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I build sovereign, secure enterprise AI platforms for production agentic systems.

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead enterprise AI architecture where I can build secure, sovereign agentic AI platforms, establish Responsible AI governance, and turn business priorities into production-ready multi-cloud systems.

At ArmyKnife Labs, I build a sovereign multi-agent AI trust platform that moves autonomous AI from security review to production approval. I defined its enterprise reference architecture and hand-engineered approximately 290K lines of Rust and TypeScript across cryptographic provenance, isolated runtimes, policy enforcement, and multi-cloud orchestration.

I designed signed, tamper-evident audit chains for agent actions, hardware-isolated microVM execution, and a zero-trust agent-to-agent mesh spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP. I also built fleet observability and model evaluation systems processing more than 3M agent events.

My work combines Responsible AI governance, security/privacy controls, LLMOps, supply-chain security, and production platform engineering. I translate executive AI priorities into secure, scalable, cost-conscious reference architectures and enforceable operating standards.

Across 30 years in infrastructure and IT, I've led cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, and security architecture for organizations including Improving, Ren Inc., InfoSys, Pearson Education, Pareto Intelligence, HomeGauge, Ahead, First Data, and Mosaic. I've delivered measurable gains in provisioning, deployment reliability, performance, resilience, compliance, and cloud cost efficiency.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal AI Platform Architect

Current

ArmyKnife Labs

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Defined enterprise AI reference architecture for a sovereign multi-agent AI trust platform, hand-engineering ~290K lines of Rust and TypeScript. Designed cryptographic agent tool-call signing, hardware-isolated execution, and zero-trust service mesh across multi-cloud.

Rust TypeScript Kubernetes AWS Azure GCP Istio Micro VMs Verifiable Credentials PKCS11 SBOMs CycloneDX SPDX OSV.Dev Trivy Semgrep Gitleaks SQLite FTS5 Neo4j Qdrant LLM Evaluation Red Teaming Hugging Face

Principal Consultant

Improving

Jun 2025 - Jul 2026 (1 year 1 month)

Built Kubernetes traffic-capture proxy sidecar and redesigned microservices architecture, improving performance ~25%. Implemented monitoring, observability, and self-service CI/CD framework, improving system performance ~30%.

Kubernetes NodeJS CI CD Monitoring Observability Microservices

Lead DevOps Engineer

Ren Inc.

Oct 2024 - Mar 2025 (5 months)

Led design and operation of enterprise Kubernetes platforms with Istio service mesh across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux, cutting deployment failures 87% and MTTR 85%.

Kubernetes Istio AWS Azure GCP ArgoCD Flux Prometheus Grafana Jaeger OpenTelemetry mTLS SOC2

Cloud Security Architect

InfoSys Ltd.

Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 (6 months)

Architected secure Kubernetes environments on GCP for 12+ enterprise clients, achieving zero breaches and 100% compliance. Built automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform, reducing vulnerable deployments 94%.

GCP Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions Istio Binary Authorization Anthos Security CI CD

Cloud Software Engineer

Pearson Education

Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 (5 months)

Designed Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and self-healing AWS infrastructure. Automated database backup and recovery, implemented HashiCorp Vault secret management, and added Terratest framework reducing production incidents 40%.

AWS Prometheus Grafana Terraform HashiCorp Vault Terratest AutoScaling Database Backup

Freelance DevOps Architect

Armyknife LLC

Aug 2023 - Nov 2023 (3 months)

Led migration of on-premises workloads to AWS, cutting infrastructure cost 35%. Implemented blue-green zero-downtime releases and cross-region disaster recovery with Lambda-based optimization.

AWS Lambda Blue Green Deployment Disaster Recovery Cost Optimization

Lead DevOps Engineer / Cloud Manager

Pareto Intelligence

Mar 2021 - Jul 2023 (2 years 4 months)

Built core data-architecture and ingestion platform using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Owned DevSecOps end-to-end and migrated org from Jenkins to GitLab, codifying infrastructure-as-code standards.

AWS Step Functions Lambda Kubernetes Terraform SAM Gitlab DevSecOps Netsparker Burp suite ETL

DevOps Architect

HomeGauge

Apr 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Delivered production Kubernetes on AWS with Terraform, Istio, and GitLab CI, establishing multi-cluster service-mesh foundation.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Istio Gitlab CI

Principal Kubernetes Solutions Architect

Ahead LLC

Oct 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 6 months)

Led Medtronic's digital transformation onto Azure AKS with Istio, enabling HIPAA-compliant microservices across 75+ services. Built custom Istio enforcement plugins with Azure Active Directory for granular access control.

Azure AKS Istio Kubernetes HIPAA Azure Active Directory Microservices

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer

Here Technologies

Mar 2017 - Oct 2017 (7 months)

Designed Kubernetes clusters with kops and trained teams on Kubernetes and Terraform, standardizing infrastructure-as-code practice.

Kubernetes Kops Terraform Infrastructure as Code

Systems Engineer / DevOps Engineer

First Data Corp.

Jul 2014 - Feb 2017 (2 years 7 months)

Architected migration of 850+ enterprise servers to AWS, cutting infrastructure cost $4.2M/yr. Re-architected Java/WebLogic stacks onto managed AWS services for 99.99% availability and 42% performance gains.

AWS IAM CloudFormation RDS Elasticache ALB Java Web Logic Disaster Recovery FedRAMP HIPAA

Sr. Linux Engineer / AWS Cloud Engineer

Mosaic

Sep 2011 - Jul 2014 (2 years 10 months)

Architected open-source VDI platform for 1,200+ users at 22% of commercial cost. Pioneered kernel-namespace and cgroup session isolation, and led early AWS adoption migrating VDI to EC2.