Platform & Security Architect

Core Disciplines

Architectural Competencies

Sovereign platform engineering built on defensive depth, declarative definitions, and operational resilience.

Cloud Platforms & IaC

Immutable infrastructure, multi-region failover, container orchestration, and dynamic ingress controllers.

OpenTofu Terraform AWS GCP Docker

Cryptographic Security

Automated secrets lifecycle, dynamic PKI, OIDC/SAML federated identity, and Zero Trust enforcement.

Vault OpenBao Keycloak mTLS Zero Trust

Mesh Networking

Peer-to-peer encrypted overlay networks, self-sovereign edge gateways, and strict micro-segmentation.

Nebula OpenWrt WireGuard Segmentation

Full-Lifecycle Automation

High-throughput backend systems, hardened CI/CD pipelines, database optimization, and local AI pipelines.

Go Rust Python PostgreSQL Local AI
Full Spectrum Mastery

13-Year Engineering Trajectory

Progression from hardware & database administration to platform security architecture.

CURRENT — ARCHITECT LEVEL
IT Security Architect Specialist & Crypto Security Lead

Leading zero-trust architecture, cryptographic key distribution across multi-cloud environments, and declarative platform engineering.

MID-CAREER EVOLUTION
Lead R&D Engineer & Full Stack Software Architect

Architecting backend microservices, resilient data stores, dynamic container pipelines, and custom web platforms.

FOUNDATIONAL YEARS
Database Administrator, Systems Admin, QA & Field Support

Hands-on troubleshooting, SQL/NoSQL tuning, bare-metal server management, network routing, and quality engineering in demanding operational environments.

Proven Deployments

Sanitized Case Studies

Architectural highlights engineered for high availability, zero-trust posture, and extreme operational continuity.

Cryptographic Control Plane

Multi-Cloud Vault & Zero-Trust Pipeline

Consolidated legacy credentials into an automated HashiCorp Vault / OpenBao cluster with dynamic secrets engine and auto-rotating PKI certificates.

100%
Dynamic Secrets
< 15s
PKI Rotation
Local AI Execution

Inference Workstation Cluster

Engineered an air-gapped, high-throughput local AI inference pipeline for agentic execution without exposing query streams to external endpoints.

Zero
Data Leaks
45 ms
Token Latency
Digital Infrastructure

Regional Webmaster & Infrastructure

Modernized digital infrastructure for regional organizations including Ancient Order of Hibernians, implementing modern UI, high performance, and secure edge CDN.

99.99%
Uptime
100/100
Lighthouse Score