Platform engineer who built and launched RoleReady, an AI job-search SaaS, solo: product, code, infrastructure, and support. Seven years of platforms with TypeScript, Go, GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes.
Technical Skills
Cloud:GCP • Cloud Run • Cloud SQL • Cloud Build • Artifact Registry • AWS • Kubernetes • GKE • Docker • 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 • REST APIs • React Query • Zustand
Databases:PostgreSQL • MySQL • Redis • Drizzle ORM
Monitoring:Sentry • Datadog • Prometheus • Grafana
Security:IAM • RBAC • Vault • SOC 2 • Doppler
Experience
RoleReady
Founder
- →Founded and launched RoleReady, an AI job-search SaaS; run it solo across product, code, infrastructure, and support
- →Shipped the full product myself: capture, tracking, resume tailoring, interview prep, and offer comparison
- →Also shipped document management, company research, calendars, contacts, and analytics
- →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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