Monkey Barten

Built Walmart's Internal Developer Platform on Backstage and Crossplane, enabling thousands of engineers to spin up compliant cloud infrastructure via self-service templates with HIPAA and security controls baked in. Led Walmart Health's LLMOps platform and observability (prompt logging, token cost tracking, latency dashboards) and drove FedRAMP alignment using NIST 800-53 controls via OPA and Ope

Led the migration of a 20-year-old C++ payments monolith to Kubernetes-based microservices, designing Golden Paths and deployment templates that enabled thousands of deployments per day. Embedded PCI-DSS compliance into CI/CD pipelines, built self-service infrastructure for frontend teams with Node.js and Docker, and designed a unified GraphQL API for Braintree used across 50+ global markets.

Rewrote the Datadog Agent core from Python to Go, cutting memory footprint by about half and removing CPU ceiling issues that limited large enterprise customers. Improved operational efficiency by setting up Terraform and Jenkins Golden Paths that reduced staging environment provisioning from hours to under 15 minutes and maintained ingestion latency under one second even as data volume tripled us

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin from 2009 to 2013.

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin (2009–2013).