I am selecting my next employer.
I am a senior engineer and technical leader with 30+ years of engineering experience, including extensive work on distributed systems, enterprise platforms, infrastructure, and production reliability.
I take ownership of complex technical problems, challenge assumptions, and focus on measurable engineering and business outcomes.
I am looking for an organization that values technical depth, sound engineering judgment, and meaningful ownership, and is prepared to demonstrate it.
Ownership & Scope
Whether addressing a specific reliability bottleneck within an established team or taking end-to-end ownership across the stack—from physical infrastructure and server hardware to cloud-native platforms and application state, I focus on operational resilience and measurable delivery outcomes.
About Me & Background
Throughout my career, spanning regulated enterprise banking like PTSB, enterprise technology providers like IBM, and high-throughput fintech environments, I have specialized in taking ambiguous, high-stakes technical initiatives from concept to production scale.
My work bridges the gap between software development, rigorous non-functional reliability, and operational stability, ensuring that underlying architecture directly supports product goals and business revenue without unexpected failure modes.
Relevant Engineering Domains
Complex infrastructure and high-throughput systems fail when architectural changes break business workflows, introduce blind spots, or compromise resilience. Below are core domains where I typically add immediate value.
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Infrastructure Migrations
Safely transitioning workloads from legacy virtual machines to modern container ecosystems, bridging on-premise enterprise middleware (such as IBM MQ) to cloud environments, and restructuring public cloud footprints into efficient hybrid or private architectures.
SLAs & Operational Metrics
Defining and achieving critical performance indicators, including MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), QoS (Quality of Service), and strict SLAs, through rigorous chaos testing, performance profiling, and capacity planning under heavy enterprise load.
QA & Test Beds
Partnering directly with internal QA and automation teams to protect core business workflows. Architecting robust integration test stubs, mocking complex third-party vendor dependencies, and scaling automated test infrastructure so teams can validate changes safely.
High-Throughput Platforms
Designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures supporting strict transactional requirements, high-volume message routing, and zero-downtime deployments across enterprise systems.
Security & Compliance
Embedding automated security quality gates, static code analysis, and audit-friendly governance directly into delivery pipelines without sacrificing engineering velocity.
Distributed State & Costs
Architecting recovery and provisioning patterns for massive distributed state footprints (exceeding 12 TiB) and rationalizing Infrastructure as Code to eliminate unnecessary cloud waste.
Evaluating Mutual Fit
Finding the right organizational match requires clear, mutual transparency regarding technical reality, operational discipline, and decision-making authority.
To respect everyone's time, prospective employers should be prepared to outline the core technical challenge, current constraints, decision-making scope, and team reliability maturity upfront.
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