Experience & Education

A decade of building, breaking, and securing systems at scale.

Professional Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Microsoft
Dec 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA

Senior SRE responsible for designing and maintaining scalable, highly available infrastructure systems serving millions of users. Leading initiatives to improve system reliability and performance through automated monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.

  • Architect enterprise-scale reliability solutions for mission-critical services
  • Drive automated monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning initiatives
  • Serve as AI/ML and offensive cyber subject matter expert
  • Implement best-in-class security practices across infrastructure

AI/ML Engineer

Parsons Corporation
Jun 2023 — Dec 2024 · Charlotte, NC (Remote)

Developed advanced machine learning solutions for mission-critical applications. Led development of automated infrastructure systems using distributed evolutionary algorithms and large language models.

  • Recognized with Game Changer Award (2023) for expanding internal cyber capabilities and advancing programs with DARPA, US Cyber Command JCW, and federal partners
  • Recognized with Standing Ovation Award (2024) for pioneering AI/ML innovations
  • Architected ML systems, distributed computing, and production ML pipelines (MLFlow)
  • Designed cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP) with containerized deployments
  • Mentored junior developers and established engineering best practices

Cyber Security Consultant

Porchetta Industries
Oct 2020 — Oct 2023 · Freelance

Contributed to a community dedicated to supporting open-source infosec and hacking tool developers. Provided security consulting, code review, and guidance to help open-source projects succeed through GitHub Sponsorships and community engagement.

Software Engineer

BlackHorse Solutions — A Parsons Company
Jun 2021 — Jun 2023 · Herndon, VA (Hybrid)

Cyber Warfare Engineer focused on advanced security research and offensive tool development. Engineered robust frameworks and APIs to enhance operational capabilities.

  • Specialized in vulnerability research, binary analysis, and custom security tool development
  • Led technical initiatives in Python, C++, and Rust for cross-platform exploitation (Windows/Linux)
  • Built APIs and automation pipelines to streamline operator workflows
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an agile development environment

Software Engineer Intern

BlackHorse Solutions — A Parsons Company
Jun 2021 — Aug 2021 · Herndon, VA

Innovated within the cyber technologies pipeline and lifecycle, creating forward-looking cyber technologies to support the national security agenda.

  • Developed and deployed offensive cyber tools for national security applications
  • Contributed production-ready code with documentation and unit testing
  • Gained hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and the Elastic Stack

Cryptography Researcher

George Mason University
Jan 2020 — Jun 2021

Researched 5G mobile defense platforms inside mesh networks, applying zero trust proofs and smart cryptography to identify, mitigate, and predict attacks on key infrastructure and edge nodes.

  • Published IEEE paper on 5G mobile defense platforms in mesh networks
  • Developed cryptographic protocols using keyed nonces to prevent replay, discovery, and flooding attacks
  • Collaborated with professors and engineers on system design and complexity analysis

Academic Background

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George Mason University

Volgenau School of Engineering and Computing

Class of 2023
BS Computer Science BS Mathematics BS Physics
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Virginia Western Community College

"Boring CS Club" — President (2018-2020)

2018 — 2020
CS Foundations Leadership

Areas of Interest

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure automation, automated incident response, capacity planning, chaos engineering, and building self-healing distributed systems at scale.

AI/ML Systems

Distributed evolutionary algorithms, large language models, production ML pipelines, MLFlow, neural architecture search, and AI-driven infrastructure optimization.

5G Mesh Networks

Edge intelligence, decentralized connectivity, group policy in mesh topology, keyed nonces for preventing replay, discovery, and flooding attacks.

Cryptography

Secret key & public key encryption, PKI, key exchange protocols, cryptographic hash functions, zero trust proofs, and applied cryptanalysis.

Offensive Cyber Operations

Vulnerability research, binary analysis, exploit development, reverse engineering, and building custom tooling for security assessments.

Evolutionary Computing

Genetic algorithms, neuroevolution, cellular automata, and emergent intelligence through computational evolution.

Organizations & Affiliations

Porchetta Industries Security Consultant (2020-2023)
Red Team Village Affiliate (2020-2023)
Patriot Hack Club Member — GMU (2020-2023)
Patriot Blockchain Club Member — GMU (2020-2023)
Patriot Protection Club Ambassador — GMU (2021)
"Boring CS Club" President — VWCC (2018-2020)