Platform Engineer · Infrastructure Architect · Application Engineer · Software Developer
21+ Year Professional · Go · Terraform · OCI|AWS · Release Management · CI/CD · DevOps
Entrepreneurship · Engineering Excellency · Own Without Ego · Women In Tech · Disability Awareness

I design and operate infrastructure that saves money at scale and ships software faster. At Bit Fry Game Studios I reduced build pipeline costs from $17K/mo to $2K/mo — a $500K saving over 36 months that required an up front investment of $69,000 every three years. At Oracle I took a release pipeline from a 1-in-5 failure rate to 99.9% success. At WB Games I architected a Perforce migration projected to cut OPEX from $7M to $1M annually and workspace syncs from 4+ hours to 30 minutes — shelved before deployment due to studio in-house preferences over in-cloud. I assisted in operating and teaching during RailsGirlsRDU in 2014 to enable women in tech through building a rails twitter clone.

I'm available consulting that requires a retainer. I'll consider full time employment on a case by case basis. Cisco called me. Oracle called me. BitFry called me. WB Games called me. SurgePays called me. Beamable called me. Walter called me. You'll call me. Send me that message when you're ready to build. Sometimes, you need somebody who can comprehend complex systems and engineer software solutions that have been built on a 30 year career that started when I was 8 years old on our family MacOS 7 computer, programming AppleScript utilities to help my grandmother's printer reconnect to a faulty cable connection.

My retainer is priced as access to a return on infrastructure investment that has a documented, independently verifiable track record.

Go · Ruby · Bash · PHP · Terraform (HCL) · AWS · OCI · Swift · C++ · Web Design · Backend Systems
Docker · VMware vSphere/vCenter · Perforce Helix Core · GitHub Actions · GitLab Administration
CI/CD pipelines · Multi-region HA · Disaster recovery · IaC · MCP · RAG · Ollama
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Linux · macOS · Windows · TeamCity · Unreal Engine Build Pipelines

I'm open to a Senior, Staff, Principal, or Director-level Platform / DevOps / Release Engineering role. I am based in the United States and can work across time zones, languages and cultures.

Past titles: Senior DevOps|Release|Application Engineer · Network|Software|Application Engineer Target industries: Game studios · Cloud infrastructure · Fintech · Defense-adjacent · Corporate AI Adoption · Medical-adjacent

Target Comp: $150-$250K per year plus benefits Target Title: Senior Platform Architect · Senior DevOps Architect · Site Reliability Engineer

I have the capacity to build large and complex systems that can drive large growth and revenue due to my ability to understand complex systems and build software to solve challenges that yield in efficiency and accuracy in engineering execution. I'm happy to speak about these areas, should you reach out.

I provide consulting services for organizations that need my expertise but don't need me building full time.

Retainer: $3,000/mo · covers up to 20 hours per month (works out to 5 hours per week)

Additional hours: $200/hr · billed $40 per 12-minute units

After hours: $400/hr · billed $800 for the first 12-minute units, then $80 per 12-minute units between 11PM-6AM EST

Note: This is reasonable because of the impact that my neurological disorder has to reconcile with since the orphanage. It's never stopped me from building, but I've let my boundaries be crossed. Frivolous alarms can impact my disability, and this rate establishes clear boundaries within reason.

Minimum engagement: 1 month (longest was 17 years) · No maximum.

What I work on: web application development with AI · cloud infrastructure engineering · ai integration services (mcp, rag, or local llm) · strategic opportunities for growth, cost savings, and applied technology · multi-region cloud hosting solutions · CI/CD pipelines including rebuilds · perforce (p4) at scale · systems analysis · big data processing

Professionally, I've provided consulting services even while employed full time for the 21+ year professional tenure of my career. I respect all IP of each client and am able to appropriately compartmentalize responsibilities, follow-ups, and sub-projects. In full time engagements in the past, I've openly communicated with leadership about this service offering.

Each retainer covers 5 hours per week with extensions of up to 4 additional hours per week and are capped at 9 hours per day, therefore all consulting services range between $3,000-$7,000 per month.

Consulting services are provided Monday-Friday at either 8AM-9AM or 12PM-1PM or between 6PM-10PM EST. Weekends can be requested if services are needed.

My work has primarily advanced the organizations I've worked with from the inside — infrastructure, pipelines, and platforms — rather than direct end-user or customer-facing product work.

In several engagements I've served as the sole responder and then team leader for ransomware attacks and zero-day recovery incidents under confidentiality. As recently as late 2025 I provided this service. Response time and discretion are non-negotiable.

