Application Engineering
Java systems built for the real world.
Spring Boot microservices, secure REST and GraphQL APIs, Kafka ingestion, data consistency, resilience patterns, and test automation.
Senior Software Engineer Cloud Platform Engineer
I design cloud-native applications and platform foundations that turn secure delivery, resilient operations, and infrastructure standards into repeatable engineering capabilities.
01 · Engineering profile
Application engineering, platform work, observability, and agentic AI in one portfolio section.
Application Engineering
Spring Boot microservices, secure REST and GraphQL APIs, Kafka ingestion, data consistency, resilience patterns, and test automation.
Platform Engineering
Reusable Terraform, Helm promotion controls, Kubernetes policy, GitOps workflows, and cloud foundations that reduce drift.
SRE & Observability
RED/USE metrics, SLO dashboards, Kafka lag, traceable logs, automated runbooks, and incident-learning loops.
AI-Assisted Engineering
Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, MCP tools, knowledge-enhanced agents, risk summaries, API deprecation analysis, and RCA preparation.
02 · Measured impact
Quick evidence of scale, reliability, and delivery improvements.
Helm compatibility and promotion guardrails supporting safer delivery across EKS and OpenShift estates.
Enterprise workloads across highly available Kubernetes, Rancher, and EKS clusters.
Parallel execution and dependency caching improved CI/CD throughput without weakening controls.
Observability, correlation IDs, and AI-assisted runbook triage accelerated incident resolution.
03 · Selected work
Three readable examples instead of a long landing-page narrative.
Enterprise release governance
Designed Helm compatibility and release controls for Kubernetes and OpenShift, including pre-release channels, upgrade checks, API deprecation awareness, and safer promotion practices.
Production reliability
Implemented autoscaling, disruption budgets, production-readiness checks, resource optimization, observability, and incident triage patterns for enterprise container platforms.
AI-assisted release engineering
Applied knowledge-enhanced agents to release notes, risk summaries, API deprecation deltas, Helm diffs, and incident-response preparation—improving readiness without removing human control.
04 · Experience
Roles, companies, and what changed at each step.
Turnberry Solutions Inc. · Dallas, TX
CGI Inc. · Lafayette, LA
Magtech · Vienna, VA
Veridic Solutions · New York, NY
Intelnet · Hyderabad, India
05 · Toolkit
A compact breakdown of application, platform, cloud, delivery, reliability, and AI tools.
Java 7–21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate/JPA, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Resilience4j, Feign
Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift, Rancher, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Argo CD, Vault, Ansible
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, SAST/DAST, Testcontainers
Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Kibana, SLO/SLI dashboards, RCA automation
Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, MCP tools, grounded agents, model evaluation
06 · Operating philosophy
Security, observability, and automation with judgment.
06 · Operating philosophy
The most valuable platform is not the one with the most tools. It is the one that makes the right path easy, the risky path visible, and every production change explainable.
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runAsNonRoot: true
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
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07 · Credentials
Academic foundation plus verified engineering and AI learning.
Credentials
Troy University · Troy, Alabama
Problem Solving · Basic & Intermediate
Azure OpenAI · Foundry agents · MCP · model evaluation
08 · Testimonials
First-hand perspectives from people who have worked alongside me.
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