Experience

Strategic infrastructure leadership focused on multi-region architecture, networking optimization, and organizational change management.

• ● Architected Pinterest’s Next Generation Network Architecture, enabling scalable, secure, multi-platform environments.
• ● Eliminated $10M in annual AWS transit gateway and cross-VPC data transfer costs by transitioning from Transit Gateway to direct VPC peering.
• ● Served as DRI for Multi-Region and Multi-Account initiatives, collaborating with Chief Architect and Engineering Leadership.
• ● Founded and built the Cloud Architecture team, defining its charter, pillars, and roadmap.
• ● Established IaC standards and Terraform CI/CD pipelines to enhance operational safety and reduce deployment failures.
• ● Mentored 12–14 engineers directly and provided cross-functional guidance to Security and SRE teams.

Led reliability engineering for the Data Platform, focusing on uptime improvement and analytics pipeline development.

• ● Improved system reliability, increasing overall uptime by 15%.
• ● Developed real-time clickstream analytics pipeline using AWS Kinesis, Lambda, and Athena.
• ● Supported major Data Engineering initiatives to facilitate robust multi-account environments.

Focused on infrastructure automation and application migration to containerized environments.

• ● Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, significantly improving operational efficiency.
• ● Migrated legacy applications to AWS ECS, reducing operational costs by 20%.

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

• ● Developed CI/CD platforms, accelerating Oracle’s release cycles by 40%.
• ● Architected GitOps-based container deployments and Kubernetes clusters.
• ● Laid foundational strategy for Oracle’s migration to cloud-native SaaS.

Streamlined automation and deployment processes through the adoption of Ansible.

• ● Led adoption of Ansible, significantly streamlining automation and deployment.
• ● Integrated Ansible with existing CI/CD tools, increasing operational efficiency.

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

• ● Led automation, virtualization, and storage initiatives; implemented Puppet and Foreman.
• ● Designed and managed 600TB+ NetApp storage virtualization solutions.
• ● Received LiveOps Amsterdam Datacenter Creation Award.

Directed network infrastructure and virtualization engineering for IPTV services.

• ● Directed network infrastructure upgrades for IPTV services, significantly improving streaming performance and stability.
• ● Engineered KVM-based virtualization solutions, reducing infrastructure costs.
• ● Managed multi-vendor network solutions (Juniper, Cisco, Extreme, Dell).