Resume

Engineering Manager

New York City Metropolitan Area LinkedIn

Engineering Manager with 15+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Experience leading platform, SRE, and DevOps teams responsible for production operations, incident response, and reliability in regulated environments.

Experience

Salesforce

to Present

Manager, Software Engineering

DevOps / Platform · New York, NY

  • Built and scaled a seven-engineer Platform Engineering team supporting mission-critical cloud infrastructure.
  • Led cross-functional work with product, security, and operations to improve reliability, scalability, and operational maturity in FedRAMP-regulated environments.
  • Defined platform strategy across compute, networking, observability, and cloud security; led architecture reviews and technical decisions.
  • Improved incident management, operational standards, and post-incident retrospectives.

OwnData

to Feb 2025

Team Lead, DevOps + Senior DevOps Engineer

Acquired by Salesforce · Englewood Cliffs, NJ

  • Led a DevOps team operating AWS and Azure production infrastructure.
  • Standardized infrastructure as code with Terraform to improve deployment consistency and reliability.
  • Served as the primary escalation point for production incidents, infrastructure reliability, and architecture decisions.

Food52

to Jun 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

New York, NY

  • Maintained and improved AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch, Lambda, and API Gateway, with a focus on security and cost management.
  • Built infrastructure and CI/CD workflows with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
  • Diagnosed networking, certificate, security, and third-party integration issues; maintained build and deployment tools.

Tablet Hotels

to Mar 2021

Lead DevOps Engineer

New York, NY

  • Led DevOps work toward a distributed environment and moved infrastructure from the data center to AWS.
  • Built services and infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Bitbucket pipelines.
  • Contributed to systems planning, administration, monitoring, automation, and network support.

Sailthru

to May 2018

Senior Systems Engineer

New York, NY

  • Designed, built, and managed growing infrastructure with the operations team.
  • Used Ansible to provision systems and migrate applications to newer operating systems; configured HAProxy for high availability.
  • Worked across teams on system design and integration, deployment strategies, and data center architecture.

DrJays.com

to Jul 2014

Systems Administrator

New York, NY

Ask.com

to Sep 2008

Unix Engineer

White Plains, NY

Core skills

Leadership
Engineering management, technical strategy, cross-functional leadership, incident management, operational excellence.
Site reliability
Observability, SLO/SLI monitoring, reliability engineering, FedRAMP compliance.
Cloud & platform
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Argo CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Linux, networking.

Certifications

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Coursework toward a B.S. in Computer Science.