Principal Engineer and Platform Architect with over 22 years of experience designing secure, automated infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. Hands-on expert in IaC, CI/CD, and platform governance. Also supports mission-driven organizations as a Fractional CIO.
Platform Architect, Instructure, Inc
Jun, 2024 - Present
Built an internal developer platform using AWS Multi-Account, EKS, ArgoCD, and Terraform Cloud, reducing provisioning time by 90% and increasing developer autonomy by 50%.
Led platform governance implementation using AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator.
Established infrastructure guardrails aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards.
Driving FedRAMP Moderate readiness by aligning systems with NIST 800-53 controls.
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Instructure, Inc
Apr, 2022 - Jun, 20242 years 2 months
Modernized local environments with Docker Compose, cutting onboarding time by 40%.
Eliminated infrastructure drift using GitHub Actions and Terraform IaC pipelines.
Rebuilt CI/CD for Canvas Credentials, reducing deploy time by 70%.
Contributed to internal engineering principles adopted company-wide.
Delivered talks on observability and platform architecture to internal engineering teams.
Principal Site Reliability / Systems Engineer, Concentric Sky
Oct, 2013 - Apr, 20228 years 6 months
Built multi-cloud platforms on AWS and Azure, maintaining 99.95% uptime.
Achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance through infrastructure automation and logging.
Deployed Badgr (Canvas Credentials) on Azure for Walmart's cloud compliance needs.
Created Python LDAP/AD libraries, reducing provisioning time by 60%.
Built and maintained HA infrastructure: OpenLDAP, FreeRADIUS, VMware clusters.
Owner, Gray Consulting
Jan, 2010 - Jan, 20166 years
Delivered contract services in network design, systems engineering, and automation.
Systems Infrastructure Specialist, University of Oregon
Aug, 2010 - Oct, 20133 years 2 months
Managed Puppet-based config management across production web services.
Led IPv6 deployment and centralized F5 services.
Designed HA virtualized infrastructure.
Director, IT & Services, InstantAction
Apr, 2010 - Aug, 20104 months
Senior System & Network Engineer, InstantAction
Oct, 2008 - Apr, 20101 year 6 months
Network Administrator, Avant Assessment
Oct, 2007 - Oct, 20081 year
Technical Manager, IT, Lunar Logic
Jul, 2004 - Nov, 20073 years 4 months
Virus Removal Tech, Symantec (via E.C.E)
Jan, 2004 - Jul, 20046 months
AWS
Azure
Terraform
Ansible
Chef
Puppet
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Python
Golang
Kotlin
OpenLDAP
FreeRADIUS
Active Directory
SOC 2
FedRAMP
ISO 27001
IAM
Vault
Computer and Information Science, , University of Oregon
- Present
Computer Network Operations, , Lane Community College
- Present
Computer Science, , Southern Oregon University
- Present
Fractional CIO, Parenting Now
Apr, 2024 - Present
Advising executive leadership on technology strategy, infrastructure modernization, and cybersecurity practices for a nonprofit supporting parents and families.
