About
Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 15+ years building and operating infrastructure. I've gone from sole sysadmin for 3,000 users to leading platform teams managing 100K+ resources across AWS.
Experience
Founder & Principal Consultant
Aronov Ventures / Remote
- Founded an infrastructure + AI consulting studio delivering cloud architecture, IaC, and AI integration for clients
- Architect and ship production AWS platforms — multi-account Control Tower, Terraform, and keyless OIDC CI/CD
- Build full-stack web and serverless AI features end to end (Astro, Go on Lambda, Anthropic Claude)
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL
- Decomposed monolithic Terraform into reusable modules, reducing plan time by 60%
- Integrated AI tooling with readonly AWS access for automated infrastructure diagnostics, reducing mean time to root cause by 75% during production incidents
- Architected modular platform provisioning ~20K resources per deployment across 6 environments (100K+ total)
Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure
ALTR / Melbourne, FL
- Compressed deployment cycles from 3 days to under 30 minutes across 6 production environments
- Drove AWS cost optimization through environment consolidation and managed service migration
- Deployed AWS Control Tower + AFT — self-service account vending via merge requests
- Scaled IaC adoption from zero to 25+ engineers authoring Terraform
- Designed AMI lifecycle using EC2 Image Builder with Inspector scanning and CIS hardening, producing SOC 2 compliant golden images
- Engineered Terraform-driven multi-region failover — sub-10-minute cutover during regional outages
Senior DevOps Engineer
ALTR / Melbourne, FL
- Built multi-region infrastructure for the production platform
- Contributed upstream fix to Terraform AWS Provider (PR #24685, merged same-day)
- Built Go-based on-call integration linking alerts to incidents and tickets automatically
Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
Tompkins Robotics / Orlando, FL
- Created full production replica runnable on a single laptop, eliminating $1MM/year in cloud dev costs
- Designed and delivered air-gapped on-premise appliance sold as turnkey product to enterprise clients
- Deployed monitoring stack reducing P95 API latency by 35%
Full Stack Engineer
Nano Web Group / New York, NY
- Diagnosed and fixed 25-second checkout bottleneck for global e-commerce client — reduced to under 1 second
Full Stack Engineer
B&H Photo & Video / New York, NY
- Introduced Docker dev environments and TypeScript testing on one of the largest US e-commerce platforms
Founder
DashOnSite / New York, NY
- Founded and ran a computer services business — IT support, network infrastructure, and web development for home and office clients
- Self-taught Node.js, Angular, and modern UI/UX, pivoting toward full-stack development
Systems Administrator
NYC Dept. of Education / New York, NY
- Sole IT admin for two schools — 3,000+ users, 1,500+ devices
- Built PXE/WDS imaging automation — full lab provisioning in 15 minutes
Skills
Cloud & AWS
EC2S3RDSLambdaECSControl TowerOrganizationsCloudFrontWAFRoute 53IAMVPCCloudWatchGuardDuty
IaC & Automation
TerraformAnsiblePackerDockerCheckov
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsCodePipeline
Languages
GoPythonTypeScriptBashRuby
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLElasticsearchRedis
Observability
GrafanaPrometheusELK StackCloudWatchPagerDuty
Certifications & Open Source
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (2021, expired 2024)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (2018, expired 2021)
Cisco CCNA (2011, expired 2014)
CompTIA A+ (2008, lifetime)
Open Source
Terraform AWS Provider — upstream contributor (PR #24685)
Education
B.S. Computer Information Systems — DeVry University, New York
Additional CS Coursework — Queens College, New York