Summary
Platform Engineer with 10+ years building and automating production systems at scale. Specialized in cloud-native data pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD automation for multi-tenant environments.
Proven track record designing and operating data pipelines across 4,000+ store environments, building partner-facing data exports for major analytics firms, and implementing auto-scaling infrastructure that eliminates service disruptions. Strong ownership of reliability, cost control, and operational clarity.
Professional Experience
Platform Engineer (DevOps)
Quilt Software, Remote | July 2024 – Present
- Large-Scale Data Pipelines: Designed, optimized, and operated data processing pipelines across 4,000+ store environments. Built Jenkins-driven workflows that extract, transform, and aggregate data from legacy POS software, converting DBF data into CSV and Parquet formats for reporting, analytics, and partner delivery via S3.
- Partner Data Exports: Built and maintained partner-facing data export pipelines for Circana, Nielsen, and Carbon Arc across multiple product lines (Spirits, BottlePOS, Comcash). Handled different schemas, business rules, and data sources per product while ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on-time delivery.
- Auto-Scaling Infrastructure: Designed and implemented an automated infrastructure scaling workflow that monitors AWS Application Load Balancer target counts and triggers Terraform provisioning before capacity is exhausted—eliminating timing gaps during instance growth and preventing service degradation.
- Deployment Tooling: Led the design and build of installation and upgrade tools for the Spirits application, replacing manual, error-prone processes with repeatable deployment workflows that reduced issues and improved consistency for customers and support teams.
- Cloud Migration Tooling: Created a cloud import and conversion tool to migrate customers from legacy software environments, automating data intake, normalization, and validation to accelerate onboarding and reduce migration risk.
- Reliability Engineering: Implemented structured failure logging, retry mechanisms, prefix-level timing metrics, and automated cleanup logic across pipelines—significantly reducing manual intervention and troubleshooting time.
- Cost & Infrastructure Ownership: Maintained ownership of AWS infrastructure stability and cost awareness, monitoring EC2, S3, and backup usage, improving backup/restore workflows, and ensuring the platform scales safely as data volumes increase.
Systems Administrator & Platform Support
Atlantic Systems Inc, Remote | March 2020 – July 2024
- Infrastructure Management: Managed Windows Server and Linux infrastructure supporting backend and POS systems for multi-state retail operations.
- Legacy Modernization: Migrated Visual FoxPro data workflows into cloud-native reporting pipelines (Python, Pandas, S3), reducing manual intervention and support load.
- Automation: Built PowerShell and batch automation for DBF reindexing, backup routines, and license validation—eliminating hours of repetitive manual tasks.
- Data Integrity: Managed and normalized SKU data across stores, automated exports for reporting pipelines, and maintained data consistency standards.
- Backup & Recovery: Established AWS Backup + lifecycle retention policies with logging and alerts for 5+ regional S3 buckets.
IT Specialist / Cloud Operations
Atlantic Systems Inc, Wall, NJ | Oct 2015 – March 2020
- Cloud Infrastructure: Deployed and monitored AWS EC2 instances for 100+ customer stores running Spirits POS cloud infrastructure.
- Security Hardening: Implemented IAM policies, VPC security groups, and access auditing procedures to secure cloud environments.
- Observability: Built monitoring scripts and dashboards to proactively detect system crashes, backup failures, and database drift.
- Technical Support: Provided Tier 2 support and training for internal staff and retail store personnel across 6 states.
Technical Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, IAM, CloudFormation, AWS Backup, STS, Cost Explorer)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Data Engineering: Pandas, Parquet, SQLite, boto3, CSV/DBF parsing, SQL
- Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, structured logging, metric collection
- Containers & Systems: Docker, Windows Server, Ubuntu
- Security: IAM policies, least privilege, S3 bucket policies, VPC security groups
Education & Certifications
- AAS in Computer Science — Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ (2023)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
GitHub
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Certification Credentials
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Course – Udemy
Certified Solutions Architect Course – Tutorials Dojo