure management.
• ● Created and maintained documentation of systems and processes for existing and new systems.
• ● Configured and maintained AWS Cloud Computing environments using Terraform.

Architected cloud-native deployment strategies and accelerated release cycles for Oracle’s SaaS migration.

• ● Developed and implemented CI/CD development pipelines across major products of Oracle's Service Cloud division.
• ● Architected and deployed a GitOps-based container deployment system for cloud-native systems.
• ● Led Kubernetes cluster deployments through security review process.
• ● Authored numerous Terraform modules used to deploy infrastructure across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions.
• ● Created a framework for deploying on-demand microservices with HashiCorp Nomad and Consul Service Discovery.
• ● Implemented Docker-based Jenkins workers executed by Nomad scheduling.
• ● Provided training for development teams on Consul, Nomad deployment, and Vault secret management for Java applications.
• ● Implemented zero-downtime, adaptive HA-Proxy load balancing layer using consul-templates.

Streamlined automation and deployment processes through the adoption of Ansible.

• ● Lead Engineer on data centers hardware ingestion, including CMDB, datacenter provision, automation, and OS bootstrapping projects.
• ● Developed Docker-based provisioning solution to support microservices deployments with Jenkins and Ansible.
• ● Provided leadership in the adoption of Ansible configuration management across the organization.
• ● Developed and implemented process integrating Ansible with pre-existing CI/CD tooling into Jenkins.
• ● Responsible for performance, availability, and automation tooling of load balancing across four geographically dispersed datacenters.
• ● Trained and mentored operations engineering and developers in new build and deployment of infrastructure and tooling.
• ● Mentored fellow system engineers to become subject matter experts in process automation, load balancing, and configuration management.

Led virtualization and storage initiatives, managing large-scale storage solutions.

• ● Lead System Administrator for automation, storage virtualization, and virtualization initiatives.
• ● Acted as liaison between operations and development for production application deployments.
• ● Modernized deployment process by implementing Puppet and Foreman into the CI chain.
• ● Designed and implemented 600TB+ NetApp storage virtualization to support global platform.
• ● Implemented Cisco Nexus-based storage networking providing 60Gbps per storage array.
• ● Responsible for performance and availability of large, geographically dispersed web farms and application servers.
• ● Supported telephony applications service discovery systems over IGMPv2 multicast network.
• ● Received LiveOps Amsterdam Datacenter Creation Award.

Directed network infrastructure and virtualization engineering for IPTV services.

• ● Directed network infrastructure upgrades for IPTV services, improving streaming performance and stability.
• ● Engineered KVM-based virtualization solutions, reducing infrastructure costs.
• ● Managed multi-vendor network solutions (Juniper, Cisco, Extreme, Dell).
• ● Upgraded network infrastructure to support IGMPv3 for PIM-SSM, improving network performance.
• ● Completed a data center migration and redesign, aligning with business objectives.

Led infrastructure initiatives across 92+ medical care centers, managing IBM systems, virtualization, and enterprise networking.

• ● Procured, planned, installed, and maintained IBM Power Systems and BladeCenters
• ● Expanded virtual infrastructure with vSphere 4.0/ESX 3.5 and migrated to Linux KVM on Scientific Linux
• ● Designed and deployed distributed 802.11N wireless mesh infrastructure across 92+ medical care centers
• ● Implemented two clusters of Linux KVM HA with Gluster and DRBD/Linux-HA fault tolerance
• ● Managed SAN and NAS environments (iSCSI, NFS, CIFS) with NetApp storage capacity planning
• ● Created semi-automated wireless surveying process to increase success of WiFi mesh deployments
• ● Technical lead for all data center maintenance, upgrades, rack layout, and power distribution

Coordinated system development tasks for AIX and Windows environments with focus on disaster recovery and compliance.

• ● Developed disaster recovery process for AIX Database LPARs and application servers
• ● Implemented version control and test framework for ksh and bash scripts
• ● Successfully tested SOX Compliance for UNIX operating system controls
• ● Assisted development teams in fixing SOX-related vulnerabilities to auditor satisfaction
• ● Maintained PCI Level-1 compliant environment
• ● Provided escalation support for AIX, Cisco, and Windows incidents

Technical support lead implementing physician practice management systems across medical facilities in the northeastern corridor.

• ● Implemented physician practice management systems across medical facilities in the northeastern corridor
• ● Technical support lead in the Philadelphia area supporting over 50 medical facilities
• ● Provided support for AIX, SCO UNIX OpenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, and Windows Server 2000/2003
• ● Connected branch medical offices using VPN, Frame Relay, PPP, and Leased Lines with Cisco and SonicWall routers
• ● Managed Active Directory installations at medical facilities
• ● Trained on HIPAA and PCI compliance for operating system controls and auditing