About
Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 18 years building and operating infrastructure. I've gone from sole sysadmin for 3,000 users to leading a platform team managing 100K+ resources across AWS.
Experience
Founder & Principal Consultant
Aronov Ventures / Remote
- Run a small AI consulting studio building production AI-agent infrastructure and cloud platforms on AWS — using AI to make software teams faster without giving up safety or control
- Operate a self-hosted platform of AI agents that help write, review, and ship code across dozens of repositories, all through sandboxed execution and human approval
- Build client AWS platforms end to end — multi-account Control Tower foundations, Terraform, and keyless OIDC CI/CD
- Run multi-provider LLM infrastructure with per-task model selection and failover for cost control
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Stepped out of management and back into deep technical work — focused on making cloud infrastructure faster, simpler, and cheaper to operate
- Broke monolithic Terraform into clean, independently deployable modules, cutting plan time ~60% and environment setup from hours to well under an hour
- Built an AI-assisted debugging workflow that speeds root-cause analysis during incidents, always with a human approving any change
- Stood up a failover to another AI platform within a day when a key provider became unavailable for an extended period, so the team kept building without interruption
- Architected modular platform provisioning ~10K resources per environment across 6 production environments (100K+ total)
Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Promoted from senior engineer to lead the infrastructure org as both manager and technical architect — the mission was to get infrastructure out of my team's inbox and into developers' hands
- Replaced a 3-day manual release train with same-day self-service CI/CD (~30 min per environment) across 6 environments
- Built self-service account provisioning on AWS Control Tower + AFT — governed environments via merge request instead of tickets
- Scaled Terraform/IaC adoption to ~20 engineers across the org
- Designed AMI lifecycle using EC2 Image Builder with Inspector scanning and CIS hardening, producing compliance-ready hardened golden images
- Engineered Terraform-driven multi-region failover for active-active stateful services — executed during real regional failover events
Senior DevOps Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Joined the infrastructure team — shipped and operated the container workloads and built the internal tooling that kept the platform running
- Built multi-region infrastructure for the production platform
- Contributed an upstream fix to the Terraform AWS Provider (PR #24685, merged same-day)
- Built a Go on-call integration linking alerts to incidents and tickets automatically
Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
Tompkins Robotics / Orlando, FL (Hybrid)
- Owned infrastructure and reliability for a warehouse-robotics platform running on the floors of major retail and logistics enterprises
- Built BaseStack — a full local replica of production that ran on a single laptop, so a whole team could run real pipelines and pass every test before merging, eliminating ~$45K/year in cloud dev-environment costs
- Packaged it into a self-contained, air-gapped appliance shipped and deployed on-site for enterprise customers
- Built the blue/green deploys and ELK/AppDynamics observability that kept the platform reliable (surfacing issues like a missing database index)
Full Stack Engineer & UI/UX Designer
Nano Web Group / New York, NY
- Shipped end to end for a range of e-commerce clients in a fast, deadline-driven shop
- Traced a 25-second checkout — quietly costing a client sales — to a single missing database index and got it under one second
- Mentored a junior engineer on writing real automated tests
Full Stack Engineer
B&H Photo & Video / New York, NY
- Worked to raise the engineering bar on one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the US
- Introduced containerized dev environments and real automated testing
- Built GraphQL APIs on a graph database for a next-generation platform effort
- Mentored engineers outside my own team on how to test their work
Founder
DashOnSite / New York, NY
- Founded and ran a computer-services business — IT support, networking, and web development for home and office clients
- Ran every part of it, from finding clients to deploying systems to building their websites
- Taught myself full-stack development on the job — the foundation my whole software career was built on
Systems Administrator & IT Technician
NYC Dept. of Education / New York, NY
- Started as a student helping with IT and grew into the sole administrator for two schools — 3,000+ users and 1,500+ devices
- Built the backbone: redundant servers and storage, backup systems, and PXE/WDS imaging automation that cut lab provisioning from hours to 15 minutes
- Mentored a student IT team that actually ran the helpdesk
Skills
Cloud & Platform Architecture
AWS Control TowerOrganizationsAFTECSLambdaRDS / AuroraDynamoDBElastiCacheKinesisRedshiftAthenaGlueVPCRoute 53CloudFrontWAFWireGuardIAMKMS
IaC, CI/CD & DevSecOps
Terraform / OpenTofuCustom TF ProvidersCloudFormationAnsiblePackerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsGiteaOIDCRenovateDockerCheckovtflintInspectorCIS
AI-Assisted Operations
Claude / Claude CLIAmazon BedrockMCPCustom Agent SkillsCursorAI Incident DiagnosticsSelf-Healing Automation
SRE & Observability
GrafanaPrometheusCloudWatchELK / OpenSearchGraylogAppDynamicsPagerDutyMulti-Region FailoverBlue/GreenDORA24/7 On-Call
Languages, Data & Governance
GoPythonTypeScriptBashPostgreSQL / AuroraMongoDBMySQLElasticsearchRedisNeo4jGraphQLConsulVaultSCPsActive DirectoryStripeTwilio
Certifications & Open Source
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (2021, expired 2024)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (2018, expired 2021)
Cisco CCNA (2011, expired 2014)
CompTIA A+ (2008, lifetime)
Open Source
Terraform AWS Provider — upstream contributor (PR #24685)
Education
B.S. Computer Information Systems — DeVry University, New York
Additional CS Coursework — Queens College, New York