Contact
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Executive Summary
Staff-level cloud and platform engineer with 15+ years delivering secure, production-grade systems across cloud, infrastructure automation, and public sector compliance.
Specializes in FedRAMP execution, automation-first engineering, and building bespoke tooling when commercial products don’t fit the mission.
Experience
Leadership, platform engineering, DevOps, and compliance automation across enterprise + public sector.
CoreLytics
Founder & CEO
- Founded corelytics.cloud, a cloud-platform engineering consultancy focused on automated, secure, scalable cloud solutions for enterprise and public-sector clients.
- Designed and launched Cloud Explorer, a multi-cloud visibility and AI-driven discovery and orchestration platform that continuously ingests live metadata from provider APIs and maintains near real-time infrastructure snapshots.
- Engineered a living topology knowledge graph unifying compute, network, storage, identity, and policy relationships across clouds, enabling recursive queries and explainable architecture mapping.
- Implemented a hybrid Cognition Engine combining graph reasoning, symbolic compliance rules, and RAG over NIST 800-53, CIS, and FedRAMP sources to produce real-time compliance verification and risk insights.
- Delivered an integrated visualization and narration experience where users explore interactive 2D/3D cloud maps and receive LLM-generated, audit-traceable narratives, executive summaries, and evidence-backed remediation guidance.
Health Equity (3-month contract)
Principal Linux Engineer · DevOps Lead
- Implemented a RAG-based chat interface for Azure resources, enabling conversational search and contextual querying across cloud data sources using vector embeddings, semantic retrieval, and Azure OpenAI.
- Developed a Security Controls Chatbot leveraging compliance datasets (NIST 800-53, CIS, FedRAMP) to automate control validation, evidence generation, and policy interpretation via natural language interaction.
- Created a Python-based Cloud Explorer platform to dynamically map, query, and visualize multi-cloud assets across Azure and hybrid environments, providing unified visibility for compliance and operations.
- Built modular Python applications integrating API discovery, automation, and compliance scanning, forming a foundation for scalable DevOps and governance tooling.
Quzara
Principal Cloud Engineer · DevOps & SRE Lead
- Designed and deployed secure, scalable environments across Azure Commercial and Azure US Gov, leveraging Azure Firewall, NSGs, private networking, diagnostic policies, and centralized logging to meet FedRAMP High requirements.
- TorchLite (Compliance Automation Framework): Led the architecture and development of a headless Azure Container Instance (ACI) platform that automates security validation of Microsoft Graph API endpoints against NIST 800-53 controls; integrated GitHub Actions, Graph API token management, and real-time reporting into a centralized compliance engine.
- TorchShell (Interactive Cloud Engineering Toolkit): Created a container-based CLI leveraging prompt_toolkit, Azure CLI, and encrypted config stores to enable secure fleet discovery, SSH validation, and cross-subscription automation, with dark-mode UX, hotkey toggles, and dynamic inventory scanning for hybrid cloud.
- Engineered a dynamic evaluator system that parses OSCAL catalogs and maps Microsoft Graph API endpoints to NIST controls; implemented logic injection, evidence validation, and drift detection across Azure tenants to automate security assessments previously performed manually.
- Designed and deployed centralized Chef Infra systems to enforce STIG and CIS baselines across Windows and Linux workloads, using custom cookbooks for configuration hardening and continuous drift remediation.
- Built secure VM image pipelines using Packer, Python, and Azure Image Gallery, integrating compliance checks and agent bootstrap logic for at-scale provisioning.
BCU
Senior Cloud Engineer
- Led development of a Qualys server solution, modernizing task workflows and replacing Excel-based processes.
- Built a Python-based CLI for Azure Cloud, ADO, and Qualys resources.
- Designed a dynamic web interface using Flask, Dash, and Qualys API.
GOAAT
Application Development / Open Source
- Developed an application providing a unified interface for multiple cloud providers.
VMware, Inc.
Staff Cloud Engineer
- Developed Python modules using Click and Fernet to modernize VMC toolkits.
- Managed AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform workflows for GovCloud.
Oracle
Principal / Senior Engineering Roles
- Led US FedRAMP SaaS implementation for OCI.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines and automation for Oracle Management Cloud.
- Key contributor to Oracle FedRAMP accreditation efforts.
United Airlines
Senior Virtualization Engineer
- Managed VMware infrastructure and ensured operational stability.
Red Hat
Senior Platform Consultant
- Led Red Hat Satellite and security projects for Home Depot and Bechtel.
Education
Robert Morris College
A.A.S., Computer Networking (2002–2004)
GPA 4.0Honors
United States Navy
Radioman (RM) “A” School (1998)
Formal training in secure communications, signal operations, and operational discipline under mission-critical conditions.
Core Competencies
Executive highlights + expandable detail.
Key Strengths
FedRAMP / NIST 800-53Azure (Commercial + US Gov)Terraform / BicepKubernetesCI/CD (Jenkins, ADO, Actions)Ansible / ChefCompliance AutomationGraph + RAG Systems
CI/CD & Delivery
JenkinsAzure DevOps (ADO)GitHub ActionsConcourseGitLab CI
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformBicepPackerHelm
Cloud Platforms
Azure (Commercial + US Gov)AWS (incl. GovCloud)OCIGCP
Security & Compliance
FedRAMPNIST 800-53Evidence AutomationAudit-Traceable Reporting
Certifications
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Awards
PDIT Excellence Award — Q4 2016
Above & Beyond Award — 2020 (Oracle Management Cloud)
Equity Awards — FY 2016 / 2017 / 2018