👋🏼, I’m a hands-on engineering leader, Ex Dell, with 16+ years of IC experience and 7+ years leadership experience in building cloud based distributed Systems.
Most recently I led a team at Dell Secureworks to build the ingest pipeline for Taegis, a SaaS XDR platform that processes > 300B events a day.
This site shares lessons learned from years in engineering as an individual contributor and cloud practitioner.
My Journey#
Sr. Engineer / Engineering Manager
2018–2025
Secureworks
- Built Cloud ingest pipeline handling 300B+ events/day using IaC in AWS
- Developed internal tooling, optimized onboarding experience using Nix
- Optimized Spark on EKS
- Championed diskless Kafka with PoC and successfull adoption in Production using WarpStream
Principal Engineer
2016–2018
Secureworks
- Developed Sandbox to inject adhoc python threat hunt algorithms into detection pipeline enabling rapid response to emerging threats
- Modernized CI/CD pipeline, introduced quality gates. Introduced SOAP based microservice for adhoc threat report generation
Sr. Software Engineer
2011–2016
Secureworks
- Redesigned monolith to distributed system for scalability and high availability
- Introduced SRE best practices, automated deployments, reduced alert fatigue, self-healing scripts
Senior Engineer
1998–2011
Sabre
- Built AirMax Revenue Optimizer: dynamic overbooking with minimal bumps
- Developed flight IVR backend
- Enhanced booking engine, mentored on testing, sped up builds 10×
- Wrote a
Clogging library (inspired by log4j), leverage library to implement centralized logging that drastically reduced troubleshooting time and meet PCI compliance
Education & Certifications
MBA + AWS
UT Arlington, BMSCE
Earned MBA & BE degrees. Certified AWS Solutions Architect. Continuous learner in DevOps and cloud security.