I currently serve in the role of Principal SRE for a B2B focused SaaS platform, NuORDER by Lightspeed. Previously I’ve worked at Blue Acorn iCi and Classy Llama in various engineering and leadership roles with a focus on software, systems integration, infrastructure and devops projects for clients in the Magento Commerce B2C and B2B online retail space.

Infrastructure as code, immutable design patterns, automation and highly-available system architecture are passions of mine, having experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Packer, AWS, Google Cloud and Kubernetes as well as highly-available dedicated bare-metal clusters.

On the personal side, I enjoy exploring just about any form of new technology, occasionally building something just for the sake of the challenge, and learning anything related to building automated systems and devops. When time allows for it, I am often found contributing to open-source software. Things I love include spending time with my family, involving myself in the tech conference scene, exploring the great outdoors, hiking, cycling, and running.

The direction of my professional career began taking shape at the age of 11 when I started learning the C/C++ languages, using them to develop a handful of desktop software applications, an experience which ultimately got me hooked on tech. Following the completion of high school, my efforts shifted towards web focused technologies in the online retail space, eventually taking on a strong infrastructure and devops engineering focus circa 2015.

My expertise with software languages is centered largely around PHP, C/C++, Rust, Go, NodeJS, Ruby, Java, Python, and Bash with varying levels of proficiency.

If you want to check out what keeps me busy in the open source world, take a look at my GitHub or follow me on Twitter.