Resume

Experience

• Migrated Peloton’s production services off a legacy 250-node Kubernetes monolith onto a fleet of reproducible 100+ node clusters, guiding development teams through load balancer setup and gradual traffic shifts
• Set the technical direction for Peloton’s multi-cluster Istio service mesh spanning hundreds of production services, with independent highly-available control planes, mTLS-secured intra-mesh traffic, and automatic cross-cluster failover enabling zero-downtime cluster rotations (documented in AWS blog)
• Owned capacity planning and pre-scaling for Turkey Burn 2025, sustaining 7.27 billion requests across the multi-cluster Istio mesh at a peak of 452,000 requests/second with zero downtime
• Authored Terraform modules and Helm charts for core cluster components, enabling a new production-grade cluster to be built via ArgoCD and serving live traffic in under 30 minutes
• Built a Kubernetes operator in Rust that automatically scopes Istio proxy configurations based on live traffic patterns, reducing sidecar memory consumption and xDS push latency across the production mesh
• Developed a global rate limiting service in Rust implementing Envoy’s RLS protocol with Redis-backed distributed state, automatically prioritizing traffic to protect critical services during degradation
• Partnered with the social team to feed their moderation signals into mesh-level rate limiting, blocking malicious users at the edge before they reach backend services
• Drove org-wide observability standardization with an end-to-end Istio access log pipeline and embeddable Datadog Powerpacks, adopted across development teams as default instrumentation and reducing support escalations by letting teams self-serve traffic debugging
• Established SLOs for Istio mesh traffic and control plane operations with multi-window burn rate alerting
• Led incident response and root cause analysis for multiple high-severity outages, including DNS resolution failures degrading home screen load times and gateway overload during traffic spikes, implementing fixes that prevented recurrence

• Minimized excessive infrastructure alert noise and wrote actionable playbooks for incident mitigation, enabling an on-call rotation
• Transitioned legacy Elasticsearch clusters for app log indexing to AWS OpenSearch
• Developed Terraform modules adding observability and SLA dashboards for products
• Standardized incident response and postmortem practices across the company, improving incident response time by 55%, from 42 to 19 minutes
• Developed Elixir-based chatbot automating paging and other incident practices
• Led observability interest group and presented research on emerging technologies such as OpenTelemetry

• Designed and developed cloud infrastructure enabling horizontal scaling and orchestration of regression tests using Ruby and RabbitMQ
• Supported 6 development teams in scaling tests, reducing feedback time on code changes by over 12 business hours and enabling bi-weekly releases to production
• Developed frameworks, design patterns, and production-like data generation libraries for building maintainable regression test code
• Led team responsible for testing, maintaining reliability, and managing releases of the MedWise web-based application suite
• Developed production monitoring tools, automated test suites, and GitLab continuous integration pipelines for MedWise using Ruby and Selenium
• Eliminated nearly all high-impact production regressions within 18 months of test suite development
• Responded to production incidents by analyzing logs and metrics, diagnosing root causes, and communicating workarounds and status to end users

Education

Skills

Languages:Rust, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, Bash
Infrastructure & Platform:Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform/HCL, Amazon Web Services, Istio, Envoy, gRPC/Protobuf, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Packer, ArgoCD, Nix/NixOS, GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchDB, Vercel
CI/CD & Observability:Git, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Datadog, OpenSearch, PagerDuty, OpenTelemetry

Projects

• Migrated the chapter’s digital presence off WordPress onto a new site built with Astro and hosted on Vercel, with ongoing maintenance as the webmaster
• Instrumented visit metrics using a self-hosted Umami instance for privacy-respecting analytics

Community & Awards

• Exercism, Erlang Track Mentor & Maintainer (Oct 2018 - Present): Mentored 150+ learners through 300+ code reviews on writing idiomatic Erlang. exercism.org
• Arch Linux Official Tester (2017 - 2020): Signed off on packages and reported bugs supporting Arch’s rolling-release model
• ACM, TCNJ Chapter - President (2015 - 2016), Vice President (2014 - 2015): Planned weekly meetings, ran CS department events, and organized the annual HackTCNJ hackathon
• SpawnFest Overall Winner (2019): Built a real-time NoSQL database service with an HTTP API backed by ETS in Elixir. github.com/spawnfest/exile
• SpawnFest Correctness Category Winner (2018): Developed an Elixir library for building data-processing pipelines backed by Redis Streams. github.com/spawnfest/brink