Professional Experience
Cloud Engineer Lead
USAA • San Antonio, Texas
Jul 2020 – Current
Lead infrastructure as code strategy and implementation of enterprise cloud solutions with focus on best practices and compliance.
- Implemented centralized GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Amazon Machine Image builds using Packer with automated validation
- Developed and documented 60+ Terraform modules for centralized repository with semantic versioning and comprehensive testing
- Established Kitchen Terraform testing framework enabling 100+ integration tests across curated modules
- Led adoption and implementation of Open Policy Agent for policy enforcement in continuous delivery model
Cloud Engineer Senior
USAA • San Antonio, Texas
May 2017 – Aug 2020
Built and deployed safe, compliant cloud resources while mentoring junior developers and driving DevOps adoption.
- Designed and deployed CI/CD pipelines with GitLab for infrastructure deployment across multiple cloud providers
- Wrote custom Python and GoLang extensions to enforce AWS resource guardrails through Terraform
- Coordinated enterprise-wide compliance effort with Security, Networking, and Storage teams
- Mentored junior developers and championed DevOps practices adoption across the organization
Intermediate Software Developer
USAA • San Antonio, Texas
Dec 2015 – Jun 2017
Built JAVA applications and led migration from Jenkins to GitLab and monolithic to microservices architecture.
- Key member of Jenkins to GitLab CI/CD migration and monolithic to microservices transition
- Built and maintained JAVA applications for network automation including port management and IP space allocation
- Integrated Infoblox APIs and in-house APIs into network management applications
- Designed and built Angular UI frontends interfacing with microservices backend
Junior Software Engineer
USAA • San Antonio, Texas
May 2014 – Jan 2016
Supported Availability Organization in fast release process and platform migrations.
- Key member of ServiceNow platform migration establishing Incident, Problem, and Change Management
- Built ServiceNow forms, client and server scripts, REST API integrations, and UI components
- Maintained custom .NET software for Service Desk Representatives consolidating technical information
- Collaborated with teams to ensure reliability and resiliency of backend data and APIs
Information Security Analyst
Citibank • San Antonio, Texas
Nov 2010 – Jun 2014
Managed identity administration across multiple applications and architectures ensuring policy and regulatory compliance.
- Administered identity management for multiple applications across various platforms and architectures
- Reviewed application security models against internal policy and regulatory standards
- Collaborated with senior management to communicate requirements and remediate non-compliant applications
- Analyzed workflows and developed solutions using SQL, Mainframe macros, Visual Basic, and Excel