Senior DevOps &
Cloud Infrastructure Lead

10+ years automating mission-critical cloud deployments and building Internal Developer Platforms at enterprise scale. Currently at IGT, leading cloud infrastructure for development teams across multi-account AWS environments — Kubernetes, GitOps, and DevSecOps transformations. Reduced deployment times by 40% and AWS spend by 15% through FinOps-driven Terraform standardization.

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Experience
Software Engineer IV — DevOps Aug 2022 — Present
IGT — International Game Technology · Columbus, OH
  • Led cloud infrastructure team architecting scalable AWS solutions and establishing standardized practices across dev teams.
  • Spearheaded Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage and AWS Service Catalog — reduced environment provisioning from days to hours.
  • Implemented FinOps strategies via Terraform standardization, cutting monthly AWS spend by 15%.
  • Integrated automated security scanning into GitHub Actions pipelines for enterprise compliance.
  • Established continuous delivery patterns using ArgoCD for EKS clusters across multiple AWS accounts.
Senior DevOps Engineer Nov 2021 — Jul 2022
EXPRESS · Columbus, OH
  • Managed production Kubernetes environments using Rancher, streamlining microservices deployment.
  • Enhanced observability by implementing Istio service mesh and defining critical SLOs/SLIs.
  • Deployed scalable, resilient multi-region infrastructure for high-traffic e-commerce workloads.
DevOps Engineer Oct 2020 — Nov 2021
T-Mobile (United Software Group) · Reston, VA
  • Automated AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and Python-based Lambda functions for incident remediation.
  • Engineered complex ETL workflows using AWS Glue and Step Functions to process S3 data into Athena.
  • Maintained private Kubernetes environments and optimized cluster scaling for peak traffic loads.
AWS / Solutions Engineer Apr 2017 — Oct 2020
Nationwide Insurance (United Software Group) · Columbus, OH
  • Deployed containerized applications on Amazon EKS and managed lifecycle using Helm charts.
  • Developed reproducible IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation to eliminate environment drift.
  • Automated configuration management with Ansible, reducing manual touchpoints by 60%.
  • Developed Java API to interface with Amazon SQS for managing high-volume messaging services.
Cloud Engineer Aug 2016 — Mar 2017
Aita Consulting Services · New Jersey
  • Provided cloud infrastructure support and managed initial AWS environment configurations.
  • Assisted in migration of legacy workloads to cloud-native architectures.
Skills & Technologies
Cloud
AWS GCP EKS Lambda EC2 S3 RDS VPC Glue Step Functions
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes Docker Istio Helm Rancher ArgoCD Karpenter
IaC & CI/CD
Terraform CloudFormation Ansible GitHub Actions Jenkins CodePipeline Python
Observability
Prometheus Grafana Datadog New Relic Splunk CloudWatch EFK Stack
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS
GCP Professional Cloud Architect GCP
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) CNCF
Education
Master of Science, Information Technology
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor · TX
2016
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
JNTU, India
2014