Experience
Meta Bang LLC
Co-Founder / CTO / Full stack Engineer / System Engineer | 2022 - Current
Designed and developed AI powered (GPT-4) interactive iPhone and Android mobile application allowing users to interact
and chat with a virtual representation of historical figures called Knowtify Chat. Available in Apple App store and Google Play Store.
Lead engineer for frontend, backend, database, prompt engineering, OpenAI API Proxy.
Setup and managed cloud infrastructure utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Run
Using Vue3 and Ionic Capacitor and Typescript for the UI and containerized Python for custom API.
Integrated payment gateway such as Revenue Cat for handling in app purchases for both iOS and Android
Freelance
Self-employed | 2020-2022
Setup and managed cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring optimal resource allocation, performance, and security measures.
Leveraging Kubernetes and Docker to orchestrate workloads.
Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Provided IT and website development services to small and midsize businesses.
Built the deployment infrastructure of a blockchain technology startup.
Amazon
Senior System Engineer / Administrator III | 2019-2020
After acquisition of Nimble Collective into the Amazon AWS Ec2 team, rebuilt the platform's infrastructure architecture
and redesigned the deployment system to conform with internal Amazon systems and methodologies.
Worked with the team that developed CDK to implement a full “infrastructure as code” configuration.
Used Amazon internal testing suite to promote releases through the CI/CD process.
Assisted development teams to enable their code to function on AWS systems.
Nimble Collective (Acquired by Amazon)
Director of DevOps | 2017-2019
Architected infrastructure of remote animation studio product based on Kubernetes.
Reduced deploy time from 3 hours to 30 seconds.
Moved entire system from AWS to Azure in a week.
Guided startup through due diligence and acquisition by Amazon
SciProLabs
Co-Founder | 2016 - 2017
Developed and coded a social gathering organization app for iPhone and Android.
Built AWS infrastructure to support app. Provided DevOps consulting for clients.
StudioNow
Director of DevOps | 2014-2016
Maintained and monitored scalable video rendering and encoding system. Managed legacy AWS environment.
Designed and built new redundant highly available and scalable AWS environment.
Implemented automatic deployment and continuous testing/integration system.
Developed full infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems.
Created full backup and disaster recovery plans.
Discovery Digital Networks (Formerly Revision3)
Operations Engineer | 2014-2016
Rebuilt entire IT infrastructure from ground up.
Managed onsite video rendering and encoding cluster.
Custom designed and built all video editing workstations.
Custom designed and built traveling video editing platform for use at remote sites.
Managed and installed 300TB fiber-optic storage network.
Designed and built custom redundant highly available live video streaming systems.
Integrated systems after aquisistion by Discovery Communications. (Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, etc.)
DMG World Media (Daily Mail)
IT Analyst | 2005-2010
Supported 300+ employees of multinational event producer and media company.
Maintained and supported Active Directory, Exchange Servers and companywide MPLS of 32 offices in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Handled integration of email and network systems of multiple companies after acquisition into the company.
Managed infrastructure of leading ad tech industry website iMedia.
Assisted onsite at events such as ad:tech and large scale regional home and garden shows.