Provide technical championship and automation expertise
Improving people, process, and tools.
Building secure, modern, cloud-native infrastructure.
Helping teams and organizations on their journey to the cloud.
- Education
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Roosevelt University - Chicago, IL
B.S. Computer Science
Minor: Mathematics
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Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
M.S. Information Systems
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DePaul University - Chicago, IL
M.S. Network Security/Network Engineering
- Publications
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- Project paper: A Cloud
Native Security Lab
- Experience
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Palo Alto Networks Principal Engineer - Security Infra Automation - 2020-Current
- Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure as Code (IaC) for customers in
public cloud environments (GCP, OCI, AWS, and Azure) based on best security practices
and reference architectures.
- API automation work.
Salesforce Senior Security Engineer - Bellevue, WA - 2014-2019
- Our team designed, built and maintained an in-house large scale security log collection solution to process over 1B security events per day.
- Built & maintained Data Science Pipeline. We pushed the security logs through a normalizer into
a Hadoop cluster. Built and maintained the Airflow setup to manage and execute our data models.
- Built out data science pipeline in the FedRamp High GovCloud environment in AWS.
- Built out large scale packet capture solution on internal company IT networks.
- Built and maintained the CI/CD pipeline architecture for the SDE team.
Indiana University Principal Research Software Engineer - 2012-2013
- Test Architect in Software Defined Networking Lab, designed test cases and directed test efforts on openflow networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks Research & Development Engineer - 2011-2012
Motorola Senior Staff Engineer - 1995-2011
- CDMA Cellular base station product development, test and deployment.