Experience & Education
A decade of building, breaking, and securing systems at scale.
Professional Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MicrosoftSenior 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 CorporationDeveloped 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 IndustriesContributed 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 CompanyCyber 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 CompanyInnovated 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 UniversityResearched 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
George Mason University
Volgenau School of Engineering and Computing
Class of 2023Virginia Western Community College
"Boring CS Club" — President (2018-2020)
2018 — 2020Areas 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.