In 2015, Barron's Magazine covered Trakify — a stock-tracking platform I founded and led to market with a team of four. That same entrepreneurial instinct carried into PhoenixVault, a community platform I built and ran with three collaborators that grew to over 800 concurrent daily users. Both projects reflect how I approach engineering: I build things that work, find people who care, and ship. Leadership isn't something I seek out for its own sake — but when a problem is worth solving, I'll own it end to end.

Education: B.S. Computer Engineering Technology · 3.0 GPA · Wentworth Institute of Technology, 2011

I competed in 2005 SkillsUSA Maine Web Design competition, won the Gold medal in the Maine state competition and 8th in the national level out of 32 contestants. I got the highest score in three categories including the written assessment, scaffolding of process and richness of process. This is what drove the measurable results at OCI's release success - the processes that I introduced, yielded that 99.9% success in releases. Volunteering with MuggleNet gave me real world experience that prepared me for nationals. After nationals, S&W Publishing needed my services that started as an internship and progressed into a 17 year consulting career. Walter's recommendation got me into the college of my choice, Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, and from there I built up the IEEE Student Branch laboratory that underprivileged students were served by offering 24/7 after-hours access to a rebuilt laboratory in the attic of Dobbs Hall that is still in operation today in 2026.

I formalize problems I encounter into reusable packages rather than one-off scripts. Most of what's here started as a real operational need — something I hit at a client or in my own infrastructure — and became a proper package so others can use it too.

My professional career began in the data centers of Cisco's Boxborough Campus - infrastructure is built into my career since the first day I started professionally.

• reconcile-tfstate — recover corrupted Terraform state files; battle-tested at Beamable
• configure-ebs — mount/unmount AWS EBS volumes on EC2 with filesystem and fstrim options
• encrypted-luks-workspace — LUKS encrypted volumes for sensitive application configs
• extra-ssh-bash — run the same command across N Linux hosts simultaneously
• disk-speed — per-volume disk speed benchmarking from the command line

This workstation exists so I can run inference locally and privately — no API calls, no data leaving the machine. This is to provide services under regulatory clarity.

• summarize — aggregate a codebase into a single markdown file; chat with it via local Ollama LLM
• aigcm — AI-generated git commit messages from git diff, powered by Ollama qwen3:8b

I learned Go and built a handful of commercial and enterprise scale applications in Go (3 completed each over 10K lines). In addition to that, while learning Go, I built a handful of packages to help me master the patterns of Go. I use the packages I write. Making them open source, allows you to run them as well and work off from them as well.

• figtree — unified CLI flag / env / config file management
• sema — semaphore primitives for Go concurrency control
• checkfs — cross-platform filesystem path abstractions (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• bump — VERSION file management for CI pipelines
• verbose — logging package that censors secrets in stdout while writing them to disk
• igo — install and manage multiple Go versions without sudo

A decentralized OSINT document platform built on a custom reader / writer / search trio, all in Go. Indexed with full-text search via textee and integrity-verified with a Merkle tree package. GPL-3 / AGPL-3. Originally built to make the JFK files searchable; deployable for any document collection via a single CSV and a single binary.

In 1990 I was adopted to the United States of America. In 1997 I became a Naturalized US Citizen. In 2016, I married Dr Heather Ajzenman - a pediatric Occupational Therapist from Washington State University that has a peer reviewed study published on NIH. I have a strong professional career, and I support my wife's practice where I can and that is appropriate. I maintain professional contact with graduates of the RailsGirlsRDU weekend from North Carolina that I helped lead. Now that she has AI, she's been unlocked! What are you building? I'm here to help if you need some guidance.

Available for conversations. Reach out via GitHub. Join if you don't have one yet. We can collaborate and build incredible things together.

The Stranger: Sees "30-year career" and assumes resume padding.

The Reality: The math is exact. Born in '88, started coding in '96 at age 8. That is 30 years of logic-building. Being an ESL student (Romanian to English) while simultaneously learning a third language (AppleScript) is a level of cognitive development that usually signals a 1-in-10,000 talent.

The "Walter" Pivot: When a professional like "Walter" hired me at 17 immediately after a national SkillsUSA win, that wasn't just a "first job" — it was a professional validation that most engineers don't receive until their late 20s.

The Stranger: Sees "Project Shelved" and assumes a failure to deliver or a lack of corporate "buy-in."

The Reality: The architecture was complete, independently verifiable including Hogwarts Legacy credits, and projected to save $6M annually. I exited when the organization implemented contractor-mandatory leadership preference programs that I assessed as discriminatory and inconsistent with merit-based advancement — conduct now under active federal scrutiny. The failure wasn't technical. The code is portable. The savings are available to the next organization willing to deploy it.

The Stranger: Fixates on a 3.0 GPA as "average."

The Reality: A 3.0 earned while serving as IEEE President, interning at Harvard, and being recruited by Cisco before graduation isn't average performance — it's evidence of someone who was already building the industry while others were studying for it.