Available for hire

I build the systems your products depend on.

Backend architecture and DevOps engineering for startups/enterprises that can't afford to be slow, brittle, or down. 6+ years building systems that survive production.

6+
years in production
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selected work

Things I've shipped.

A few projects worth talking about. Each one solved a real problem with real constraints.

2025–Present

Industrial Process Analytics Platform

live

A polyglot microservices platform that schedules, executes, and monitors real-time analytics across industrial process equipment — now queryable by AI agents in plain language.

GoPythongRPCKubernetesTerraformNATS JetStreamTimescaleDBLLM Agents (MCP)
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2022–Present

Serverless Data Hub Platform

live

A fully serverless AWS data platform for a world-leading airline — 500+ Lambdas and hundreds of distributed Glue jobs processing millions of records a day.

AWS LambdaAWS GlueMSK (Kafka)SQSRDSAthenaOpenSearchPythonNode.js
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2021–Present

Internal Developer Portal

live

A cloud-native, low-code internal developer platform that lets engineering teams design, deploy, and own their services without wrestling with the underlying infrastructure.

KubernetesMulti-cloudCI/CDGitOpsLow-CodeMicroservicesDeveloper Experience
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2023

GitOps CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes

live

A fully automated, end-to-end GitOps pipeline that takes a microservices platform from commit to running on Kubernetes — with testing, security, and quality gates built into every step.

Azure DevOpsArgoCDGitOpsKubernetesAKSCI/CDDevSecOps
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2023

Azure Cloud Security Hardening

live

End-to-end security hardening of an Azure environment — management group hierarchy, policy-driven guardrails, and least-privilege RBAC built to Azure Landing Zone architecture.

AzureAzure PolicyRBACLanding ZoneManagement GroupsCloud Security
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2024

Kubernetes Security Hardening

live

Took an AKS platform with effectively zero security controls and hardened it end to end — cluster, network, service mesh, workload, and observability layers included.

KubernetesAKSLinkerdmTLSNetwork PoliciesPod SecurityRBAC
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tech stack

What I build with.

Hover a technology to see related tools. Everything here has been in production.

BACKEND
DEVOPS
DATABASES
ML / AI
FRONTEND

available for work

Let's build something that lasts.

I'm open to senior backend/DevOps roles at product-focused startups, and select freelance engagements for systems that need to be fast, reliable, and maintainable long after I'm gone.