Systems that stay up
From supercomputers to streaming radio to medical records, I build and run the infrastructure nobody notices until it breaks, and I make sure it doesn't.
Where I've been
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2025–2026
Transcat · Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Folded several acquired companies' infrastructure into Azure and AWS with zero downtime, and cut $300k a year in unused spend.
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2024–2025
University of Rochester · Systems Engineer 3
Kept the Epic medical records system running day to day for UR Medicine, a 20,000-employee health system, and helped migrate it from IBM AIX to Red Hat Linux.
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2022–2023
Dell Technologies · Principal Systems Development Engineer
Built performance models that predicted how customers' applications would run, and designed the server solutions to match.
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2016–2021
Citadel Cube · Senior Linux Engineer
Architected a multi-site high-availability cloud, wrote the company's SDLC from scratch and automated it with Jenkins CI/CD.
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2015
eBay · Technical Duty Officer / SRE
Ran incident bridges and release calls for eBay's production site, and mentored junior Linux and security engineers.
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2014–2015
NOAA · Supercomputer Linux Admin
Primary admin for a Cray supercomputer on Panasas storage: storage tracking, usage limits and security patches scheduled around the workload.
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2011–2014
iHeartRadio / Clear Channel · Senior Linux Engineer & Architect
Beat back an Anonymous DDoS in under three hours, built the streaming infrastructure and ran tech on-site at the festivals.
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2011
Walmart (via UST Global) · Hadoop HPC Deployment Engineer
Automated PXE/AutoYaST installs across 1,500+ servers and delivered nine weeks early.
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2008–2011
Rackspace · Core Systems Engineer → Senior Linux Support
Owned “CORE down” emergencies and kept enterprise clusters, Oracle RAC and Xen clouds healthy, 100+ escalations a day.
What I work with
Ungate your job search
Hiring has more gates than ever. Keep track of every one you knock on.
A job search tracker I designed and built end to end: drag applications from prospect to offer, keep contacts, salary and next steps in one place, and share your board with a coach or recruiter.
- Works offline in the browser and syncs when you're back online
- Unemployment work search log that follows state rules, printable by benefit week
- Passwordless sign-in, revocable sharing, full export anytime
- Free for your first 30 applications, then a one-time pass: no subscription, no saved credit card
The Child Safety Protocol
A Practical Guide to Protecting Kids Online and Beyond
Coming soonMost child safety advice is built for a world that no longer exists. This book treats family safety like an engineering problem: a clinical, blueprint-level manual for hardening your family's environment against modern exploitation, before a failure happens.
- Layered, structural boundaries around gaming, messaging and AI platforms
- Defense in depth for parents, not just another parental-control app
- Written by a systems and cybersecurity engineer, not a fear merchant
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