Career Summary

The Past

I have spent the first half of this decade working as a system administrator focused on networking. While not a part of any of my job descriptions, whenever the opportunities presented themselves, I developed network automation solutions.

My deliverables started with network configuration deployment automation, but I soon branched out to push-button network task automation, helping empower level 1 support staff to perform specific tasks previously reserved for level 2 or level 3 support staff. I quickly made a name for myself as the automation guy from the network team.

Before too long, I was sought after and given more and more complex automation tasks. I was able to eliminate a year's worth of night work for the network administrators and speed up a project's timeline with a large-scale network deployment automation, touching several management systems. I also whipped up a team of interns and created a network device rollout automation solution used to speed up and simplify network device rollouts so much that the rollout process can be moved to our logistics teams instead of our network technical team.

Early on, while creating these automation deliverables and seeing its transformative impact for the benefitting infrastructure teams, I fell in love with this type of work. I had no work or educational background with software development, so it was my first foray into that field. I chose to double down on what was emerging as my passion.

The Present

Fast forward to summer of 2025, I was promoted to an infrastructure automation developer on a brand new development team. I have excelled being allowed to work full-time on transformative infrastructure automation projects. I have grown so much as a leader, taking ownership of my team's deliverables and steering this team into the future.

I love the Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps style of work, where I can develop powerful automation that touches all aspects of our technical infrastructure. I am inspired by my work and constantly push myself and those around me to excel.

The Future

I know I have what it takes to break down complex manual processes into a series of tasks and then create automation that fully replaces and even enhances the original manual process the automation was built to replace.

I know I can eliminate toil through intelligent selection of tasks to explore automating.

I will keep myself agile and willing to learn whatever I need to do my job exceptionally well.

I will do everything in my power to maximize efficiency and reduce service disruptions through the automation I create.

I will constantly research future technology and embrace what makes sense at my work.

I am confident my ambition, past experience, and relentless pursuit of perfection will prove immensely valuable.

Bring it on!