Employment
Neptune Consulting LLC, Buford, GA
11/2017 - Present, Founder / Principal Architect
Hands-on architect: I hire and train a small team, set coding standards, review code, and own
architecture and delivery for client platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP
- AI-native delivery
- Built an autonomous AI engineering agent and agent workflows that wrote 95%+ of ~3,900 commits
in 2026, gated by test coverage, linters, per-commit validation and PR review
- Built an AI-driven workflow that routes email, tickets and other unstructured inputs into assessment
and proposed actions, with deterministic boundaries, an audit ledger and human approval gates
- Reusable-packaging logistics company (food supply chain), 2019 - present
- Replaced a fragile Node.js back end with 7 enterprise services on Azure behind the customer ordering
portal, which moved ordering off email, fax and phone and now carries 85-90% of a nine-figure business
- Designed an enterprise API tier that kept the portal and its API contracts stable through two ERP
migrations, including Dynamics 365
- Added per-order pricing confirmation to the portal, targeting ~$70k/month in write-offs from customers
disputing their contracted rates
- Built bill-of-lading automation for inbound customer shipments (D365 side by a partner), reducing
manual data entry from 12 people to 2
- Key contributor to moving from an on-premises server closet to fully Azure-hosted within 18 months
- Fully automated CI/CD for services, API gateway, UI and static assets; led 2-4 engineers while
implementing alongside them
- MoneyNosh, personalized financial-education app, 2020 - present
- Architected and built the platform end to end: React front end; AWS (Cognito, Lambda,
DynamoDB, CloudFront) with infrastructure in CDK; GitHub Actions with OIDC deploys
- Built the configuration-driven lesson engine and the pipeline that publishes lesson content automatically
- Led 2-5 engineers over the life of the project; cut the production bundle by 72%
- Earlier engagements: out-of-home advertising analytics (months to seconds; 54 APIs on Snowflake and
Aurora); hospitality partner-integration strategy; SQL Server migrations to AWS and Azure (T-SQL up to
80x faster); hybrid cloud strategy for a large gold-mining operation
Equifax, Atlanta, GA
11/2024 - Present, SRE Lead
Site reliability and DevOps for fraud, identity and compliance data platforms on Google Cloud
- Led a team of up to four SREs across as many as five production platforms
- Built a mature AI-driven SRE workflow and the team's shared library of agent skills for Jira,
ServiceNow, Kubernetes and CI/CD triage, with cost routing of bulk work to cheaper models
- With a colleague, replaced a $100k/month SaaS platform with an in-house solution, saving ~$1M a year
- Took over a billing pipeline cold with a 25M-event backlog; fixed its bottlenecks and cut cost 90%.
It has run within ~1 second of real time for a year
- Led incident response and performance work for high-volume APIs and data pipelines (GKE, Istio,
Bigtable, Dataflow, Pub/Sub), including root-cause analysis and load testing
- Planned and ran regional disaster-recovery exercises across multiple production platforms
- Retired 60+ legacy services end to end with a reusable decommission workflow
- Migrated dozens of pipelines from HashiCorp Vault to Google Secret Manager, and services from
Jenkins to a standardized GitHub Actions platform
- Ran vulnerability remediation (SAST, SCA, container scanning) across 50+ services; led a
400+ repository compliance audit
- Took a GPU-backed ML embeddings service from first pipeline to production
11/2020 - 11/2024, Senior Architect
- Adapted a 25-year-old mission-critical application to a cloud-native architecture on GCP
- Improved batch processing 10x to protect business SLAs; improved developer test environment
performance 50x, saving the equivalent of two full-time developers
- Built an Angular front end on Jupyter APIs to integrate JupyterLab with operational data views
- Architect and engineer on the data operations UI platform: micro-frontends with configuration-driven
modules and feature-level entitlements
- Migrated from Oracle to Cloud SQL PostgreSQL; fixed long-standing memory bugs in a large legacy C++ code base
12/2019 - 10/2020, Senior Architect / Lead SRE (contract)
- Built a Jenkins pipeline supporting 75+ internal applications on Kubernetes
- Saved $400k a year by replacing Docker Compose with a simple Makefile/Dockerfile solution
- Established a common AWS service platform (Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana) with the SRE team
- Coached teams on API architecture patterns and Kafka-based event-driven architecture
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), Atlanta, GA
7/2008 - 10/2017: Technical Advisor → Senior Technical Advisor → Director, Integration
Architecture → Senior Software Architect
- Director, Integration Architecture (2012 - 2014): built a team of 50+ to deliver the SOA-based migration
of a 50-year-old reservation system; owned the ESB, distributed-cache and hosting strategies;
optimized infrastructure for $2.5M+ in savings
- Led the API management strategy and vendor selection (Apigee) and the corporate RESTful services strategy
- Designed the partner integration architecture behind integrations with leading car-rental, e-book and
restaurant-reservation partners, enabling immediate revenue uplift
- Created the corporate ESB strategy (JBoss Fuse) and distributed-cache strategy (GemFire); optimized the
ESB footprint to save $500k+ a year
- Technical lead on the secure payment and tokenization solution; upgraded application security to meet PCI
- Lead developer on the hospitality loyalty platform migration; introduced automated builds and testing,
git and agile practices across onshore and offshore teams
Earlier career, Atlanta, GA
- McKesson (contract), 2008: Senior Software Engineer: performance fixes, CI and automated releases
- Reflex Security, 2006 - 2008: Senior Software Engineer: SSH2-based networking layer, network access control for IPS
- The DBA Group / SITA, 2005 - 2007: Senior Consultant: co-architected the Global Customs Gateway for airline customs reporting
- GuardedNet, 2003 - 2005: Senior Software Engineer: event-driven (SEDA) collection architecture for network security management
- Retek, 2001 - 2002: Software Engineer III: C++ calculation engine and caching layer (20x speedup) for predictive retail software
- Silverpop, 2000 - 2001: Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead: content management and a distributed file system scaling past 100M files
- GenRad, Computing Solutions, S2 Systems, 1997 - 2000: developer, team lead and support engineering roles