01Cloud platform
OCI Database Tools
Secure, reusable database access and automation across control-plane resources, identities, private endpoints, runtime paths, and MCP-compatible tools.
- Java
- OCI
- JAX-RS
- Oracle DB
- Terraform
Canada-based · Open to senior/staff opportunities
I build the systems behind dependable products.
Principal-scope backend and platform engineering across cloud services, Kubernetes controllers, secure APIs, multi-tenant products, and production operations.
- Java · Go · Ruby · Python
- OCI · Kubernetes · APIs
- Security · Reliability · Delivery
PEENGINEERING
Cloud servicesControl planes
PlatformsKubernetes
Product systemsWorkflows
OperationsReliability
Principalmost recent scope
4industry domains
End-to-endbuild through operations
Globalmulti-region teams
THE THROUGH-LINE
Complex systems become useful when their boundaries are clear.
My work has repeatedly landed where product behavior meets platform responsibility: API contracts, identity boundaries, persistent state, release safety, and the operational reality after launch.
I am at my best turning ambiguous service needs into maintainable systems—and staying close enough to production to know whether the design actually works.
SELECTED SYSTEMS
Experience through the work
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02Kubernetes
Cartographer Conventions
A Kubernetes-native controller for applying platform-defined workload behavior through reconciliation, image metadata, and convention webhooks.
- Go
- Kubernetes
- CRDs
- RBAC
- TLS
03Healthcare
Crossover Health · XO-Web
A multi-tenant healthcare portal spanning patient access, appointments, messaging, medications, labs, documents, and site-specific workflows.
- React
- TypeScript
- Ruby
- MySQL
- OpenAPI
04Banking
Standard Bank Modernization
A modern customer banking experience connected safely to enterprise systems through gateway APIs, service contracts, stubs, and repeatable environments.
- Java
- AngularJS
- Ruby
- Contracts
- Docker
05Humanitarian
RapidFTR
A family-tracing and reunification product designed for sensitive field records, authenticated workflows, human review, and intermittent connectivity.
- Ruby
- Android
- Solr
- Auditability
- Offline flows
06Data platform
UNICEF DevInfo
A development-indicator and reporting platform for exploring complex records across geography, program, source, time, and demographic dimensions.
- Python
- Django
- MongoDB
- AngularJS
- Visualization
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CAREER PATH
Increasing scope, consistent foundations
Across cloud, platform, healthcare, banking, and social-impact systems, the recurring work is ownership: understanding boundaries, shipping safely, and supporting what runs.
Most recent
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle · Cloud Infrastructure
Owned backend and control-plane work for OCI Database Tools, including resource APIs, validation, persistence, identity and secrets, audit integration, MCP surfaces, release readiness, and production investigation.
Cloud service ownershipPlatform engineering
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware Tanzu · Kubernetes Platform
Worked on Kubernetes-native controller and admission patterns: reconciliation, CRDs, image metadata, webhook contracts, RBAC, certificates, retries, and status-driven observability.
Kubernetes platformsProduct systems
Senior Software Engineer
Andela · Remote
Contributed across API and web surfaces for multi-tenant healthcare and workplace products, preserving shared-platform behavior while supporting client-specific workflows.
Multi-tenant productsApr 2014 — Feb 2017
Application Software Developer
ThoughtWorks · Global delivery
Delivered banking modernization, development-data reporting, and humanitarian case-management systems across distributed consulting and client teams.
Integration & deliveryENGINEERING APPROACH
The habits behind the systems
Technical depth matters most when it produces systems that teams can understand, release, and operate with confidence.
Start with the invariant
Make the behavior that must remain true explicit, then shape APIs, state transitions, and validation around it.
Design for the operating day
Logs, alarms, rollout controls, failure paths, and support workflows belong in the design—not in a later cleanup phase.
Keep boundaries legible
Clear ownership between services, identities, stores, and clients makes change safer and production problems easier to isolate.
Use evidence to improve
Tests, canaries, dashboards, and incident signals turn engineering judgment into a repeatable feedback loop.
WORKING TOOLKIT
Broad enough for systems thinking.
Deep where reliability lives.
Languages
Java · Go · Ruby · Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL
Backend & data
REST · JAX-RS · Dropwizard · OpenAPI · JDBI · Liquibase · Oracle DB · MySQL · MongoDB
Cloud & platform
OCI · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · OCI Functions · IAM · Vault · RBAC
Quality & operations
JUnit · contract tests · Cypress · observability · canary validation · production debugging
CURRENT DIRECTION
Principal experience with hands-on depth.
This Canada-based engineer is focused on senior/staff backend and platform work where service design, reliability, and technical ownership matter.
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