Developed a cloud-like, API-driven solution for bare metal as a service leveraging Kubernetes reconcilers, and improving bare metal acquisition times from days to less than 5 minutes.
Developed a new solution to orchestrate automated maintenance and other day-2 operations for bare-metal machines. This enabled users to perform self-service operations across their fleet of machines, with no application downtime.
Designed a system to perform automated periodic firmware upgrades across the entire bare-metal platform with 0 downtime to the users.
Integrated the bare-metal ecosystem capacity management demand and supply workflows with upstream budgeting systems and users, cutting admins as operational bottlenecks.
Technology Vice President
Goldman Sachs
12.2020 - 02.2023
Co-tech lead of the GS Kubernetes platform. Responsibilities include driving the platform's direction and strategy, as well as managing people.
Main architect of the Kubernetes public cloud strategy for the next-generation k8s clusters.
Pioneered automated provisioning of OpenShift clusters as the next-generation Kubernetes platform for the GS internal cloud.
Focused on the migration of existing in-house-grown Kubernetes solutions to newer OpenShift clusters.
Technology Associate
Goldman Sachs
12.2018 - 12.2020
Managed the global multi-clustered kubernetes environment creating new controllers and automation to interact with the firm's ecosystem
Managed the DNS integration with GS's in-house DNS solution to provide external connectivity to clients for apps living inside our k8s clusters
Helped create the monitoring stack for the k8s platform based on Prometheus & Grafana to provide customer-driven SLO and SLI and overall alerting for the platform
Created a policy-driven kubernetes environment using Open Policy Agent to create namespaced-based resources automatically
Policy pushes and resource creation went from days to minutes
Co-managed the new Saltstack-based configuration management system for the firm
The purpose was to ensure correct integration with the GS ecosystem
Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
02.2016 - 12.2018
Developed the k8s platform as the firm's next-generation compute provisioning solution
In charge of the integration between the internal cloud controller and the saltstack based configuration management system using Vert.x based Groovy applications
Helped to develop the Linux update management platform to provide continuous Linux patching at scale on a monthly basis
Managed the Elasticsearch cluster for the team used for multiple reporting jobs
Student Employee
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
12.2014 - 05.2015
Design AWS, and OpenStack drivers in Java for MAX's VersaStack network operating system
Education
MS - Telecommunications
University Of Maryland
College Park, MD
05.2016
BS - Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering
University Of The District Of Columbia
Washington, D.C
05.2014
Skills
Python
Golang
Java
Groovy
Openshift
Kubernetes
Open Policy Agent
Kube-mgmt
Prometheus
Grafana
Alertmanager
Postgres
Envoy Gatway
Envoy Proxy
Vertx
Spring Boot
MongoDB
ElasticSearch
Kibana
AWS
Linux
Redhat
Ubuntu
OTEL telemery
Certification
Cisco CCNET certified, 08/14
Presentations
Kubernetes Policy Enforcement Using OPA At Goldman Sachs, Kubecon Americas 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYHr_UaHsYQ
Timeline
Senior Engineer
Bloomberg
04.2023 - Current
Technology Vice President
Goldman Sachs
12.2020 - 02.2023
Technology Associate
Goldman Sachs
12.2018 - 12.2020
Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
02.2016 - 12.2018
Student Employee
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
12.2014 - 05.2015
MS - Telecommunications
University Of Maryland
BS - Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering