Dates: Nov 2025 – Present
Leading platform engineering team managing enterprise OpenShift environments serving internal customers. Combining hands-on infrastructure automation with team leadership, incident coordination, and community enablement.
Highlights#
- Lead platform engineering team managing enterprise OpenShift environments, ensuring N-1 platform availability through strategic upgrades and lifecycle management.
- Architect and develop CLI tooling in Go for infrastructure automation, managing HPE iLO and OneView operations including server profile templates, configuration validation, and hardware deployment workflows.
- Orchestrated multi-team incident response for critical infrastructure issues, leading engineers across teams through complex technical investigations with NetApp, Red Hat, and Microsoft support to final RCA.
- Mentor team members on Kubernetes architecture, platform operations, and automation best practices; foster culture of continuous improvement through direct, constructive feedback in regular 1:1s.
- Lead Ford Kubernetes User Group bi-quarterly, delivering platform updates, demonstrating best practices, and facilitating vendor workshops to elevate organizational platform expertise.
- Leverage GitHub Copilot daily with repository-specific custom agents and instruction files to accelerate development, refactoring, and prototyping of platform automation.
- Partner with application teams on workload design, resource allocation, and platform architecture decisions to ensure scalable, reliable deployments.
- Maintain 24/7 on-call responsibility as primary and escalation engineer for platform availability and incident resolution.
Stack#
OpenShift, Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, Tekton, HPE iLO, HPE OneView, RHEL, Bash, Google Cloud, GitHub Copilot