Professional Summary

Senior DevOps Architect with 8+ years of experience leading cloud migrations, infrastructure automation, and platform modernization. Proven track record of reducing operational costs by 70% ($6M annually) while improving system performance and reliability. Expert in AWS cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and leading cross-functional engineering teams. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.

Professional Experience

Netsmart Technologies

Senior DevOps Architect

Apr 2025 - Present
  • Lead DevOps strategy and cloud infrastructure for enterprise healthcare platform serving 300+ production environments
  • Manage and mentor team of 3-4 engineers while collaborating across 30+ engineers organization-wide
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives for platform reliability, security, and cost optimization

Netsmart Technologies

DevOps Architect

Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
  • Cloud Migration Leadership: Orchestrated private-to-public cloud (AWS) migration of 300+ production single-tenant environments, consolidating 1,500+ servers to a fleet of <400 while maintaining and improving SLAs
  • Cost Optimization: Achieved $6M annual OpEx reduction (70% cost decrease) through FinOps practices, infrastructure rightsizing, and cloud-native modernization
  • Reliability Improvement: Reduced incident count by 80% through improved monitoring, automation, and infrastructure design
  • Deployment Efficiency: Reduced client environment deployment time by 80% and build/deployment failures by 80% through IaC automation and CI/CD pipeline optimization
  • Performance Enhancement: Improved application performance by 20-30% for large clients during cloud migration while maintaining or reducing resource allocation and costs
  • Designed and implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation for multi-tenant AWS environments
  • Established observability stack using Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, CloudWatch Logs, and Grafana Alloy

Netsmart Technologies

Lead Platform Engineer

May 2022 - Mar 2023
  • Led platform engineering initiatives for cloud migration planning and execution
  • Designed and implemented containerization strategies for legacy applications
  • Established CI/CD best practices using TeamCity with automated testing and validation

Netsmart Technologies

Software Architect

Apr 2021 - May 2022
  • Led application design and development for engineering team covering core system areas
  • Coordinated cross-team collaboration between systems engineers, DBAs, software engineers, and executives
  • Architected modernization initiatives to improve system performance and end-user workflows
  • Developed load testing tooling and integrated performance testing into development processes
  • Established architectural patterns and best practices for application development

Netsmart Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
  • Spearheaded DevOps automation projects, streamlining processes for team leads, QA, and developers
  • Led migration from SVN to Git, automating development workflows using BitBucket APIs and Git libraries
  • Leveraged TeamCity for CI/CD pipelines with source control triggers and branch pattern automation
  • Developed internal tools for enhanced Jira reporting using Jira API for ticket information and team statistics
  • Created automated unit tests for server-side code and database procedures/triggers

Netsmart Technologies

Software Engineer

Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
  • Participated in full SDLC including daily scrum meetings and design sessions with developers, product management, and end users
  • Developed features across the stack using ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Integrated user feedback into interface design and application workflows

Freelance Software Development

Consulting Software Engineer

Jan 2017 - Present
  • Develop custom web applications using .NET Core, React (TypeScript/JavaScript), and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Build modern SPAs, PWAs, and offline-enabled Android applications using .NET MAUI
  • Create client-facing portals, internal management tools, and automated background jobs
  • Integrate with third-party APIs including QuickBooks Desktop & Online, ArcGIS, and custom enterprise applications
  • Deploy solutions to Azure App Service, Function Apps, and SQL Databases
  • Develop mobile applications using React Native and .NET MAUI with REST API integration (2 production apps deployed)

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, ECS, Batch, ECR) Terraform CloudFormation AWS CDK Docker Azure

DevOps & CI/CD

TeamCity Jenkins GitHub Actions Git (GitHub, BitBucket) CI/CD Pipelines Infrastructure as Code

Observability & Monitoring

Grafana OpenTelemetry Splunk CloudWatch Grafana Alloy

Development

C# / .NET Core ASP.NET React Vue.js TypeScript/JavaScript .NET MAUI React Native

Database

Microsoft SQL Server RDS Database Design Performance Tuning SQL Server on Linux Multi-region / Multi-AZ HA

Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Amazon Web Services

Education

Hofstra University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

May 2017

GPA: 3.78