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Experience

Infrastructure Engineer July 2024 - Present @ Python Software Foundation (Remote)
Senior Linux Systems Administrator Feb 2022 – July 2024 @ O’Reilly Auto Parts (Remote)
- 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 Mar 2018 – Feb 2022 @ Labcorp (Remote)
- 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

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 May 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 Jan 2022 – Feb 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

Litestar Maintainer - 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 Powerful utilities for Python - 2023 - Present @ Jolt Organization
- 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.

Languages: Python, Bash, Java, Powershell
Frameworks: Litestar, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Jinja2, OAuth, PostgreSQL, TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, SQLAlchemy
Tools: 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: Kubernetes, Rancher (Harvester, k3s), Jenkins, Terraform, Rust

Bachelor of Computer Science, Auburn University, 2026 (expected)
Associate of Science in Computer Science & Programming, Wallace State Community College, 2023 (expected)