Technology is not the destination; it is the fuel. If a machine can do it, a human shouldn't have to. Building paved roads for engineering teams — shifting organizations from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. U.S. Army veteran operating at the intersection of human potential and technical scale.
Focus Areas
- Infrastructure & Resilience — Self-healing ecosystems managing 10,000+ nodes. Autonomous remediation replacing manual interventions.
- AI & Automation Execution — Event-Driven Ansible and Agentic AI convergence. Closed-loop remediation via air-gapped DSPy execution. Telemetry is the action.
- Automation ROI — Manufactured hours and impact avoidance tracking. Reliability as a financial asset with measurable executive visibility.
Skills
- Automation & Orchestration: Python, Ansible, AWX / Automation Controller, Bash, Git, Node.js
- Network Architecture: BGP, Core Routing, Cisco, IPv4/IPv6, LAN/WAN, QoS
- Security & Telemetry: DevSecOps, Splunk / Datadog, Wireshark, Network Security, IAM
Experience
- Network Automation Engineer — U.S. Bank: Architected closed-loop observability; scaled automation to 80% of NOC operations; built enterprise Ansible/Python modules; mentors SRE rotational engineers.
- U.S. Army — Signal / Communications: Mission-critical secure telephony and network operations during combat deployments. Supervised teams of up to 30.
- Earlier roles: Network Engineer, Systems Integration Engineer, Project Manager, Telecommunications Consultant (Black Box, NEC Corporation, Straight Line Communications, Insight Global, DCi LLC).
Field Deployments
Stanford NLP / DSPy — Open Source Contribution (PR #9473)
Added native on-device LLM inference to DSPy — two new BaseLM adapters: AppleFoundationLM (macOS 26+ constrained decoding + tool-calling) and AppleLocalLM (MLX / HuggingFace on Apple Silicon). Full DSPy optimizer workflows at sub-100ms latency with zero API cost. 69 unit tests + 11 macOS integration tests.
S.O.N.I.C. — SIP Observation and Network Inspection Console
AI-powered VoIP/SIP diagnostic tool. Analyzes pcap files via a dual-model DSPy + Ollama pipeline for codec-aware quality metrics, SIP-RTP correlation, and intelligent issue detection. Runs as an MCP server for Claude Desktop and autonomous network engineering workflows. Stack: Python, DSPy, Ollama, MCP, Scapy, Wireshark.
AWX Ansible Log Viewer
Fast terminal UI for exploring AWX/Ansible execution logs. Keyboard-driven navigation with multi-select filtering across hosts, tasks, and statuses. Stack: Python, Ansible, AWX, prompt_toolkit.