About Me

Multidisciplinary software, security, and AI engineer with nearly a decade of experience across full-stack development, application security, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems. Experienced in building user-facing applications, AI agent orchestration frameworks, and secure, scalable platforms while applying a strong foundation in risk management and threat mitigation. Currently pursuing a B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance with a focus on AI security.

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Vulnerability Assessment

Identifying attack surface through scanning, enumeration, and analysis of web apps, network services, and TLS configurations. Building Bitprobe for CVE detection and exposure mapping.

Threat Detection

Monitoring and correlating events across endpoints, networks, and cloud systems. Experience with SIEM pipelines, IDS tuning, and enterprise telemetry.

Incident Response

Responding to incidents across enterprise environments—from endpoint compromise to infrastructure-level failures. Focused on containment and recovery.

Penetration Testing

Offensive testing across web apps and networks—recon, exploitation, and reporting. Combining industry tools with custom tooling built in Go and Python.

Defense & Hardening

Implementing layered defenses including firewalls, segmentation, endpoint protection, and hardened system configurations.

Web Application Security

Finding and exploiting web vulnerabilities including injection, auth flaws, and misconfigurations through manual testing and automated pipelines.

Web Development

Full-stack application development from API design to deployment. Building secure, scalable systems with modern frameworks, authentication, and cloud-native architecture.

Network Engineering

Designing and operating enterprise networks—routing, switching, VPNs, and segmentation across distributed environments.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Building scalable cloud systems using infrastructure-as-code, containers, and hybrid environments across AWS and Azure.

Work Experience

Founding Engineer AGIS Global Mar 2026 - Aug 2026 (company paused operations) Defined and enforced the company's security posture as the engineer solely responsible for it, covering IAM, endpoint detection, and secret management Built the company's initial technology stack solo as founding engineer: hybrid AWS/Linux infrastructure, internal platforms, and production software in Rust, Go, TypeScript, and C# Built a custom Rust orchestration layer for zero-copy IPC, removing Python GIL bottlenecks from high-throughput AI request handling Architected a bare-metal NVIDIA DGX Spark GPU cluster on a 400G RoCE RDMA fabric (Arista), with BGP border routing (Juniper) and spine-leaf switching (Cisco Nexus), purpose-built for AI inference workloads Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Ansible for bare-metal provisioning and Terraform for cloud failover, backed by a self-hosted observability and CI/CD stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Jaeger, GitLab)
Freelance Developer Self-employed Nov 2024 - Mar 2026 Provided full-stack web development and consulting services for small business clients, specializing in modern application development, branding, and tailored websites Built responsive web applications using Next.js, React Native, Nuxt.js, SvelteKit, and Laravel Engineered type-safe APIs with Node.js/Express, tRPC, GraphQL, gRPC, and Supabase Managed databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB, using Prisma ORM Deployed applications on AWS (RDS, Lightsail, Cognito), Vercel, Heroku, Linode, Netlify, and DigitalOcean Implemented authentication, CI/CD, CDN distribution, and real-time caching with Redis Utilized project-specific CMS systems including headless WordPress, Sanity.io, Strapi, and Contentful Managed full project lifecycle including continuous client prospecting, onboarding, architecture, deployment, and support
Systems Engineer DH Pace Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 Deployed, configured, and maintained Fortinet firewalls and VPNs with policy configuration and IPSEC tunneling Implemented CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection across enterprise endpoints Managed AWS infrastructure including S3, VPC, and IAM policies Administered VMware environments including vCenter, ESXi hosts, VM provisioning, and VM management across hybrid environments Configured and maintained Cisco Meraki cloud-managed networks, including SD-WAN solutions Supported Cisco and Aruba networking equipment across enterprise locations
Consultant Self-employed Mar 2022 - Jun 2023 Administered Microsoft Azure and AWS environments; deployed SentinelOne and various SIEM solutions Configured advanced network features including VLAN segmentation, routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), and QoS policies Managed and maintained network infrastructure, working primarily with Cisco, Juniper, and Aruba equipment Managed Windows Server and Linux environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and automated backups Provided comprehensive IT consulting services and delivered Tier 1–3 help desk support for small to mid-sized businesses
Systems Administrator BlueAlly Oct 2019 - Dec 2021 Led a year-long remediation effort to eliminate a botnet infection affecting nearly every endpoint at a client's branch office, containing the compromise before it could spread across the WAN to the client's other sites Managed multi-tier Fortinet Security Fabric architecture, utilizing FortiAnalyzer for monitoring, analytics, and log management, combined with performing regular preventative maintenance across Fortigate, FortiAP, and FortiSwitch Configured and maintained enterprise next-generation firewalls, protecting thousands of internal employees and assets for multiple clients throughout the country Audited and optimized firewall rules and ACLs to increase security and network throughput Deployed and secured site-to-site and remote-access IPsec/SSL VPN tunnels Administered Windows servers and environments, including Active Directory and Group Policy Objects for identity management and system-wide security configurations Configured automated event-driven triggers and alert notifications to cut incident response times down across customer environments Provided managed IT support and infrastructure management for multiple client environments, maintaining strict SLAs Deployed Riverbed Steelheads and Talari SD-WAN appliances across enterprise branch offices to optimize WAN performance, content delivery, and failover resiliency Administered VMware and Hyper-V virtualization environments, Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktops, and Veeam backup and disaster recovery operations Administered Linux servers, including package and update management, service configuration, and shell scripting
Technical Implementation Specialist Casey's General Stores Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 (3 month contract) Implemented the deployment of the new online ordering system across all Midwest retail locations Assisted with incident triage, ticket resolution, and remote troubleshooting Provided technical support for store systems and retail infrastructure Worked with deployment teams during rollout of new ordering systems
Datacenter Technician Microsoft Nov 2017 - Dec 2018 Diagnosed and triaged server and hardware failures across datacenter clusters Performed Cisco Nexus switch configuration and network troubleshooting Assisted with rack deployments and server cluster provisioning Maintained compliance with strict Microsoft SLAs for outages and hardware failures