Columbus, OH · Open to opportunities

Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Lead

10+ years building the infrastructure others build on — Internal Developer Platforms, multi-account AWS environments, and GitOps pipelines at enterprise scale. Currently at IGT, leading cloud infrastructure across dev teams. Hands-on with AI-driven operations tooling using LangGraph and AWS Bedrock — agentic workflows for autonomous Kubernetes diagnostics and intelligent remediation.

10+
Years experience
40%
Deployment time cut
15%
AWS cost reduction
3
Cloud certifications
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Experience
Software Engineer IV — DevOps / Platform Engineering Current 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.
  • Architected and developed an autonomous AI-driven CLI tool for Kubernetes diagnostics deployed on bastion hosts across multiple Amazon EKS lab environments, enabling rapid cluster issue detection and resolution.
  • Engineered agentic workflows using LangGraph, integrating AWS Bedrock and AWS Lambda to perform intelligent root-cause analysis and automate remediation guidance.
  • Built a multi-stage diagnostics pipeline for pod discovery, context enrichment, dependency analysis, AI-assisted troubleshooting, interactive fix recommendations, and memory persistence.
  • Integrated the tool into GitHub Actions provisioning workflows to support automated deployment, seamless upgrades, and zero-downtime in-place updates across all lab environments.
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 · 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 · 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.
  • Automated operational processes and AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and AWS Lambda.
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
AWSGCPEKS LambdaEC2S3 RDSVPCGlueStep Functions
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesDockerIstio HelmRancherArgoCDKarpenter
IaC & CI/CD
TerraformCloudFormationAnsible GitHub ActionsJenkinsCodePipelinePython
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaDatadog New RelicSplunkCloudWatchEFK Stack
AI & Agentic Ops
AWS Bedrock LangGraph Agentic Workflows AI-Ops Autonomous Diagnostics
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS
GCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP
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