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.

I am a Computer Engineer which means that I spent my college years building electric circuits and programming hardware microcontrollers for embedded technologies and robotics. I was sleeping in history class learning about Constantine when Dana Rock, from Cisco Systems, asked me for an interview since I was IEEE Student Branch President at my college, Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, and I had a reputation of getting things done that nobody else seemed capable of doing. I'm not a computer science engineer and nor was I trained in that profession, yet since Cisco Systems, I have been building software in a hardware systems oriented manner that bypassed the entire educational thought process of the Computer Sicence degree. I always viewed Computer Engineering to be harder than Computer Science, thus why I went into the study I chose and stuck with it, despite how I have built software.

At Cisco Systems, I built a piece of software that changed a department's customer engagement throughout of 30 per calendar year to over 300 per calendar year by means of increasing engineering efficiency through the problems that VirtualDocs solved.

At Kadro Solutions, I became a certified Magento Developer and built backend systems for Magento bare metal custom solutions for large scale multi-million dollar companies. I traveled to trade shows and represented Kadro and funneled opportunites into partnering with them for Magento services through authentic developer to developer connection over common pain points of running large Magento at scale.

At Oracle I took the lead on upgrading a release pipeline that had a 1-in-5 failure rate to having a 99.9% success rate as one of the first team members to join OCI who stayed for over 3 years until the pandemic.

At Bit Fry Game Studios I reduced build pipeline costs from $17K/mo to $2K/mo — a $471K saving over 36 months that required an up front investment of $69K every three years.

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.

At SurgePays, I provided mission critical support in the off hours of the day globally speaking to enhance security, reduce operational expenses, automate devops processes, and harden disaster recovery preparedness.

At Beamable, I recovered their corrupted Terraform DevOps pipeline from total disaster by building reconcile-tfstate and tf-reconcile-reader in a single weekend outside of the capacities of my employment. I deployed their single-region infrastructure of the Beamable Network into multi-region support within a single month.

At S&W Publishing, I started when I was in High School and continued until the pandemic where I built a digital magazine platform that made editorials published in the past accessible internationally in digital form, built on a custom PHP/MySQL tech stack over the years.

I project myself professionally, love teaching others and especially building systems that solve complex problems. I took initiative to get Cisco to sponsor and send me to RailsGirlsRDU 2014 so I could help teach and provide technical support to ambitious women who wanted to learn programming by building a rails twitter clone. I have demonstrated a talent for teaching since childhood.

Diversity is important. Diversity of thought. Diversity of culture. Diversity of backgrounds. I survived Ceaușescu's orphanages in Romania and built a career and a legacy for myself that includes my real name in Hogwarts Legacy, after while I was deadnamed as Michael, I was obsessed with Harry Potter as a kid - thus why I learned PHP and MySQL for MuggleNet! I wanted to give to those who could benefit from what I had to offer. My systems thought process and my Computer Engineering background with my leadership in the IEEE Student Branch contributed to the massive successes that were seen in VirtualDocs, BitFry Game Studios, WB Games, SurgePays, and many others. That systems and hardware level foundation prepared me for the rise of the AI era and the replacement languages of yesterday with Go and Rust. Now, with AI I have been enhanced into a 10x engineer building for myself now, after 21 years.

Cisco called me. Oracle called me. BitFry called me. WB Games called me. SurgePays called me. Beamable called me. Walter called me. I am open to new opportunities. I am forward thinking, business oriented, and conscious of time and money being spent. You'd be surprised how often I successfully rebuke Claude | Copilot | Gemini on technical grounds. They are good, but they are not as good as a human. All that AI does is 10x my engineering throughput. Will you call me? Send me that message when you're ready to build. Explore consulting services! →

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Introduce yourself, tell me what you're working on, tell me what you need my help with, then tell me how I can get in touch with you. I am user 91,485 on @GitHub. I've been around for a while. It's that simple and I won't bite.

My deadname account from college is user 91,485. My current account is 50M+.

Go, Ruby, Bash, PHP, HCL, Swift, C++, Linux, macOS, Windows, VMWare, AWS, OCI, Docker, Web Design, Backend Systems, CI/CD, Perforce, GitHub Actions, Unreal Engine, TeamCity, Database Admin, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Helix Core, MariaDB, Disaster Recovery, Release Management, IaC, AI MCP, AI RAG, gollm, summarize, iOS App Developer, Linux System Admin, Big Data Analyst, Site Reliability, Documentation, Communication, Process

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