About

I’m a Principal Platform Engineer who believes the best security is the kind developers never have to think about. I build paved roads, keyless authentication, policy-driven guardrails, and pipelines that enforce plan-before-apply discipline, so that the secure path and the easy path are the same path.

Today that means leading a team of engineers building cloud foundations across Google Cloud and AWS, plus some Azure, with Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitLab CI at the core of the stack.

How I got here

I’ve been doing this for twenty years, and the through-line has always been building the platforms other people work on. I started as a systems engineer in 2005, then spent over a decade specializing in SharePoint and database administration, first at Trax, then Broward College, then Baptist Health. Running the collaboration platform an entire organization depends on teaches you early that reliability and usability aren’t features; they’re the product.

In 2021 I made the jump to cloud, helping drive Baptist’s migration to AWS. In 2024 we added Google Cloud, and I led the foundation rollout, landing zones, governance, and the guardrails that let teams onboard safely from day one. In 2026 I was promoted to Principal, where I now lead the platform engineering team.

What I’m exploring now

The agentic AI stack: multi-agent platforms, portable skill systems, and the governance layer that lets AI agents operate safely inside enterprise infrastructure. I think platform engineering is about to go through the same shift CI/CD brought a decade ago, and I’m writing about it as I figure it out.

Off the clock

You’ll usually find me in my homelab, running local LLMs, a Kubernetes cluster, and more self-hosted services than any household reasonably needs. It’s where I break things so I don’t have to break them at work.

Say hello

Find me on LinkedIn or Bluesky, or just read the posts — that’s why the site exists.