Experienced Software Engineer with a strong focus on platform
engineering, DevOps, and secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
Specializes in building shared systems; including enterprise container
images, CI/CD platforms, and developer tooling that simplify workflows,
reduce duplication, and drive efficiency at scale. Proven track record
of delivering solutions used by thousands of engineers, leading complex
migrations, and embedding automation and security into core development
platforms.
Skills
- Programming/Scripting: Go, Python, Java,
JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Bash
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker,
Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift (ROSA), Multi-Arch Builds (ARM64/AMD64),
Helm, Sysbox.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECR, S3, IAM,
CloudWatch), Fargate, VPC Networking, Red Hat Openshift,
Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Puppet
- CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions,
Jenkins, Automated Vulnerability Remediation, Supply Chain
Security.
- Observability: Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch,
Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, CloudWatch
- System Design: JVM Tuning/Profiling, Linux System
Administration, Distributed Systems, API Design, LLM workflow
integration.
Experience
Lead
Software Engineer II, State Farm (Bloomington,
IL/Hybrid-Remote)
April 2024 - Present
Sole engineer responsible for transforming enterprise container image
management from ad-hoc community efforts into a governed,
multi-architecture product. Architected and delivered a standardized
base image ecosystem that now powers the majority of production
kubernetes workloads, reducing operational variance and accelerating
delivery across the enterprise.
- Enterprise Scale & Adoption: Scaled adoption
from zero to over 730 unique applications leveraging
official enterprise base images in 2025, used in over 108,000
image builds.
- Multi-Architecture & Optimization: Architected
a modular image suite supporting both Linux/arm64 and
Linux/amd64, enabling runtime cost savings. Implemented layered
inheritance to maximize caching, minimize storage footprint and transfer
costs.
- JVM Middleware Innovation: Delivered a tool
integrated into base image designed to optimize heap sizing and garbage
collection for JVM applications on Kubernetes, significantly improving
stability and reducing cognitive load for teams migrating from legacy
platforms.
- Security Automation: Slashed vulnerability
remediation time to under 24 hours (down from days) by
implementing automated patching pipelines.
- Observability: Built comprehensive
OpenSearch/Kibana dashboards to visualize adoption trends and track
legacy registry usage, enabling data-driven governance decisions.
- Developer Enablement: Created searchable,
RAG-optimized documentation to facilitate LLM-powered knowledge
retrieval for engineering teams.
Lead
Software Engineer, State Farm (Bloomington,
IL/Hybrid-Remote)
August 2020 - April 2024
Directed and enhanced Source Control Management (SCM) and CI/CD
capabilities, supporting over 10,000 engineers. Focused on pipeline
architecture, service resiliency, and development best practices.
- Shared CI/CD Service: Engineered a shared CI/CD
service using GitLab Runners, enabling users to leverage isolated,
secure container builds via Sysbox. By 2022, this system managed over
half of all pipelines at State Farm.
- Cloud Migration: Successfully migrated the CI/CD
infrastructure from on-premises to AWS in 2023, implementing robust
autoscaling to handle peak loads.
- Inner-Source Leadership: Launched Terraform modules
and container images for pipeline usage to accelerate development
velocity.
- Metrics & Observability: Developed a
cloud-based solution to collect CI/CD metrics, using Grafana to
visualize usage data for consumer-facing dashboards.
- Platform Migration: Transitioned users from legacy
Jenkins services to the shared GitLab CI/CD platform, providing custom
solutions for complex migration challenges.
Software
Developer, State Farm (Bloomington, IL)
June 2018 - August 2020
Collaborated with a team of seven engineers to maintain and enhance
proprietary tools for insurance product design, managing complex backend
validations and database integrations.
- Security Tooling: Developed an internal tool to
scan projects for vulnerable dependencies and provide automated upgrade
suggestions. This tool was adopted by the application security
team.
- Legacy Modernization: Maintained REST endpoints and
Java IMS services interacting with IBM MQ. Played a pivotal role in
migrating applications from a legacy WAS platform to Pivotal Cloud
Foundry (Postgres, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot).
IT/Systems Intern,
State Farm (Champaign, IL)
Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
- Developed a solution to assist with PCI DSS compliance audits as a
full-stack developer.
- Assisted business partners in writing recovery plans for business
continuity.
Education
B.S.
in Agricultural and Consumer Economics - Finance in Agribusiness
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fall 2014 - Spring 2018
- GPA: 3.55
- CS 225 - Data Structures
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