Engineering manager with a decade of hands-on infrastructure experience
building and operating cloud-native platforms at scale. Focused on
organizational clarity, operational excellence, and scaling infrastructure
that lets engineering move fast without breaking things.
Experience
Iru
(formerly Kandji) — Miami, FL (remote)
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure · Dec 2024–Present
Lead Infrastructure Engineer · Jul 2021–Dec 2024
- Led the infrastructure team through multiple major company reorganizations, maintaining operational continuity and team stability during periods of significant change.
- Drove initiatives to standardize infrastructure tooling, practices, and operational procedures across the engineering organization.
- Led multiple AWS cost optimization efforts, including a single initiative that reduced cloud spend by 40%; sustained low costs while supporting continued company growth and scaling.
- Own all infrastructure vendor relationships and contract negotiations — including AWS, Datadog, Codefresh, and Fastly — ensuring contracts align with actual usage and spend.
- Transitioned from individual contributor to engineering manager, taking on team leadership, hiring, and cross-functional stakeholder responsibilities.
Senior DevOps Engineer · Aug 2016–Jul 2021
- Built and maintained a 100% AWS cloud platform using Terraform as primary Infrastructure as Code tool.
- Migrated from Ansible-based monolith to microservice architecture; led major Terraform version upgrades spanning thousands of resources.
- Implemented CI/CD tooling; functioned as acting Team Lead for a dedicated DevOps squad.
- Migrated to multi-account AWS design; codified IAM across 16 accounts; migrated hundreds of domains to Route53.
- Centralized logging and alerting via Datadog and PagerDuty; achieved <1 page/week signal-to-noise ratio.
- Worked with Rancher 1.6 and led migration to EKS Kubernetes; experience with Fastly, CloudFront, PerimeterX, Signal Sciences.
Systems Engineer II · Jul 2015–Aug 2016
Production Operations Engineer · Jun 2013–Jul 2015
- Supported a large eCommerce platform; participated in yearly PCI audits and daily audit tasks.
- Used Puppet and Ansible to maintain a large server fleet; primary engineer on Ansible-controlled analytics service.
- Assisted with deployments of Ruby and PHP applications; maintained a large Elasticsearch cluster.
Linux Systems Administrator · Feb 2012–Jun 2013
- Supported dedicated RHEL/CentOS servers and OpenStack hybrid cloud environments for a diverse customer base.
- Provided technical support via phone and ticketing; worked directly with data center and networking teams.
Skills
Team Leadership
Hiring & Mentorship
Technical Strategy
Cost Optimization
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
Datadog
PagerDuty
Linux
Ansible
Fastly
GitHub Actions
Packer
EKS
Route53