Who I am

I'm a solutions architect and infrastructure engineer with 26 years of experience in cloud, Kubernetes, and enterprise security. Currently at Red Hat as an Associate Principal Solutions Architect and Account Architect, helping organizations navigate hybrid cloud and platform engineering.

My career has taken me from hands-on Linux and network engineering to cloud architecture and presales, with stops at Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and back to Red Hat. Along the way I've worked on federal government programs, commercial cloud platforms, and everything in between.

What I do

These days I spend most of my time as a dedicated account architect — owning the end-to-end technical relationship with enterprise customers, helping them build multi-year technology roadmaps, and making sure Red Hat's hybrid cloud portfolio actually solves their problems (OpenShift, RHEL, Ansible Automation Platform, and the rest of the stack).

I care about the unglamorous parts: Day 2 operations, security baselines, GitOps workflows, and the kind of platform engineering that makes developer teams move faster without burning the ops team out.

Outside work

I run a self-hosted homelab on Proxmox — Kubernetes on RHEL, GitOps, the works. This site is deployed on it. I'll write more about that on the homelab page.

I also tend a backyard permaculture garden in Virginia: raised beds, companion planting, water retention schemes for the brutal summer heat. It's a good counterbalance to staring at terminals all day.