$ cat about.md
About
Senior Site Reliability Engineering leader with 16 years of technology experience, including over a decade in SRE and operations leadership. I’ve directed company-wide incident response, automated processes to reduce toil, and helped drive service availability toward 99.99%.
I’m skilled at building and mentoring high-performing teams, transforming organizations toward modern SRE practices, and delivering reliable systems in complex socio-technical environments — the kind where the runbook, the org chart, and the on-call rotation all matter equally.
Currently at Early Warning, I lead Release Engineering and DevOps — transforming how we plan, intake, and communicate releases. Before that, I spent eight years at Workday climbing from operations engineer to SRE manager and senior IC, with a lot of major incidents, postmortems, and automation wins along the way.
Off the clock I run a Talos/Kubernetes homelab on GitOps, write at nerd.dad, and build tools like observability agents and cluster visualizers — because the best leaders still read diffs.
$ git log --oneline -- career
Deploy History
Career changelog — each role a release, hopefully with fewer breaking changes over time.
Senior Manager of Release Engineering
Early Warning — PAZE
commit 0007 · deployed
- Lead Release Engineering and DevOps teams, driving cross-functional delivery and operational excellence
- Transformed Release Engineering to Scrum — improved collaboration, delivery planning, and execution
- Built a centralized work intake portal that automated request management and reduced ad hoc interruptions
- Partnered with PMO leadership to align OKRs and Program Increment initiatives with engineering execution in Jira
- Developed Jira and Microsoft Teams automation for real-time deployment and release communications
- leadership
- release-engineering
- devops
- agile
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Workday
commit 0006 · deployed
- Designed automated documentation systems with MkDocs and custom Python modules, reducing manual upkeep
- Built integrations across multiple tools via APIs to surface incident data more effectively
- Served as primary escalation point for high-impact incidents, driving resolution of business-critical outages
- sre
- python
- incident-response
- automation
Manager of Site Reliability Engineering
Workday
commit 0005 · deployed
- Directed company-wide major incident response, coordinating cross-functional teams and reducing MTTR
- Designed and implemented automated incident management pipelines, streamlining escalation and triage
- Mentored and developed SREs, fostering a culture of reliability, innovation, and proactive problem-solving
- Partnered with engineering and product owners to improve system resilience and eliminate toil
- leadership
- sre
- incident-response
- automation
Associate Manager of Site Reliability Engineering
Workday
commit 0004 · deployed
- Led organizational transformation into a modern SRE practice with a focus on reliability engineering
- Empowered engineers through training and process improvements, reducing deployment risks and manual work
- leadership
- sre
- transformation
Operations Team Lead
Workday
commit 0003 · deployed
- Served as lead during major incidents, ensuring rapid resolution and clear communication
- Streamlined incident response processes, reducing time-to-detect and time-to-resolve
- Mentored junior engineers, elevating team technical and operational capabilities
- operations
- incident-response
- leadership
Operations Engineer
Workday
commit 0002 · deployed
- Triaged and resolved production incidents across customer-facing environments
- Built Slack automations to reduce administrative toil and accelerate response
- Contributed to deployment reliability through reviews and continuous improvements
- operations
- automation
- incident-response
Network Operations Center Engineer
Robert Half
commit 0001 · deployed
- Monitored and ensured network availability for field offices nationwide
- Coordinated with ISPs and vendors to troubleshoot and resolve outages
- Managed backup systems and performed datacenter tape rotations
- noc
- networking
- operations
$ kubectl get highlights -A
Highlights
Projects, writing, and OSS — press / to filter.
nerd.dad ↗
2024Blog, homelab docs, and runbooks — SRE writing, GitOps manifests live elsewhere, prose lives here.
- blog
- homelab
- sre
- mkdocs
Talos Linux, Flux, Longhorn, and a full observability stack — production patterns at home scale.
- kubernetes
- gitops
- talos
- flux
Hearth ↗
2025Godot-powered 3D homelab visualizer with an agent bridge — because kubectl get pods isn't immersive enough.
- godot
- kubernetes
- oss
SRE Today 2025 ↗
2025Notes from the field — what SRE looks like when AI, platform teams, and pager duty all show up to the same meeting.
- sre
- talks
- writing
$ cat /etc/stack.conf
Skills & Stack
status: currently_optimizing
- release engineering & DevOps delivery
- Scrum transformation & PI planning
- Jira / Teams release automation
- AI-assisted tooling
Platform & Delivery
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Jenkins
- Git / GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Product Deployment
- Bash / Shell Scripting
Reliability & Observability
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Incident Response
- Grafana
- BigPanda
- Jira / JSM
- 99.99% Availability Targets
- Toil Reduction & Automation
Leadership & Practice
- Engineering Management
- Technical Product Management
- Agile / Scrum
- Mentorship
- Python
- Effective Communication
- Critical Thinking
$ ./homelab.sh --inspect
Homelab
Talos, Flux, and production-style patterns at home scale — live status when the cluster is reachable.Full docs on nerd.dad ↗
$ git log --oneline -5 -- clusters/main
- # waiting for GitOps feed…