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Work experience
Infrastructure Engineer, Python Software Foundation, 2024 - Present
- Senior Linux Systems Administrator, O’Reilly Auto Parts, 2022 - 2024
- Managed petabyte-scale storage systems and computational infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations
- Enhanced system reliability and efficiency through maintenance of distributed systems using Ansible and Terraform
- Supported Ubuntu/RHEL servers with VMware, Containers, and IaC, optimizing server performance
- Introduced code reviews, pull requests, code formatting, linting, and testing to users
- IT Specialist, Labcorp, 2018 - 2022
- Automated routine tasks with Python, Powershell, and Ansible, reducing downtime and increasing efficiency
- Instituted new Active Directory GPO structure to facilitate automation
- Managed networks using Cisco ISE, Infoblox IPAM, Velocloud Orchestrator, and Meraki dashboard
Projects
- Internal Apps - Highly-available APIs for 1000+ users, 2022 - Present
- Architected and deployed a highly available internal store API and corresponding frontend
- Developed ChatOps interfaces and automation to reduce user friction
- Deployed load balancing and versioned multi-container deployments for application resiliency
- Homelab - vSphere, Active Directory, Linux, Docker, Azure, 2018 - Present
- Engineered systems around hardware constraints in an 8 node cluster
- Implemented Docker containerization with source-controlled configuration deployed with GitOps
- Built complex networks with VLANs for service segmentation, multi-user VPN, and IDS/IPS services
- Order Management System - Web app for pathologists’ test ordering, 2022 - 2022
- Deployed a multi-environment Flask web app with Docker, LDAP, OAuth authentication, and tiered permissions
- Engineered scalable deployment with NGINX, Gunicorn, and Docker
- Developing a reporting dashboard for national teams
Open Source
- Maintainer, Litestar - Asynchronous Python Framework for building APIs and Web Apps, 2023 - Present
- Contribute to the codebase for Litestar, ensuring its performance and capabilities
- Managed complex CI pipelines, including testing, linting, and deployment
- Collaborate on project roadmap and features, and maintain related projects like Polyfactory
- Provide assistance and guidance within the project’s community
- Steered Litestar organization projects, roadmap, and vision
- Maintained priorities and relationships with user and business sponsors
- Managed the project’s community, including contributors, users, and sponsors
- Maintainer, Jolt Organization - Powerful utilities for Python, 2023 - Present
- Split off popular internals from the Litestar organization projects to provide them en masse
- Maintained projects including a SQLAlchemy companion library, Python runtime type introspection utility library, and more
Skills
Languages: Python, Bash, Java, Powershell, Typescript, SQL
Frameworks: Litestar, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Jinja2, OAuth, PostgreSQL, TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, SQLAlchemy
Tools: Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Docker, LXD/LXC, NGINX, Ansible, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems: Windows Server (2012-2022), Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Server (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux)
Software: VMWare vSphere, ESXi, Proxmox, Hyper-V, GPO, ServiceNow, SCCM, Citrix
Currently Learning: Rancher (Harvester, k3s), Jenkins, Rust
Talks
One Year In: Insights and Inspiration from My PSF Journey Permalink
Conference Talk at PyTexas 2025, Austin, Texas
One Year In: Insights and Inspiration from my PSF Journey - Part Two Permalink
Conference Talk at PyCon US 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Behind the Scenes: PSF Infrastructure and How You Can Contribute Permalink
Conference Talk at EuroPython 2025, Prague, Czech Republic