Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience

Cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, and platform reliability for Boost Mobile digital systems. DISH Wireless LLC is part of EchoStar.com.

• Lead AWS infrastructure automation and reliability improvements for Boost Mobile customer-facing platforms across multi-region environments.
• Designed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 40+ microservices with automated testing, security scanning, quality gates, and blue-green release patterns.
• Managed EKS clusters, RDS multi-AZ databases, S3 static hosting, CloudFront distributions, VPC networking, and security group policies for production workloads.
• Integrated Snyk, SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP Dependency-Check, and Lighthouse CI into deployment workflows to improve security, code quality, and performance visibility.
• Implemented IAM least-privilege policies, AWS Secrets Manager rotation, KMS usage controls, SSO governance, and audit-ready infrastructure baselines.
• Built CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki dashboards for latency, errors, service health, and operational SLO tracking.
• Optimized GitLab runner and container workflows, reducing deployment time by 40% and improving image build performance for high-volume delivery.
• Led cost reviews and right-sizing efforts that identified $200K+ in annual savings through reserved capacity planning, Spot adoption, and resource cleanup.

Infrastructure automation, secure deployments, and production operations for enterprise digital platforms.

• Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Helm for EKS clusters, Lambda functions, serverless APIs, and supporting cloud services.
• Delivered secure microservice deployments on EKS using Docker, Helm charts, rollback strategies, and environment-specific configuration management.
• Integrated AEM with AWS services and Quantum Metric analytics while supporting privacy and PII compliance requirements.
• Managed IAM, KMS, SSO, and F5 load balancer integrations to support access governance, edge routing, and production traffic management.
• Created reusable Docker base images that reduced build time by 45% and deployment time by 30% across supported services.

• Supported IT modernization initiatives across state agencies with Agile delivery practices, project planning, and stakeholder reporting.
• Produced Gantt charts, sprint tracking, KPI reports, and operational documentation for digital workflow and cloud migration planning.
• Partnered with teams on scalability analysis, budget forecasting, and modernization roadmaps for public-sector systems.

• Implemented and supported Allscripts EHR workflows for U.S. healthcare providers with HIPAA-conscious documentation and production support.
• Developed PowerShell and Bash automation for deployment validation, log parsing, backup checks, and operational troubleshooting.
• Supported Azure infrastructure implementations using virtual machines, NSGs, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Improved deployment validation and incident triage workflows, reducing post-deployment issues by 25%.

Selected Projects & Research

• Secure CI/CD templates: GitLab pipeline patterns with Snyk, SonarQube, SBOM export, signed OCI artifacts, and deployment approval controls.
• AWS monitoring automation: Lambda, CloudWatch, and SNS workflows for EKS health checks, IAM anomaly alerts, and operational notifications.
• Edge infrastructure lab: Raspberry Pi 5 NAS, AdGuard, NextDNS, Samba, DNS-over-HTTPS, and home network telemetry.
• Published technical writing: DevSecOps pipeline security, AI agent governance, secure AI-to-AI communication, and DevSecMLOps frameworks.