DaySmart SoftwareCloud Engineering Lead | Director of Cloud Engineering
Feb. 2015 - May. 2022Ann Arbor, MILed the transformation of DaySmart’s cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform engineering to enable rapid and scalable software delivery. Spearheaded AWS migrations, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure modernization while providing hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, including cloud engineering, quality assurance, security, and IT operations. Drove operational efficiency, cost governance, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and private equity investments. Key Responsibilities:
-Architected and led the migration of on-premise web applications to AWS, enhancing scalability, performance, and security. -Developed and standardized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and automation tools, enabling one-click deployments for delivery teams. -Established the Platform Engineering Team, forming a cloud center of excellence to drive cloud adoption, security, and DevOps best practices. -Led the consolidation and integration of infrastructure from three acquired companies, implementing AWS Control Tower and consolidated billing for cost governance. -Played a key role in technical due diligence, creating architecture diagrams, security assessments, and operational documentation, contributing to the company’s successful acquisitions by SFW ($40M) and LLR ($105M). -Re-architected legacy monolith applications into microservices-based architectures, improving scalability and development agility. -Migrated CRM/ERP systems from internal application to Salesforce and Zuora, streamlining operations and enabling company growth. -Integrated automated QA testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring defects were caught early in the development cycle, reducing production bugs, and accelerating software releases.