Experience

dunnhumby, Cincinnati, OH ☸ March 2024 - Present Link to heading

Senior Platform Engineer (promoted from Platform Engineer, March 2026)

Sole infrastructure owner for a production AI platform on Kubernetes, provisioned and managed with Terraform and Helm. I handle deployments, monitoring, and incident response end to end.

  • Built and own one of dunnhumby’s earliest production AI applications as a sole contributor. What started as a side-of-desk prototype grew into a fully deployed product with ~40 active users and buy-in up to the CTO and CEO.
  • Designed and built the application layer on top of that infrastructure: agentic tool-calling with LangGraph, model serving with vLLM, and a Chainlit frontend with custom JSX elements.
  • Multiple business units have come to me directly to build AI prototypes for their teams.
Datacrate.io, Cincinnati, OH ☸ September 2023 - January 2024 Link to heading

Co-Founder & CTO

Co-founded an early-stage startup building privacy-centric personal data access using the Solid protocol. Owned every technical decision from architecture through implementation as the sole engineer.

  • Designed prototypes for ingesting personal data into knowledge graphs, using the Solid protocol to allow for RAG querying with LLMs
  • Built the query layer to traverse the graph with LLM generation
  • Pitched to investors and iterated on the prototype based on user interviews
Tangram Flex, Dayton, OH ☸ January 2022 - September 2023 Link to heading

DevOps Engineer (Full-time Aug 2022 - Sep 2023, Intern Jan 2022 - Aug 2022)

Owned a production GitLab instance on Kubernetes supporting 100+ developers on a $95M defense contract.

  • Worked directly with a coalition of external defense contractors on a joint government program to fix their CI/CD practices
  • Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform across multiple environments
  • Extended the product’s Helm chart to cut down on manual ops work
Cyber@UC, Cincinnati, OH ☸ January 2022 - December 2022 Link to heading

Head of Lab

Deployed, configured, and maintained Teleport for access management across the club’s infrastructure. Built and maintained the rest of it on on-prem Kubernetes and Google Cloud, with Terraform, Helm, and Flux handling GitOps deployments.

City of Centerville, Centerville, OH ☸ June 2019 - August 2021 Link to heading

Information Technology Intern

Supported software deployment and maintenance across city facilities and the police department. Wrote group policies to standardize configs and automate rollouts.

Skills Link to heading

  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, AWS, Google Cloud, Teleport, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana, Linux
  • Languages: Python, Go, Bash/Shell, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL
  • AI & ML: LangChain, LangGraph, vLLM, RAG architectures, agentic tool-calling systems, knowledge graphs, MCP
  • Frameworks: NextJS, Flask, Chainlit, FastAPI

Certifications Link to heading

Education Link to heading

University of Cincinnati ☸ Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Link to heading
  • Graduated April 2023
  • GPA: 3.61
Sinclair Community College ☸ Associate of Science in Secure Systems Administration Link to heading
  • Graduated May 2021
  • GPA: 3.5