Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience architecting cloud systems, databases, pipelines, and software components. I focus on making systems reliable, deployable, and easy to operate.
I take requirements and turn them into processes, software, and automation. Most of my work lives at the intersection of software engineering and cloud operations — building the platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that engineering teams depend on. Python, AWS, and making complex systems simpler.
Languages: Python, Perl, Bash, SQL, HCL Cloud: AWS (primary), with exposure to GCP and Azure Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana Other: Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, API design
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Security – Specialty
- GitLab
- Nighthawk OSS — experimental and open-source projects
- PyPI — published Python packages
- CPAN — published Perl modules
- Firefox Add-ons — browser extensions
- VS Code Marketplace — Nighthawk Blame extension
- GitHub