About

The Start

Folin Financial (acquired by Goldman Sachs)

Everyone has to start somewhere. Mine was a financial back-office role that turned into an unexpected doorway into technology. I taught myself enough to earn a seat at the table as a Junior UNIX Administrator — and never looked back. It's where I discovered a genuine love for automation and the satisfaction of making systems do the work for you. Solaris, Red Hat Linux, and a healthy respect for production environments were the early building blocks.

The Foundation

Verisign — Resolution Operations

If you've ever typed a .com or .net address into a browser, there's a good chance my work was involved. At Verisign I helped operate two of the 13 global root nameservers — a.root and j.root — and the DNS resolution infrastructure handling roughly 3 million queries per second worldwide. This is where I learned what it truly means to build and run reliable systems at scale. I also had the privilege of traveling the globe — London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and beyond — standing up datacenters and keeping the internet's critical infrastructure humming. It gave me a deep, firsthand understanding of how things actually work beneath the surface.

The Expansion

ID.me

ID.me is where I made the leap into cloud-native engineering at scale. I joined a fast-moving platform team and quickly found myself deep in the work of modernizing infrastructure — leading a full migration from AWS to GCP, building event-driven automation pipelines using EventArc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions, and going deep on HashiCorp's ecosystem with Terraform, Vault, and Consul. Kubernetes stopped being a buzzword and became the daily reality. Just as importantly, this role gave me a broader view of what it takes to run a technology organization — the people, the processes, and the tradeoffs that never show up in documentation.

The Pivot

CME Group

CME Group was a deliberate pivot — a return to the financial sector and a sharpening of focus. With GCP as the sole cloud platform, I was able to go deeper rather than wider, building expertise and earning the GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification along the way. Working within a highly regulated, operationally rigorous environment reinforced the discipline that large-scale financial infrastructure demands.

The Mastering

Wells Fargo

Today I'm a Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo, leading a team focused on modernizing one of the largest financial institutions in the world. The work centers on what I've always loved most — automation and integration through APIs — applied at a scale that genuinely matters. We're building the connective tissue that lets a complex, decades-old organization move faster and more reliably. It's the kind of challenge that draws on everything that came before it.