Resume

Education and Training

Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College

Chief Information Security Officer Program, 2021

AWS

Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2022

Experience

Plasmidsaurus

Infrastructure and Security Lead, August 2025–Present

• Standardized office networks across five office sites in three countries, implementing SD-WAN, hierarchical network topologies as IaC, and site-to-site VPN.
• Migrated existing production EC2 instances to continuously deployed ECS services, maintaining IaC and deployment pipelines for the company’s core product.
• Wrote and implemented policies SOC 2, moving the company from zero-policy to SOC 2 observation window within six month window.

Tau Motors

Business Operations Lead – IT, InfoSec, DevOps, October 2023–August 2025

• Ported all existing cloud infrastructure to continuously deployed Terraform configurations.
• Migrated existing Windows 10 server infrastructure to Ansible-managed bare-metal Debian environment.
• Increased DevOps test coverage from 0% to 100% in under six months, maintaining 100% coverage to date.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions for: software testing, Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure, and on-premise hardware tests (via Jenkins + local GitHub runners).
• Migrated non-hierarchical, single-site Sonicwall network to segmented pfSense+Mikrotik LAN spanning multiple IPsec-connected offices with active load-balancing on highly available WAN gateways.
• Authored and implemented information security policies in order to achieve TISAX ISMS certification in under seven months.
• Implemented MDM, IdP, and EDR, bringing previously unmanaged accounts and systems under management in compliance with new security requirements.

Prime Trust

Director of Information Technology, September 2019–October 2023

• Worked with Executive officers to design, and coordinate the construction of a 40-thousand square foot office space, deploying multiple Crestron conferencing systems and a Cisco Meraki LAN.
• Migrated existing MDM to Cisco Meraki and integrated Cisco system with the company IdP.
• Developed custom softwares for hardware inventory life-cycle management and service desk metric reporting.
• Migrated existing IdP, password manager, file server, and payroll systems to new services in under six weeks without disrupting business operations or increasing operational expenditures, supporting 400 employees.
• Developed and deployed Ansible playbooks to harden new end-user Linux devices with multi-distribution support for Debian-, RHEL-, and Arch-based systems.
• Providing dedicated, 24/7 service to Executive officers for both IT systems and security incident remediation.

DevOps Engineer

• Wrote internal tooling and automation to improve team velocity.
• Worked with Product and Engineering teams during software deployments and incident response/remediation.
• Assisted as subject-matter expert in relevant IT and cryptography domains during ISO and SOC certifications and audits.
• Ported third-party EDR software to enforce compatibility with previously unmonitored Arch-based Linux distributions.

System Administrator

• Migrated existing Fortigate LAN hardware to Cisco Meraki appliances with no network downtime during business hours.
• Reduced operational expenditures by 20 percent, replacing costly and outdated subscription services with open-source alternatives.
• Reduced penetration test findings by 80 percent within a three-month period.
• Migrated Active Directory, password manager, and payroll systems to cloud-based services.
• Wrote, implemented, and provided subject-matter expertise in information security policies, assisting the company in achieving an ISO 27001 certification in 2021 and SOC 2 in 2022.

Technical Skills and Expertise

Languages and Operating Systems. Python, Shell (bash), Linux (RHEL, Debian, Alpine, Arch), FreeBSD, OpenWrt.

Networking and Cloud. AWS, Heroku, Cisco Meraki, Fortigate/Fortinet, pfSense, OpenWrt, Mikrotik,

Policy and Certification. ISO-27001, SOC 2, TISAX.

Virtualization, Containerization, SCM, and Configuration Management. Docker, Git, Proxmox, ELK, Ansible, Terraform, Hyper-V, multiple MDMs (Microsoft Intune, Rippling, Active Directory, Cisco Meraki).