About

I design and ship public cloud infrastructure that is resilient, operable, and boring in the best way. I spent seven years at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure working on Oracle Kubernetes Engine and control plane services at public cloud scale, leaving in October 2023 as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff after two promotions.

Highlights

• Led the redesign and live migration of OKE’s etcd customer control plane datastore layer.
• Designed and delivered the Oracle Kubernetes Engine management plane.
• Lead engineer on the OCI API Gateway management plane, porting Kubernetes design patterns to Java.
• Represented OCI in the Kubernetes Cloud Provider SIG and delivered OCI’s cloud provider and CSI implementations.
• Lead engineer on Oracle’s Kubernetes MySQL Operator and the OCI Cloud Controller Manager.
• Named inventor on three granted US patents related to public cloud services.
• Engaged in large-scale operational incidents and worked directly with customers including Zoom, ByteDance, and 8x8 to resolve integration and operational blockers.

Current Work

I run RocketPod and do public cloud infrastructure consultancy, and I provide part-time technical leadership for Mediae’s iShamba platform, supporting a junior full-time developer with lightweight guidance and platform direction.

Skills

Public cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, control planes, DevOps, Go, Java, Python, observability, etcd, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and cloud architecture.