Senior Engineering Manager

Building the Golden Path for Cloud Operations.

I specialize in Cloud Enablement, Agile Delivery, and FinOps—bridging the gap between "It Works" and "It Scales."

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By The Numbers

Measurable impact delivered in the last 24 months.

~$650k

Annual Cloud Savings

Driven by optimizing cloud capacity, reducing external service contracts, and improving forecasting for long-term spending agreements.

60%

Legacy Footprint Reduced

Modernized infrastructure by migrating databases to RDS, containerizing apps, and centralizing shared services like NAT gateways and operational tooling.

3x Faster

Recovery Time Objective

Reduced RTO from 12+ hours to <4 hours by implementing air-gapped, immutable backups and modernizing DR protocols.

4

Global Time Zones

Leading a distributed, asynchronous engineering culture across hubs in Boston, London, Budapest, and Panama.

6x

Core Value
Nominee

Consistently recognized (2018-2025) for "Cost Conscious" engineering. Including 6x Cost Conscious core value award nominee, and Techie Award winner for Cloud Spending.

20+

Database Systems

Modernized 20+ core service backends by shifting self-hosted EC2 databases to fully managed RDS & Atlas clusters, improving reliability and engineering velocity.

Professional Journey

Manager of Cloud Ops

EF Education First

Oct 2023 – Nov 2025

  • Cloud FinOps: By employing flexible cloud commitment strategies and consolidating vendor contracts, we successfully delivered approximately $650,000 in annual cost avoidance.
  • Internal Consulting: Architected a networking solution to neutralize the cost of Snowflake Business Critical by eliminating egress fees via VPC Peering.
  • Toolchain Strategy: Unified disparate dev tools (IDEs, Copilot, Security) into a cohesive ecosystem, saving ~$260k/yr.
  • Service Management: Modernized Service Desk to JSM & integrated CI/CD tooling for automated change tracking.

Staff Database Engineer

EF Education First

Mar 2022 – Oct 2023

  • Modernized 20+ core service backends by shifting self-hosted EC2 databases to fully managed RDS & Atlas clusters, improving reliability and engineering velocity.
  • Engineered Terraform modules to automate security baselines and compliance for accounts provisioned via AWS Control Tower.
  • Accelerated release velocity by overhauling database deployment pipelines within the CI/CD platform, reducing friction and failure rates for application developers.
  • Owned the long-term database strategy and presented Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) to leadership. Mentored remote EPAM contractors to ensure code quality and architectural alignment.

Senior DBA

EF Education First

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022

  • Served as the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all development and production database infrastructure across cloud providers, including: EC2/Azure VM-Hosted MS SQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB, and Azure SQL Database.
  • Executed deep-dive SQL tuning and strategic hardware scaling to optimize performance and delay costly upgrades.
  • Implemented enterprise-grade monitoring solutions to establish early warning capabilities, minimize Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), and simplify root cause identification.
  • Coordinated daily workflows for remote contractors, effectively scaling team output without increasing full-time headcount.

Database Administrator

EF Education First

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020

  • Transitioned legacy manual operations to modern DevOps framework.
  • Established first formal DB roadmap; Owned BI security/maintenance.

Data Engineer

EF Education First

Sep 2017 – Sep 2019

  • Developed highly available ETL operations for BI.
  • Administered Power BI tenant & supported data warehousing.

Data Warehouse Engineer

Arcadia Healthcare

Jan 2015 – Sep 2017

  • Designed scalable healthcare data platforms using Agile.
  • Refactored complex stored procedures and SSIS packages, improving data processing speed and reliability.

Early Career

2012 – 2015

  • Software Developer: Lever Corps (2014-2015)
  • IT Analyst: Crane & Co. (2012-2014)

Technical Arsenal

The ecosystem of tools, strategies, and platforms I use to drive excellence.

Cloud Architecture

AWS Control Tower Multi-Account Landing Zones Serverless (Lambda/API GW) ECS/ECR Containers Multi-Cloud (Azure/GCP)

Automation & IDP

Terraform (Expert) AWS CDK GitHub Actions CI/CD "Golden Path" Templates Self-Service Platforms

Data Modernization

Performance Tuning RDS MongoDB Atlas Snowflake DocumentDB

Security & Governance

Wiz (CSPM) IAM Policy as Code GDPR & PCI Scope Scalr Governance Secure by Default

Network & Reliability

Cloudflare/Route53 VPC Peering Aviatrix VPN DR Strategy Air Gapped Backups

Strategic FinOps

Archera Commitments Spend Forecasting Vendor Rationalization Resource Rightsizing AWS Marketplace

Service Operations

Jira Service Mgmt (JSM) Atlassian / Confluence GitHub Actions ECS/ECR CloudWatch & Site24x7 Operations (AWS SSM)

Technical Leadership

Global Team Mgmt (4 TZ) Agile Transformation Contract Negotiation Hiring & Growth Cross-Functional Strategy Techie Award: Coaching

Languages

Python PowerShell T-SQL (Expert) HCL Bash/Shell

Education

Bachelor of Science

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Double Major: CS & Business Admin | Minor: Info Systems

2015

Information Technology

McCann Technical High School

2 Years Specialized Vocational Training

North Adams, MA | 2009

Recognition

  • Techie Award: Cloud Spending

    EF Education First

    2025 Winner

  • Techie Award: Coach of the Year

    EF Education First

    2022 Winner

  • Cost Conscious Nominee (6x)

    EF Education First

    2018 - 2025

  • Rookie of the Year

    Arcadia Healthcare Solutions

    2016

Consulting

Running a business, not an IT department?

I help owners who are tired of chasing passwords, broken reports, and surprise bills. Think of it as a calm, technical co-pilot you can borrow when things feel messy.

  • Sort out email, domains, and who actually owns what.
  • Be the web person for sites, DNS, and basic hosting choices.
  • Handle on-prem headaches: printers, Wi-Fi, switches, small servers and backups.
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