Experience

Engineering with
operational weight.

The through-line is ownership: understanding the mission, building the system, operating it under real constraints, and improving what comes next.

Field / SRE Engineer

Government technology program

Hands-on reliability and platform engineering across AWS, Kubernetes, on-premises infrastructure, DNS, proxies, networking, software delivery, and automation in a high-trust environment.

Founder · CEO / CTO

LoneCypressAI

Founded and led an applied AI engineering company. Owned technical strategy, product architecture, client discovery, software delivery, deployment, and operations from first conversation through production.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Accenture Federal Services

Developed Helm charts, autoscaling, and Jenkins delivery pipelines for Kubernetes application deployments; built automation in Python and JavaScript.

Senior Network Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Worked on cloud-native infrastructure and network engineering, improving deployment workflows, operational consistency, and systems automation.

Lead Engineer, DevOps

Booz Allen Hamilton

Built automated delivery systems with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Rancher, Jenkins, and Python; supported data engineering workflows with Apache NiFi.

Systems Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Built and operated secure, scalable systems supporting Amazon S3 in specialized AWS regions, with extensive Python, JavaScript, serverless, automation, and operational ownership.

Arabic Linguist · Instructor · Special Operations

United States Army

Served for ten years, including assignments with 5th Special Forces Group and the Defense Language Institute, two combat deployments, and recognition with the Bronze Star.

Software engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, and product work are one connected system.

Working stack

Tools in service
of outcomes.

Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, SQL, and modern AI engineering systems.

CERTIFICATION

AWS Advanced Networking — Specialty

Validated depth across hybrid networks, routing, connectivity, security, automation, and troubleshooting.

CERTIFICATION

CompTIA Security+

Security foundations applied through years of real systems, federal, military, and production engineering work.

PRACTICE

Full lifecycle ownership

Discovery, architecture, implementation, delivery, operations, incident response, and continual improvement.