Engineering Showcase
A comprehensive catalog of the technical solutions, automation, and infrastructure I have architected throughout my career.
Cloud Architecture & DevOps
KUBERNETES • CI/CD • HYBRID CLOUD
- Enterprise Kubernetes (RKE2): Architected production clusters utilizing Cloudflare tunnels, Istio Service Mesh, and Traefik ingress for secure application delivery.
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Designed Azure DevOps pipelines using Helm charts and Ansible, standardizing deployments for 10+ projects.
- Infrastructure as Code: Utilized Ansible playbooks to automate server provisioning and eliminate configuration drift.
- High-Availability Virtualization: Engineered 3-node and 5-node Hyper-V clusters across multiple data centers to ensure business continuity.
- Full-Stack Tooling: Developed "Netbox" (Django/Python) to serve as a programmable "Source of Truth" for asset management and IPAM.
- Observability Stack: Deployed ELK Stack, Grafana, and Prometheus to visualize real-time application latency and system health.
- Performance Caching: Optimized application layers by migrating from Valkey to Redis Cache Manager.
Automation & Scripting
PYTHON • POWERSHELL • ANSIBLE
- Security Response (Log4j): Wrote and deployed a custom PowerShell script to detect vulnerabilities across all client endpoints immediately during zero-day events.
- Identity Audits: Automated the detection of rogue service accounts and users missing MFA using PowerShell, significantly reducing attack surfaces.
- Automated Reporting: Built Python (Pandas) pipelines to extract raw data from MariaDB/Zabbix, automating ISO 9000/9001 compliance reports.
- Migration Automation: Scripted the migration of 30+ servers from CentOS to Ubuntu using Ansible, reducing manual effort by 40%.
- Ticket Remediation: Developed Bash and PowerShell suites to auto-resolve routine support tickets (log rotation, patching), cutting response times by 30%.
Infrastructure & Networking
STORAGE • SECURITY • VIRTUALIZATION
- Petabyte-Scale Storage: Managed 4PB of data on TrueNAS/ZFS systems, ensuring integrity for business intelligence teams.
- SAN Engineering: Built dual Dell PowerVault ME5212 SANs from the ground up, configuring block-level replication for 40TB of critical data.
- Global Networking: Configured secure VPN tunnels and Hub-and-Spoke networks using Meraki and Fortigate for 20+ international sites.
- Secure Monitoring: Deployed Zabbix monitoring environments secured with PKI authentication across diverse client networks.
- Legacy Modernization: Managed 5-node VMware clusters with redundant Rockstor (SUSE) storage backends.
- Disaster Recovery: Implemented robust Veeam Backup strategies to ensure rapid recovery times for enterprise workloads.