Résumé

Shrug PW Consulting · Bedford, MA

• Architect and deploy bare metal, containerized, and cloud infrastructure for clients across defense, education, and enterprise sectors.
• Design and build standardized Linux system images (Ubuntu, RHEL, Rocky) and deployment pipelines using Ansible, Puppet, and custom automation tooling.
• Lead complex infrastructure migrations and disaster recovery efforts, including crisis response and system restoration for time-critical environments.
• Build custom monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions delivering actionable insights while reducing alert fatigue.
• Design and deploy production network infrastructure including routing, firewalls, VLANs, wireless, and fiber connectivity for multi-site organizations.
• Develop provisioning documentation, runbooks, and support procedures for client handoff and knowledge transfer.
• Provide open source strategy consulting and technical governance for organizations adopting or contributing to FOSS ecosystems.

Ctrl IQ (CIQ) · Remote

• Performed formally-sponsored contributions to Rocky Linux and RESF infrastructure, bridging company goals and upstream project sustainability.
• Led cross-functional efforts to scale CIQ’s build and release infrastructure for RHEL-derivative products based on Rocky.
• Designed and maintained hybrid CI/CD pipelines for open and closed-source systems, integrating GitLab, Koji, and internal build/test runners.
• Championed upstream-first development practices, ensuring internal engineering work could be contributed back cleanly to RESF when appropriate.
• Provided technical leadership and emergency response across CIQ’s internal infrastructure stack — networking, packaging, on-call rotation.
• Advised CIQ leadership on open source community dynamics, trust-building, and governance best practices.

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) — Rocky Linux · Remote (Volunteer)

• Co-founded and lead infrastructure for the open source rebuild of CentOS Linux (Rocky Linux), coordinating a global team of more than thirty volunteers.
• Design and operate hybrid infrastructure spanning public cloud and physical data centers for global mirror distribution, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering workflows.
• Build and maintain scalable public-facing services — Koji builders, HTTP/RSYNC pools, mirrorlist, and signing infrastructure — supporting 3 billion+ requests/month and 1+ PB/month of traffic.
• Develop and maintain Peridot, the open source build system powering Rocky Linux and CIQ’s RHEL-derivative product lifecycle, for scalable, reproducible, secure builds.
• Build and maintain a cryptographic enclave for UEFI Secure Boot signing, enabling trusted boot for Rocky Linux and downstream derivatives.
• Architect secure-by-default systems and enforce best practices in CI/CD, credential management, artifact signing, and endpoint access control.
• Lead incident response and coordinate recovery for critical infrastructure outages across multiple time zones and providers.
• Manage infrastructure sponsorships and partner relationships for long-term project sustainability and cost-effective operations.

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) · Remote (Volunteer)

• Established the RESF to support community-driven governance, infrastructure, and lifecycle planning for Rocky Linux and other open source projects.
• Represent technical community perspectives on the RESF Advisory Board and help shape project direction and policy.
• Advise on growth, sustainability, and alignment between corporate partners and community goals.

The Fedora Project · Remote (Volunteer)

• Maintain and test packages in EPEL and Fedora branches.
• Contributed to the Fedora RISC-V SIG, supporting alt-arch enablement and early ecosystem work.
• Participated in Fedora CommOps, helping shape community engagement strategies and project visibility.
• Advocate for upstream-first workflows and maintain contributor-friendly build/test automation.

KAYAK Software Corporation · Concord, MA

• Managed production and corporate networks across two data centers and 14+ global offices.
• Re-architected core switching to a modern spine/leaf fabric using BigSwitch Cloud Fabric (OpenDaylight).
• Replaced aging Juniper gear and unstable edge routers; improved interconnects with private links and a Boston POP for AWS Direct Connect.
• Designed and implemented a PII “bubble” to segment sensitive workloads from general production traffic.
• Led CDN modernization using Fastly + Varnish; built traffic shaping and A/B testing config.
• Maintained RADIUS and SAML-based MFA proxies for secure access to network gear.
• Owned alerting/on-call infrastructure; migrated incident workflows from PagerDuty to OpsGenie.
• Introduced Apache Airflow for analytics engineering, improving billing/reporting pipelines.

Wentworth Institute of Technology · Boston, MA
Minor in Computer Networking

• Coursework in algorithms, compiler design, networking, security, software architecture, and systems programming.