MY BACKGROUND

In my past life I studied the intricate systems that power our human selves and which the understanding of has powered modern medicine. I've had an urge to understand the mind from a young age which led to my decision to study Neuroscience in my undergraduate time at UT. Life has come full circle and I now find my daily hunger to understand and employ the cutting-edge in Artificially Intelligent tooling to be ever-growing. My current curiosity-driven excursions cover the expanse of the fields of cybersecurity and AI+ML and all the interconnected meadows that lie in between. Over the last 6+ years, I've plunged into programming pragmatism and the foundations of modern day computing, building distributed systems that reliably serve petabytes daily—AKA Pushin' P.

In my free time you can find me cleaning up cat pee. And herding my toddler sons on adventures with my wife. And in the sparest of times, pursuing my passion on the Felt.

EDUCATION

2009-2013 Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience

University of Texas at Austin

2015-2017 Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Georgia

2017-2019 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine - Withdrawn

Rocky Vista University - College of Osteopathic Medicine

Early 2019 Fullstack Web Development

Hack Reactor - Software Engineering Immersive

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019-Dec 2022 Cloud Platform Architect; Software Engineer ‐ Cloud & Backend
IBM

Led architecture and engineering initiatives that drove significant improvements in cloud-native infrastructure and developer productivity. Authored gitops-driven best practices for ibm mq on kubernetes, slashing client deployment timelines from days to hours, and spearheaded development of hybrid-cloud Internal Dev Platforms and self-service developer portals, accelerating infrastructure provisioning by up to 5x and doubling release velocity across multiple engineering teams.

January 2023-January 2024 Senior Platform Engineer
Raytheon Technologies

Senior platform role specializing in automating multi-cluster kubernetes provisioning and security compliance tooling in FedRAMP-high environments, significantly reducing deployment time and operational overhead via custom go-based cli tools, infrastructure-as-code, and robust cicd-integrated security guardrails.

March 2024-January 2025 Senior Site Reliability Engineer
T-Mobile

Engineered a zero-trust kubernetes security system in go with gitops-driven rbac and compliance automation, capturing 95% of unauthorized access events across 200+ on-prem and eks clusters; optimized python-based etl pipelines with asyncio, reducing runtime by 10x and enabling real-time visibility into thousands of prod deployments.

January 2025-Present Senior Security Eng - FedRAMP SRE
IBM

Security and SRE specialist driving fedramp-high compliance in aws govcloud, automating vulnerability remediation workflows (90% toil reduction via lambda and ssm), and architecting petabyte-scale siem data lake solutions for secure multi-tenant observability.