Experience

Application Developer · Dallas, TX

Developing software that improves efficiency, automation and user experience for shared and dedicated server rentals.

Support Technician

Led serverless projects and built core platform and network infrastructure for a cloud provider.

• Led serverless projects on Kubernetes that deliver web apps with continuous delivery.
• Wrote a Kubernetes operator, driven by APIs and webhooks, that manages an app across multiple regions from a single custom resource.
• Built the networking stack, combining eBPF offloading with VPP to protect traffic and provide additional network services.
• Created a generic cloud infrastructure platform with hourly billing from the ground up, with a public API so others can build on it.

Datacenter Technician · Contract · Dallas, TX

On-site datacenter work supporting IT infrastructure.

Chief Executive Officer, Aqueous Cloud LLC · Dallas, TX

Aqueous Cloud LLC, doing business as Anchored Hosting, provided managed and unmanaged infrastructure: virtual machines, dedicated servers and game server hosting in Dallas and Amsterdam on 10 Gb/s networks.

• Built a stateless REST controller for libvirt/QEMU hypervisors that provisions and manages VMs from a central control plane.
• Ran browser-based VM consoles through a fleet of dynamically managed noVNC/websockify proxies.
• Wrote XDP firewalls and A2S query caches to absorb DDoS and resource exhaustion attacks against game servers.
• Shipped a public looking glass and customer-facing sites in SvelteKit.

Datacenter Remote Hands · Freelance · Dallas, TX

Moved cabinets and decommissioned and recycled hardware.