Consulting
Cloud & SRE
20+ years building and operating infrastructure at Amazon, AWS, Uber, Twitter, and Meta. I help startups build reliable systems without over-engineering.
Currently a founding engineer at Tensor9, building multi-cloud deployment infrastructure for air-gapped and on-premises environments.
What I Do
Cloud Architecture Review
Audit your AWS, GCP, or Azure setup. Identify cost optimization opportunities, security gaps, and reliability risks. Concrete recommendations, not generic best practices.
Infrastructure Design
Design infrastructure that scales with your business. Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda - whatever fits your team and workload. Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK depending on your stack.
Reliability Engineering
SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call rotations. Build reliability practices that work for a 10-person team, not a 10,000-person company.
Migration & Modernization
Move from Heroku to AWS. Containerize legacy apps. Adopt Kubernetes without the complexity. Incremental migrations that don't break production.
Team Enablement
Level up your engineering team on cloud and infrastructure. Code reviews, pairing sessions, architecture discussions. Build internal capability, not dependency.
Experience
Amazon / AWS
6 years + 2 years
First external S3 ops hire. Managed global infrastructure across continents. Pioneered ops for Echo/Alexa. Developed foundational Python code still in use a decade later.
Uber
1 year - Pre-IPO
Founded and led Seattle's first Site Reliability Engineering team. Team lead for Foundations during critical growth phase.
2 years - Pre-IPO
Led M&A SRE, migrating acquisitions from AWS to Twitter infrastructure. Managed Tier-0 services (ZooKeeper, Scribe).
Meta
3 years
Production Engineer. Owned and optimized Warm Storage infrastructure. Debugged the hardest problems on some of the largest systems in the world.
Tensor9
Current
Founding engineer. Building Any-Prem platform for multi-cloud, air-gapped, and on-premises deployment.
Let's Talk
30-minute intro call to discuss your infrastructure challenges.
Platforms
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- On-premises / Air-gapped
Technologies
- Kubernetes / EKS / GKE
- Terraform / Pulumi
- Docker / Containers
- PostgreSQL / Redis
- Go / Python
Engagement Models
- Architecture review (one-time)
- Project-based consulting
- Fractional SRE (ongoing)
Location
Seattle, WA
Remote-friendly