• Built the first dedicated SRE function for a high-volume fintech platform.
• Owned enterprise QA strategy, CI quality gates, and shift-left quality practice.
• Led security-sensitive incident response and post-incident systemic remediation.
• Use Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex CLI daily to accelerate analysis, testing, and delivery.
• Apply Naval operational discipline to production readiness, incident ownership, and quality leadership.

Founded and built the first dedicated SRE function for a high-volume payment processing environment, introducing incident practice, observability improvements, deterministic testing, and a formal modernization path for a legacy authorization stack.

• Established blameless post-mortem standards and a runbook library across six production incidents with explicit recovery, RCA, hotfix, and remediation targets.
• Built deterministic integration testing infrastructure for a legacy .NET payment authorization engine using Dockerized SQL Server, controllable external-auth mocks, and a Go-based SOAP/SQL test harness.
• Improved observability in a high-risk external authorization path by restructuring request-level logging and surfacing malformed upstream responses without adding latency to the critical path.
• Architected a strangler-pattern modernization strategy for a 15-year-old payment monolith with shadow traffic, broker-based flows, feature flags, idempotency improvements, and rollback-safe sequencing.
• Applied AI-assisted engineering to take a fragmented, two-year-stalled test harness effort to production-ready state over a single weekend.

Led reliability, quality, and deployment engineering for a mature serverless platform in a regulated financial services environment.

• Built CDK, TypeScript, and Python automation that removed manual deployment steps across 12+ services and supported zero-downtime blue-green releases.
• Owned QA strategy and quality gate enforcement, including code coverage standards and SonarQube/Mend integration in CI pipelines.
• Led the organization's migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, standardizing deployment patterns across the enterprise.
• Executed active intrusion containment during a critical vulnerability cycle and produced compliance-grade post-incident documentation.
• Mentored junior engineers and interns while leading retrospectives focused on systemic gap removal rather than superficial fixes.

A fully immersive, project-based full-stack Java career accelerator. It formalized the transition into software delivery and provided the application-development vocabulary that now complements a much longer background in operational leadership.

Engineering and training leadership aboard USS Leyte Gulf and USS Mahan in high-accountability operational environments.

• Owned the ship's Training Figure of Merit like a service level indicator, improving readiness performance from 75% to 96% through gap analysis and corrective action.
• Eliminated training and scheduling toil across a 200-person organization by creating ownership, intake, and capacity management where none existed.
• Completed four major readiness assessments that certified the ship as deployment-ready and later helped train peer ships through qualification cycles.