Based in Denver. Building cloud infrastructure at Spectrum, and building AI infrastructure tools on nights and weekends because I like understanding systems all the way down.
I build cloud platforms that get calmer as they scale.
Site Reliability Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer / ML infrastructure builder
Projects
Small tools, real systems, public receipts.
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Link
GitHub
Local, source-backed memory for AI agents: Markdown wiki, reviewed memories, CLI/MCP/skills, and a local viewer.
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Jawbreaker
GitHub
MiniCPM5-1B scam detection with a custom LoRA, 632-case eval suite, model, dataset, and Gradio Space.
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Picochat
GitHub
End-to-end small-language-model factory with dashboard training, honest evals, contamination checks, release gates, serving, and H100/H200 runbooks.
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Redline
GitHub
Local-first eval infrastructure that turns prompt logs into regression suites and blocks unsafe prompt/model changes in CI.
Hackathons
Short builds, real constraints.
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OpenAI Parameter Golf Challenge
Accepted non-record submissions. Worked through 8xH100 training throughput, resource contention, scheduling pressure, and hardware constraints at scale.
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Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon
Built Jawbreaker: a local scam-detection SLM for a real family safety problem, with MiniCPM fine-tuning, custom LoRA, a 632-case eval suite, published model, open dataset, and live Gradio Space.
Work
Production infrastructure, not slideware.
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Public Cloud Engineer, Spectrum
Cloud foundations work across AWS, Kubernetes, observability, automation, identity/access management, cost optimization, and on-call reliability. Guide architecture decisions, Terraform module work, deploy safety, and PR review across a small cloud infrastructure team.
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Cloud Systems Engineer IV, Spectrum
Kubernetes and Docker operations, Terraform/Ansible delivery patterns, ArgoCD GitOps, monitoring automation, Tailscale access, deploy safety, backup/restore, capacity planning, and stateful workload reliability on RDS Aurora.
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Cloud Systems Engineer II/III, Spectrum
Python and Bash automation, Helm and GitLab CI/CD, AWS best-practices training, and infrastructure tooling proofs of concept.
Systems
Things I like working on.
Platform
- Kubernetes and EKS operations
- AWS Organizations, IAM, VPC, DNS
- Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm
- GitOps and CI/CD delivery patterns
Reliability
- Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
- Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch
- Alert quality and SLO/SLA management
- Incident response and post-incident automation
Identity & cost
- SSO, Cognito, Entra ID, SCIM
- Tailscale and access reviews
- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps
ML infrastructure
- GPU clusters and eval pipelines
- MCP tooling
- Model and prompt release gates
Education
Short version.
- MS in Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
- MBA in Global Leadership, Colorado Technical University.
- AWS SysOps Certified. Certified Kubernetes Administrator.