Real infrastructure programs from my roles — what was broken, what I changed, and what it measured.
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Centene Corporation · SRE Engineer · 2024 — Present
EMBARK Redesign & Disaster Recovery
Integrated SRE practices into the disaster recovery plan for the EMBARK platform — optimized OpenShift clusters, streamlined deployments with ArgoCD, and built unified monitoring across Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Elastic, Splunk, and Istio.
25% faster incident resolutionOpenShift at scaleFull-stack observability
OpenShiftArgoCDPrometheusIstio
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Brillio · Platform Engineer · 2023 — 2024
DNM Transformation — UX & Platform
Re-architected platform environments for scale — tuned CI/CD and observability configurations, automated rehydrations, and hardened load balancers, apps, and servers with vulnerability patches and certificate management.
20% deployment efficiency15% less manual workZero-downtime patching
CI/CDObservabilityAutomationSecurity
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Ciena · DevOps Engineer · 2019 — 2023
Blue Planet Migration
Migrated the Blue Planet platform onto Kubernetes and AWS — deployed scalable, secure clusters, integrated EC2/S3/EKS, automated pipelines with Terraform and TeamCity, and secured microservices with an Istio service mesh.
30% operational efficiency40% faster deploymentsSecure service mesh
KubernetesAWS EKSTerraformIstio
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Westfield Insurance · DevOps & AWS Engineer · 2017 — 2019
Insurance Platform on AWS
Brought SRE discipline to a legacy insurance platform — tailored AWS solutions to the business, automated monitoring and deployments with shell scripting, and ran Kubernetes-backed CI/CD for reliable releases.
15% less downtime20% fewer deploy errorsAWS-native
AWSKubernetesShellSRE
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Ever Cars · DevOps Engineer · 2014 — 2017
Build & Release Automation
Owned daily build and release for a fast-moving product team — configured Jenkins and Maven for automated builds, partnered with developers to unblock integration, and drove deployment errors down through monitoring and triage.
30% faster builds20% fewer deploy errorsDaily releases
JenkinsMavenRelease Mgmt
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DLG Insurance · Linux Administrator · 2013 — 2014
Linux Infrastructure Foundations
Where it all started — administered RHEL servers, automated routine work with crontab, streamlined software management with YUM/RPM/DNF, and pushed automation that made the whole admin function faster.
20% less downtime25% admin efficiencyRHEL
LinuxBashAutomation