Staff SRE & Technical FinOps Engineer for remote-first infrastructure teams
I help distributed engineering teams run reliable Cloud platforms, Virtualisation platforms, Kubernetes platforms, reduce cloud spend, and turn observability into faster incident response.
I am a Staff SRE and FinOps-focused infrastructure engineer with 8+ years of experience across Circles.co, Zzazz, Broadcom, VMware, and startup environments. I specialize in Kubernetes, cloud cost visibility, observability, incident response, and operational automation for teams that need systems to be reliable without slowing product delivery.
My edge is combining deep infrastructure work with product and business context. After completing ISB's Product Management program, I have become especially interested in reliability work that connects engineering decisions to customer experience, cloud spend, team velocity, and business outcomes. I work well with async, remote-first teams and bring clear communication to ambiguous operational problems.
Defined runbooks, alert flows, and Slack-integrated incident response for faster recovery.
Implemented OpenCost and Kubernetes optimization to improve cost visibility and control.
Reduced unnecessary CloudWatch Logs ingestion by cleaning up noisy log groups and retention patterns.
Optimized inter-AZ and cross-region traffic patterns across AWS EKS clusters to reduce recurring transfer costs.
Used utilization and resiliency data to right-size AWS Direct Connect capacity and reduce recurring connectivity spend.
Segregated Oracle VMs onto dedicated VMware ESXi hosts with affinity rules to reduce licensing exposure.
Led a zero-downtime Kubernetes migration that helped teams ship more confidently.
Automated repeatable operational work so engineers could spend more time on product value.
At Zzazz, led the recovery of MongoDB systems after critical indexes were deleted during a security incident. Rebuilt database indexes, restored application stability, coordinated recovery under pressure, and helped the business regain access to affected systems.
Headed the cloud-to-cloud migration from DigitalOcean to AWS at Zzazz, moving the platform toward stronger reliability, scalability, and long-term infrastructure control.
CloudWatch Logs costs were rising because applications and platform components were sending high-volume logs into groups that did not all carry equal operational value. I investigated the ingestion pattern, separated useful signals from avoidable noise, and reduced recurring spend while preserving the logs needed for debugging and incident response.
AWS EKS clusters were generating expensive inter-AZ and cross-region data transfer charges. I analyzed service communication paths, workload placement, and traffic behavior to identify where network cost was being created unnecessarily.
AWS Direct Connect is easy to treat as fixed infrastructure, especially when it supports production traffic. I learned to approach it as a FinOps and reliability decision: first understand real port utilization and traffic growth, then validate the redundancy design before changing capacity. That made it possible to reduce recurring Direct Connect cost without making availability a trade-off.
Oracle workloads running across broad VMware clusters can increase licensing exposure when placement is not tightly controlled. I reduced that exposure by segregating ESXi hosts dedicated to Oracle VMs into a separate cluster and applying host affinity rules so Oracle workloads stayed on approved capacity.
Working on SRE and FinOps for a global telecom technology environment, focused on reliable platforms, cloud cost visibility, operational efficiency, and collaboration across distributed engineering teams.
Joined as the first SRE and led platform engineering work for a remote engineering team. Built reliability practices from the ground up, reduced MTTR by 65% through runbooks, alert hygiene, and Slack-integrated incident workflows. Built observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry. Cut cloud costs by 27% using OpenCost and Kubernetes optimization, and led a zero-downtime Kubernetes migration that improved release velocity by 3x while reducing operational toil by 80%.
Worked on reliability, debugging, and infrastructure support for enterprise software environments after VMware's transition into Broadcom. Partnered across engineering and support teams to analyze complex production issues, improve system behavior, and keep customer-facing platforms stable during organizational and platform change.
Provided technical leadership for complex VMware vCenter and ESXi environments, focusing on root cause analysis, escalated debugging, and high-severity customer issues. Translated deep infrastructure findings into clear action plans for customers and internal teams.
Handled second-line escalations for vCenter and ESXi, using log analysis, reproduction, and systems debugging to resolve complex infrastructure problems. Built a strong foundation in enterprise reliability, customer communication, and incident ownership.