Launched a computer systems design consultancy, establishing all legal, operational, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) frameworks to ensure 100% regulatory adherence from inception.

• Secured an average of 15% cost savings on initial operational expenditures by leading complex vendor negotiations for essential software and services.
• Reduced administrative overhead by 20% and accelerated content creation by 30% through the formulation of standardized client onboarding processes and the strategic use of AI-assisted documentation tools.

Architected and integrated secure automation solutions that streamlined critical processes, accelerating the delivery of validated software features to stakeholders by 35% using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

• Boosted developer productivity on repetitive coding tasks by 30% by championing the adoption of AI-powered code generation tools, fostering an environment of rapid prototyping.
• Improved average server response times by over 20% across the Linux fleet through proactive performance tuning, kernel optimization, and continuous security hardening.

Fortified multi-account AWS infrastructure by remediating hundreds of vulnerabilities identified by Orca Security, slashing high-priority security risks by 60% and elevating the overall cloud compliance posture.

• Reduced Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to critical network security incidents by over 50% by operationalizing automated response actions for AlienVault SIEM and CloneGuard IPS appliances.
• Cut critical vulnerability exposure time by 40% for the EC2 fleet by deploying custom AWS Systems Manager (SSM) automation documents for streamlined patching, validation, and compliance reporting.
• Ensured critical WAF rulesets were deployed within 1 hour of new threat intelligence availability by automating CloudFormation deployments for WAF updates within the DevSecOps pipeline.

Authored sophisticated Terraform (IaC) modules that reduced cloud misconfiguration incidents related to security groups and IAM policies by over 80%, enforcing secure-by-design principles.

• Engineered a compliance automation framework using MCollective that maintained a 98%+ continuous adherence to CIS security benchmarks across the server infrastructure.
• Eliminated risks of multi-million-dollar discrepancies and ensured 100% accuracy in transaction reporting by re-engineering EFT bank file generation processes with automated validation mechanisms.
• Governed the secure lifecycle of a large-scale Linux and Windows environment, reducing critical security patching windows by 30% through advanced automation with Octopus Deploy and MCollective.

Architected and launched a fully automated IaC deployment system (Ruby, AWS APIs) that slashed environment provisioning time from over 4 hours to under 15 minutes (>90% reduction).

• Doubled application processing capacity and enhanced system scalability by reverse-engineering and refactoring a monolithic Bash deployment script into modular, service-specific automation.

Achieved 100% deployment uptime (zero-downtime rollouts) for FDA and HIPAA-compliant production services by designing and operationalizing a sophisticated A/B deployment framework using SaltStack and Python.

• Slashed 3D medical image processing times by over 70% by leading the technical evaluation and adoption of a GPU-accelerated cloud compute solution, significantly accelerating diagnostic turnaround.

Reduced environment provisioning times for a Big Data Analytics platform from multiple days to under 3 hours (>85% improvement) by designing a scalable infrastructure framework using CloudFormation and Chef.

• Improved average application response times by a sustained 30%+ by diagnosing and resolving critical performance bottlenecks in production Linux ecosystems.
• Engineered a highly available GlusterFS distributed storage solution that achieved 100% data redundancy across geo-distributed sites for critical datasets.

Championed Tier 3+ infrastructure support for a >4000-user R&D division, maintaining 99.8% availability for critical engineering services and minimizing disruptions to product development cycles.

• Re-architected XSAN storage infrastructure, improving utilization by 30% for 50TB of critical CDN logs and deferring significant near-term expansion costs.
• Slashed build environment inconsistencies by over 95% by devising a custom Gentoo Portage overlay to establish version-controlled, reproducible environments for mission-critical hardware engineering toolchains.

Orchestrated and executed a zero-downtime migration of the mission-critical Jenkins CI/CD build infrastructure during the Netflix-to-Qwikster transition, ensuring 100% continuity of software delivery pipelines.

• Automated bare-metal (Kickstart) and virtual (CloudStack) server provisioning, reducing manual system setup time by over 60% and establishing standardized, secure build processes.