Platform engineer who built and launched RoleReady, an AI job-search SaaS used by thousands of job seekers. I work across product strategy, UX, application development, cloud infrastructure, growth, billing, support, and operations. Seven years of experience building reliable platforms with TypeScript, React, Next.js, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AI workflows.
Technical Skills
Cloud:GCP • Cloud Run • Cloud SQL • Cloud Build • Artifact Registry • AWS • Kubernetes • GKE • Docker • Terraform • Pulumi • Cloudflare R2
Infrastructure:GitHub Actions • Jenkins • ArgoCD • Tilt • Helm • Terraform • Cloud Build
Languages:TypeScript • JavaScript • Go • Python • Bash • SQL • PHP
Tools:Next.js • React • Astro • Bun • Tailwind CSS • BAML • Inngest • OpenAI • OpenRouter • Better Auth • Polar • Resend • Chrome Extensions • Vitest • Playwright
Databases:PostgreSQL • MySQL • Redis • Drizzle ORM • REST APIs • React Query • Zustand
Monitoring:Sentry • Datadog • Prometheus • Grafana • Doppler • IAM • RBAC • Vault • SOC 2
Experience
RoleReady
Platform Engineer
- →Founded and launched RoleReady, an AI job-search SaaS used by thousands of job seekers; serve as sole product owner and engineer across strategy, UX, application development, infrastructure, growth, billing, support, and operations
- →Shipped an end-to-end platform spanning Chrome extension capture, application tracking, resume building and tailoring, document management, interview coaching, company research, calendars, contacts, analytics, and offer comparison
- →Architected a type-safe Next.js/React/TypeScript system with 200+ API routes, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, React Query, Zustand, server-enforced quotas, realtime sync, and signed Cloudflare R2 storage
- →Provisioned production GCP infrastructure with Terraform: containerized Cloud Run, private-IP Cloud SQL, Direct VPC egress, CMEK encryption, least-privilege IAM, Doppler/Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, and an ephemeral IAP database bastion
- →Built structured BAML AI pipelines and 50+ Inngest workers for extraction, role intelligence, document generation, research, and interview coaching, with durable lifecycle tracking, retries, idempotency, deduplication, and quota enforcement
- →Established agentic software-delivery workflows with repo-enforced engineering contracts and human review; backed releases with Cloud Build deployment and rollback, Sentry observability, SSRF/CSP/rate-limit protections, 9,200+ passing Vitest tests, Playwright E2E, deterministic AI stubs, and an enforced 80% changed-file coverage gate
ClearEstate
Senior Cloud Engineer
- →Reduced cloud spend by 90%+ by re-architecting and migrating a hybrid production platform from GCP to AWS and Sevalla PaaS
- →Sustained 99.99% uptime while owning production architecture, Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and on-call incident response
- →Accelerated deployments by 70% by containerizing a legacy PHP application and optimizing Git checkout, CI runner, and build workflows
- →Led two zero-downtime migrations across AWS, GCP, and Sevalla; engineered GKE clusters, custom node pools, networking, and observability dashboards
- →Strengthened platform security and audit readiness through IAM, RBAC, Vault, and SOC 2 controls, plus Go/Python operational automation
Achievers
Senior Cloud Engineer
- →Standardized workflows for 20+ microservices by using Tilt to create development-to-production parity with GKE environments
- →Enabled a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration through Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitOps deployment practices
- →Operated multi-cluster GKE infrastructure with Terraform and Helm, building reusable platform tooling for Linux, macOS, and Windows engineering teams
Firmex
Build & Release Engineer
- →Increased deployment frequency by 300% by automating build, release, and promotion workflows with Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
- →Maintained 99.9% SLA uptime as a tier-1 on-call incident responder for a high-traffic financial services platform
- →Delivered a hybrid-cloud migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda workloads
- →Modernized observability from Graphite/Graylog to Datadog and codified repeatable AWS provisioning with CloudFormation
Education
Sheridan College
Advanced Diploma, Software Development & Networking
📍 Oakville, ON
Featured Projects
RoleReady
Job search workspace: application board, Knowledge Bank, Chrome extension capture, and AI resume tailoring with ATS checks.
Capsule
TUI wormhole manager built to learn Bubble Tea. File browser, zip-before-send, themed for daily use.
Let's Connect
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