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Platform & DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of IT experience and 3+ years of specialized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) mastery in hybrid cloud environments (AWS & Azure). Currently serving as a designated Technical Approver for enterprise-wide Terraform pipelines, acting as 1 of only 4 individual contributors authorized to gate production Azure infrastructure for a 2,000-employee organization. Proven track record of architecting secure CI/CD standards, implementing high-ROI FinOps observability, and modernizing legacy systems.

• Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm

• Cloud Platforms

  • AWS (MWAA, EKS, EC2, SSM), Azure (AVD, DevOps, Entra ID), Hybrid Cloud Networking

• CI/CD & Observability

  • Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Datadog, JFrog Artifactory

• Languages

  • Python, PowerShell, Bash, HCL, SQL, C#, Java, C, C++

• 2025 – Present

  Platform Engineer

  Berkadia Commercial Mortgage

  • Enterprise Governance: Appointed as an Infrastructure Technical Approver for AWS and Azure Terraform repositories. Serve as 1 of 4 non-management engineers authorized to validate production Azure changes, enforcing security compliance and architectural standards for a 2,000-person organization.
  • Security Architecture: Architected a secure artifact migration strategy, intercepting a critical vulnerability where auth tokens were exposed in Docker layers. Re-engineered global pipeline templates to utilize BuildKit secret mounts, standardizing secure build processes for all engineering value streams.
  • FinOps & Observability: Engineered end-to-end Datadog observability for AWS MWAA (Airflow), delivering job-level cost analysis for EMR Spark clusters. Automated right-sizing recommendations that identified significant monthly cloud spend reductions.
  • IaC Standardization: Developed and governed centralized Terraform modules to standardize resource provisioning across the enterprise, reducing code duplication and enforcing secure configurations.
  • DevEx & Automation: Optimized the "Inner Loop" for developers by implementing Azure DevOps pipelines and AWS SSM automations, achieving a 50% reduction in deployment times and shortening release cycles by 3 days.

• 2021 – 2025

  Systems Engineer, Desktop

  Berkadia Commercial Mortgage

  • Cloud Virtualization (AVD): Selected to drive EUC cloud modernization due to Azure/IaC proficiency. Co-engineered and deployed Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) infrastructure using Terraform, migrating from legacy RDS to a version controlled Terraform architecture. Reduced server footprint by 70% and login times by 90%.
  • Device Management Architecture: Re-architected Jamf Cloud and Microsoft Intune management systems for 1,100+ endpoints. Implemented a zero-touch deployment workflow that reduced provisioning time by 20 minutes per device.
  • Operational Excellence: Authored 30+ pages of technical documentation to standardize support processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in Service Desk escalations.

• 2019 – 2021

  Helpdesk Engineer

  Berkadia Commercial Mortgage

  • Automated account creations and terminations using PowerShell, reducing manual processing time by over 50%.

• 2024

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

  University of Utah

• AWS AI Practitioner (2025)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner (2023)