Living resume
Systems
Architectures I have been accountable for. Some name the client, and none name a person.
State outside the cluster
A policy engine's database moved to RDS so the cluster under it could change with a connection string
Immuta, Databricks, Teradata, PostgreSQL, Amazon EKS, K3s, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Helm, Terraform
Health insurance · Cigna · superseded · 2024–2025
A policy engine's database moved to RDS so the cluster under it could change with a connection string
Immuta, Databricks, Teradata, PostgreSQL, Amazon EKS, K3s, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Helm, Terraform
Health insurance · Cigna · superseded · 2024–2025
Cost pane of glass
A departmental cost view built beside the FinOps tool that wouldn't slice the data
Apptio Cloudability, AWS Cost and Usage Report, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Terraform
Health insurance · Cigna · superseded · 2024–2025
A departmental cost view built beside the FinOps tool that wouldn't slice the data
Apptio Cloudability, AWS Cost and Usage Report, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Terraform
Health insurance · Cigna · superseded · 2024–2025
Thin manifest, fat library
A custom Jenkins with a thin per-repo manifest over a shared library, replacing ticket-driven manual deploys
Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline shared library, Per-repo manifest + Jenkinsfile, Remedy, .NET on-prem, Kubernetes on-prem, Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Pharmacy benefits · Express Scripts · superseded · 2016
A custom Jenkins with a thin per-repo manifest over a shared library, replacing ticket-driven manual deploys
Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline shared library, Per-repo manifest + Jenkinsfile, Remedy, .NET on-prem, Kubernetes on-prem, Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Pharmacy benefits · Express Scripts · superseded · 2016
The vendor-does-it pitch
The Kubernetes on-ramp built anyway after the vendor-run Cloud Foundry pitch won the approval
Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Amazon EKS
Pharmacy benefits · Express Scripts · superseded
The Kubernetes on-ramp built anyway after the vendor-run Cloud Foundry pitch won the approval
Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Amazon EKS
Pharmacy benefits · Express Scripts · superseded
Two-week review board
A review-board prototype built in two weeks from the team's own screenshots
React, Node.js, TypeScript, SQLite, Amazon ECS, Cursor, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM, Playwright
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2025
A review-board prototype built in two weeks from the team's own screenshots
React, Node.js, TypeScript, SQLite, Amazon ECS, Cursor, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM, Playwright
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2025
Path-to-prod gauntlet
The path to prod that carried the first workload off Pivotal Cloud Foundry into AWS, then eight more
Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, RDS Proxy, Okta
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2020
The path to prod that carried the first workload off Pivotal Cloud Foundry into AWS, then eight more
Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, RDS Proxy, Okta
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2020
Crawl-budget pre-render fleet
Pre-rendered listings for crawlers after a move to React left Googlebot with a render job
React, AWS Lambda, Headless Chromium, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon ElastiCache
Real estate · Anywhere Real Estate · operating
Pre-rendered listings for crawlers after a move to React left Googlebot with a render job
React, AWS Lambda, Headless Chromium, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon ElastiCache
Real estate · Anywhere Real Estate · operating
Shared store timeout cascade
The degraded mode that kept bookmarks serving while another team's bug saturated a shared MongoDB
AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, MongoDB
Real estate · Anywhere Real Estate · recovered
The degraded mode that kept bookmarks serving while another team's bug saturated a shared MongoDB
AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, MongoDB
Real estate · Anywhere Real Estate · recovered
Twice-paid catalog
A forked DBeaver with the enterprise's own metadata inside it, in place of a $700k-a-year renewal
DBeaver, Collibra, Temporal, AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2026
A forked DBeaver with the enterprise's own metadata inside it, in place of a $700k-a-year renewal
DBeaver, Collibra, Temporal, AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3
Health insurance · Cigna · operating · 2026
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Tell me what’s stuck
I’ll tell you in about a day whether I’m the right person. The first conversation is fit, not a free architecture review.