Experience

Senior Software Engineer II — DevOps/FinOps · Aug 2024 – present

• Envoy Gateway migration — zero-downtime, per-tenant cutover from NGINX Ingress across EKS and AKS fleets
• Rebrand infrastructure — moved 6,000+ application instances to a new domain on a tight deadline
• ARM migration — 15% price/performance improvement on core workloads
• FinOps CI checks — GitHub Actions gate that flags costly resource-request changes in Helm PRs
• Least-privilege hardening — scoped service accounts across 20+ Kubernetes clusters
• Budget modeling — bottoms-up AWS budget; APAC and FedRAMP expansion cost models
• Tagging strategy — 99% AWS / 95% Azure cost allocation

Senior Software Engineer I — DevOps/FinOps · Jul 2023 – Aug 2024

• Self-hosted CI runners — moved the test suite to Kubernetes runners, cutting cost and runtime
• Cluster migration — 4,000+ instances across 20+ EKS clusters onto new v2 clusters
• Account separation — dedicated AWS accounts for QA, demo, support, and trial environments
• EDP renewal — validated rates against projected spend for AWS contract negotiations
• Cost visibility — weekly cloud-spend office hours; cost tooling rolled out org-wide

Site Reliability Engineer — FinOps · Mar 2022 – Jul 2023

• 30% spend reduction — savings plans, reservations, rightsizing, deprecating unused resources
• Binlog-to-BigQuery pipeline — Datastream/Dataflow/Pub-Sub streaming, packaged as a Terraform module
• Multi-cloud spend dashboard — BigQuery + Athena + Data Studio; org-wide tagging policy
• SRE work — Terraform IaC, internal Kubernetes operator, on-call rotation

IT Business Analyst — Cloud Platform Governance · Feb 2021 – Mar 2022

• $35k+/month saved — EBS modernization, unused-asset cleanup, RDS reservations
• Led 3 interns — optimizations worth a further 10% of the org's AWS spend
• Reservation tracking — commitment-usage views in the internal spend dashboard