About
Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 18 years building and operating infrastructure. I've gone from sole sysadmin for 3,000 users to leading a platform team managing 100K+ resources across AWS.
Experience
Founder & Principal Consultant
Aronov Ventures / Remote
- Founded an infrastructure + AI consulting studio delivering cloud architecture, IaC, and AI integration for clients
- Architect and ship production AWS platforms — multi-account Control Tower, Terraform, and keyless OIDC CI/CD
- Build full-stack web and serverless AI features end to end (Astro, Go on Lambda, Anthropic Claude)
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Decomposed monolithic Terraform into reusable modules, reducing plan time by 60%
- Integrated AI tooling with read-only AWS access for automated infrastructure diagnostics, accelerating root-cause identification during production incidents
- Architected modular platform provisioning ~10K resources per environment across 6 production environments (100K+ total)
Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Replaced a 3-day manual release train with same-day self-service CI/CD (~30 min per environment) across 6 environments
- Deployed AWS Control Tower + AFT — self-service account vending via merge requests
- Scaled Terraform/IaC adoption to ~20 engineers across the org
- Designed AMI lifecycle using EC2 Image Builder with Inspector scanning and CIS hardening, producing compliance-ready hardened golden images
- Engineered Terraform-driven multi-region failover for active-active stateful services — executed during real regional failover events
Senior DevOps Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL (Remote)
- Built multi-region infrastructure for the production platform
- Contributed upstream fix to Terraform AWS Provider (PR #24685, merged same-day)
- Built Go-based on-call integration linking alerts to incidents and tickets automatically
Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
Tompkins Robotics / Orlando, FL (Hybrid)
- Created full production replica runnable on a single laptop, eliminating ~$45K/year in cloud dev-environment costs
- Designed and delivered air-gapped on-premise appliance sold as turnkey product to enterprise clients
- Deployed ELK/AppDynamics monitoring that surfaced production latency issues (e.g., a missing database index)
Full Stack Engineer
Nano Web Group / New York, NY
- Diagnosed and fixed 25-second checkout bottleneck for global e-commerce client — reduced to under 1 second
Full Stack Engineer
B&H Photo & Video / New York, NY
- Introduced Docker dev environments and TypeScript testing on one of the largest US e-commerce platforms
Founder
DashOnSite / New York, NY
- Built and ran the business end-to-end — client acquisition, networking, systems, and client websites
- Self-taught Node.js, Angular, and full-stack development on the job — the foundation that launched my software-engineering career
Systems Administrator
NYC Dept. of Education / New York, NY
- Sole IT admin for two schools — 3,000+ users, 1,500+ devices
- Built PXE/WDS imaging automation — full lab provisioning in 15 minutes
Skills
Cloud & Platform Architecture
AWS Control TowerOrganizationsAFTECSLambdaRDS / AuroraDynamoDBElastiCacheKinesisRedshiftAthenaGlueVPCRoute 53CloudFrontWAFWireGuardIAMKMS
IaC, CI/CD & DevSecOps
Terraform / OpenTofuCustom TF ProvidersCloudFormationAnsiblePackerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsGiteaOIDCRenovateDockerCheckovtflintInspectorCIS
AI-Assisted Operations
Claude / Claude CLIAmazon BedrockMCPCustom Agent SkillsCursorAI Incident DiagnosticsSelf-Healing Automation
SRE & Observability
GrafanaPrometheusCloudWatchELK / OpenSearchGraylogAppDynamicsPagerDutyMulti-Region FailoverBlue/GreenDORA24/7 On-Call
Languages, Data & Governance
GoPythonTypeScriptBashPostgreSQL / AuroraMongoDBMySQLElasticsearchRedisNeo4jGraphQLConsulVaultSCPsActive DirectoryStripeTwilio
Certifications & Open Source
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (2021, expired 2024)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (2018, expired 2021)
Cisco CCNA (2011, expired 2014)
CompTIA A+ (2008, lifetime)
Open Source
Terraform AWS Provider — upstream contributor (PR #24685)
Education
B.S. Computer Information Systems — DeVry University, New York
Additional CS Coursework — Queens College, New York