I’ve spent the past several years building the infrastructure and tooling that engineering teams depend on, from Kubernetes platforms and Terraform/Terragrunt libraries to Ansible collections and the devcontainer environments that make all of it accessible. I’m passionate about containers, Kubernetes, IaC, Vim, TUIs, and open-source in general. I contributed the Helm values view to k9s (objectively the best Kubernetes dashboard, prove me wrong) and I’m a proud Terragrunt ambassador.
About
Experience
DevOps Architect
2025 – Present
Leidos
- Architecting hybrid cloud and on-prem solutions using AWS Outposts
- Leading legacy system modernization efforts, migrating workloads to containerized Kubernetes and ECS platforms
- Building Terraform/Terragrunt infrastructure and Ansible automation across hybrid environments
- Contributing to government proposal writing and cloud infrastructure cost modeling for contract bids
Software Engineer IV (Solution Architect)
2022 – 2025
Leidos
- Built entire libraries of Terraform/OpenTofu modules and Terragrunt units and stacks
- Built mature Ansible collections for pre-provisioning and post-provisioning tasks
- Built libraries of devcontainers for development teams
- Heavily involved in building complex performance testing scenarios scaling to millions of users
Software Engineer III (Technical Lead)
2019 – 2022
Leidos
- Led PaaS reference implementation development
- Pioneered container orchestration work with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and Skaffold
- Pioneered cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, and Rancher/Fleet
- Worked with Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, and Istio
- Built a custom CLI used by developers across the team
- Hosted live training sessions for PaaS adoption
Software Engineer I
2017 – 2019
Leidos
- Frontend development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Polymer, and React
- Backend development using Java and RxJava
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2016 – 2017
West Virginia University
- Taught computer engineering lab focused on x86 assembly language
- Held office hours and graded technical lab reports
Graduate Research Assistant
2015 – 2016
West Virginia University
- Worked with WVSP ICAC as a Java developer and database administrator
- Used AngularJS, Apache Tomcat, Apache NiFi, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, and Spring
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2014 – 2015
West Virginia University
- Operated biometric collection equipment
- Wrote automation scripts for collection processes
Education
MSc Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University · 2015 – 2017
BSc Computer Engineering
West Virginia University · 2010 – 2015