Resume

Senior Software Engineer — Agentic AI, Local LLM Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

20 years building and running the systems other people depend on — Linux infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, databases, and the DevOps/SRE plumbing that keeps all of it standing up. These days the focus is agentic AI and the infrastructure underneath it: I run local LLMs on AMD GPU hardware (ROCm, Vulkan, llama.cpp, vLLM, Lemonade) and build multi-agent engineering workflows on the Model Context Protocol with Claude Code and OpenCode — no API bills, no data leaving the box.

I’ve worked every layer, from the kernel up to owning a company’s largest enterprise accounts, so I can both ship the thing and make the case for it to the people signing off. What I’m good at is technical direction: figuring out where AI actually earns its place instead of where it’s merely fashionable, then getting a team there. Open source contributor, ham radio operator (KN4FHS), and Eagle Scout.

Experience

Senior Software EngineerAugust 2016 - Present

Full-stack systems engineering across software development, middleware, databases, DevOps, and infrastructure — with container orchestration, platform automation, and CI/CD operated at enterprise scale. Now focused on agentic AI: standing up local LLM infrastructure on AMD GPU hardware (ROCm, Vulkan, llama.cpp, vLLM) and building the multi-agent workflows and Model Context Protocol tooling that bring those models into everyday engineering.

Technical Success ManagerJune 2015 - August 2016

Owned the company's largest enterprise accounts at the time — Microsoft Azure, PNC Bank, and Cisco — as the technical lead for adoption, retention, and success across high-value CI/CD deployments. Turned complex delivery pipelines into outcomes that both executives and engineers could act on.

Release EngineerFebruary 2015 - June 2015

Contract release engineering and DevOps — build and deployment automation across the release pipeline. Converted to a full-time role elsewhere.

Senior Software EngineerSeptember 2013 - February 2014

Systems engineering and DevOps across Red Hat infrastructure.

Database & System EngineerNovember 2010 - September 2013

Backend systems engineering on CentOS-based infrastructure — database administration, infrastructure design, and DevOps.

Senior Technical AnalystDecember 2007 - September 2010

Front-line technical support, installation, and consulting for the Catapult point-of-sale platform.

System Administrator2005 - 2007

Systems administration, technical support, and PHP development.

Skills

Languages & Operating Systems
CplusplusRustJavaPythonBashZshShellJavascriptPHPLuaRubyGroovyKotlinAsciidocMarkdownLinuxRed Hat Enterprise LinuxArch LinuxGentoo LinuxDebian LinuxSlackware LinuxAlpine LinuxOpenBSDNetBSDFreeBSDmacOSMicrosoft Windows
DevOps & Build Tools
gitAnsiblePuppetChefGitLabJenkinsVagrantTerraformMavenAntGradle
Platform Development & Administration
AWSNginxApacheNodeJSQuarkusSpring BootJBossWildflyUnicornMemcachedRedis
Data Management
MySQL/MariaDBPostgreSQLSQLiteMongoDB
Architecture
IP NetworkingDNSFirewallsLoad BalancingMicroservicesRESTful APIsVirtualizationContainers

Education

Associate in Applied Science — Computer SciencePresent
Diploma2001 - 2005

Certifications

Red Hat Certified EngineerJul 2017
Red Hat, Inc.

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Red Hat Certified System AdministratorJun 2017
Red Hat, Inc.

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PostgreSQL 9 AdministrationMar 2011
Open Technology Group
Amateur RadioAug 2017
Federal Communications Commission · KN4FHS

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Eagle ScoutMar 2005
Boy Scouts of America