Skills

C/C++, Golang, Java, JavaScript, Python
Kubernetes cluster management and deployment
CI/CD pipeline development and tuning
Argo Project ecosystem
AWS/Azure/Google Cloud ecosystems
20+ years of software development experience

Experience

Principal Engineer at Samsung SDS America from 12/2024 to 1/2026

Observabilty platform development and deployment, developer tooling.

Multi-cluster observability for metrics, logs and traces with OpenTelemetry.
Metric, trace and log correlation.
Multi-cloud self-hosted and SaaS deployment with Terragrunt, Github Actions, ArgoCD.
Automated environment promotion with Argo Gitops Promoter.
Ephemeral cloud developer environments.
ClickHouse TimeSeries integration with Grafana Prometheus datasources.
AuthN/AuthZ via Keycloak.
OpenTelemetry collector management with OpAMP.

_{^{With: Kubernetes/EKS, OpenTelemetry, ArgoCD, Terraform/Terragrunt, Helm/Helmfile, ClickHouse, CUE, Golang}}

DevOps Lead at Graft from 4/2023 to 12/2024

CI/CD, EKS-based infrastructure, automation, observability, SOC2 compliance.

EKS-based infrastructure for a customer-facing AI organization intelligence platform.
Infrastructure observability with OpenTelemetry.
On-demand intelligent environment scaling with Kaprenter.
Ephemeral local and cloud developer environments.
Automated cloud cost reporting.
Security and business process auditing automation for SOC2 compliance.
Custom Kubernetes operator for demand-based Dask worker scaling.
PyTest suite parallelization.
Large container image streaming with SOCI indexing.

_{^{With: Kubernetes/EKS, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Helm/Helmfile, Karpenter, Dask, Postgres, Milvus}}

Principal Engineer at Samsung SDS America from 2/2021 to 4/2023

Architecture design, software defined storage, infrastucture-as-code.

Private cloud portal implementation with provisioning, user RBAC, inventory and multiple regions.
Golang gRPC micro-services.
REST API design and implementation for Ceph cluster provisioning.
Test and deployment pipeline design and implementation.
Automated bare-metal provisioning with MaaS API
Custom Kubernetes operators for Jenkins, metal provisioning and Ceph cluster creation.
Realtime cluster security monitoring with Falco/eBPF.

_{^{With: Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS, VueJS, Golang, Falco, Ceph, OpenAPI, Helm/Helmfile}}

Senior Engineer at Samsung SDS America from 3/2018 to 2/2021

CI/CD, open source work.
_{^{With: Kubernetes, Golang, GRPC, Helm/Helmfile, Jenkins, git}}

Engineer at Samsung SDS America from 5/2015 to 3/2018

CI/CD, open source work, Kubernetes deployment, cloud lift-and-shift consulting.
_{^{With: Kubernetes, Golang, GRPC, Helm/Helmfile, Jenkins, git}}

DevOps engineer at MTNSat from 7/2013 to 10/2014

CI/CD, automation, infrastucture-as-code.
_{^{With: Ruby, Chef, Jenkins, Ansible, gerrit/git}}

Android Apps Developer at MTNSat from 2/2013 to 7/2013

Android application development.
_{^{With: Java, Android, git/gerrit}}

Consultant at StarSightings from 10/2010 to 10/2013

Android application development.
_{^{With: Java, Android, git/gerrit}}

Software Design Engineer at Microsoft from 7/2012 to 2/2013

Automotive application development, sustained engineering.
_{^{With: C/C++, Flash}}

Co-Founder, Engineering at TravellingWave Inc from 5/2007 to 7/2012

TravellingWave developed multimodal interfaces (speech recognition and typing) for entering text into mobile devices.
SDK development, Windows Mobile application development, noise reduction algorithms, architecture design.
_{^{With: C/C++, Windows PocketPC, Windows Mobile}}

Software Design Engineer at Cisco from 7/2010 to 12/2011

iOS and Android application development, localization.
_{^{With: C/C++, Java, ObjectiveC}}

Software Design Engineer at Intrinsyc from 5/2006 to 5/2007

Intrinsyc built world’s first Microsoft Windows Embedded CE-based mobile handset platform, with integrated hardware, software and telephony elements.

Windows Mobile application development.
_{^{With: C/C++, Windows PocketPC, Windows Mobile}}

Software Design Engineer at Microsoft from 9/2005 to 5/2006

Test automation, Windows application development.
_{^{With: C/C++, Win32, MFC}}

Software Design Engineer at Conversay from 4/2001 to 9/2005

Windows and Windows Mobile application development, proof-of-concept design, localization.
_{^{With: C/C++, Win32, MFC, COM/DCOM, Windows PocketPC, Windows Mobile}}

Build Engineer at Conversay from 9/2000 to 4/2001

Conversay developed one of the first embedded speech recognition engines.

Configuration management, build, internal tools development.
_{^{With: C/C++, JScript, VBScript}}

Education

University of Washington (September 1998 – November 2001): Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (Applied Math, Statistics, Computer Science) program, incomplete.

Projects

gh-install (In progress) - Github client extension for installing Github repository releases
Jenkins operator (Deprecated) - Kubernetes operator for spinning up Jenkins instances
lbex (Deprecated) - Kubernetes cloud provider load balancer built on top of NGINX
CNCT shared workflow library (Deprecated) - Opinionated Jenkins shared workflow library for releasing Helm charts
Jabberwocky - In appreciation of “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
tsdb-proxy (Coming soon) - Prometheus Remote Read proxy for ClickHouse TimeSeries table engine.

Patents

US8571862B2 - Multimodal interface for input of text
US8645131B2 - Detecting segments of speech from an audio stream

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