I design and deliver distributed systems in secure and regulated environments. My work centers on Kafka-based event streaming and Kubernetes platforms engineered for scale, compliance, and production durability.
Core Capabilities
- Kafka Architecture: Scale event streaming for high-throughput, multi-IL environments.
- Secure System Design: Navigate federal security controls and ATO processes for air-gapped and GovCloud deployments.
- Platform Modernization: Migrate services to Kubernetes using GitOps and containerized architectures.
- Production Delivery: Transition prototypes to production systems with automated deployment and monitoring.
Selected Engagements
Multi-IL Risk Platform
- Environment: On-prem and GovCloud (Multi-IL).
- Constraint: Fine-grained authorization and air-gapped data sharing.
- Scope: Designed and delivered a hybrid on-prem/GovCloud multi-IL platform with cross-boundary data controls, fine-grained authorization, and event-driven integration under air-gap and compliance constraints.
- Outcome: Delivered production-ready risk platform meeting security standards.
High-Throughput Scalable Kafka Platform
- Environment: Commercial multi-cluster multi-client Kubernetes deployments.
- Constraint: 120k msg/sec peak load and rebalance-free horizontal scaling.
- Scope: Custom Kubernetes Operator with rebalance-avoidance strategy.
- Outcome: ~50% infrastructure cost reduction and elimination of scaling latency.
Federal Kafka Deployments
- Environment: Cloud, bare metal, and Kubernetes.
- Constraint: ATO requirements and FIPS-compliant cryptography.
- Scope: Hardened Kafka clusters with LDAP/Kerberos identity integration.
- Outcome: Deployed Kafka infrastructure for DoD and federal clients.
Engagement Model
Architecture Assessment
Short-term evaluation of distributed systems under scale or compliance constraints.
Principal Engineer Embed
Hands-on delivery leadership for event streaming and secure platforms.
POC Acceleration
Rapid validation systems designed for production evolution without rewrite.
Regulated & Federal Platform Acceleration
Rapid implementation of critical infrastructure components to accelerate delivery and reduce systemic risk.
Examples include:
- IL4/IL5 Kubernetes platform hardening aligned to Platform One reference architectures.
- Event streaming platforms engineered for ATO acceleration.
- Infrastructure-as-Code–driven security baselines, including FIPS-aligned TLS, mTLS enforcement, and automated certificate lifecycle control.
- Zero Trust–aligned event integration patterns.