Portfolio

A selection of high-impact Engineering and Product Management studies in my recent past.

How to Move to GovCloud Without Breaking the Bank - Cover
Cloud AWS GovCloud FinOps Compliance Infrastructure Platform Engineering

How to Move to GovCloud Without Breaking the Bank

Six months into a $250M build, a surprise compliance mandate forced a full migration to AWS GovCloud—without adding a single month of delay or blowing the cloud budget.

September 2024
Kafka to Google PubSub with massive savings - Cover
Cloud GCP Kafka FinOps

Kafka to Google PubSub with massive savings

Can managed Pub/Sub be an inexpensive replacement for on-prem and hybrid-cloud Kafka?

October 2023
AI Contact Center: When to Kill a Product - Cover
SaaS Product Strategy Sunset Stakeholder Management FedRAMP B2B Decision Framework

AI Contact Center: When to Kill a Product

Introduced data-driven survival metrics to guide the difficult sunset decision on an underperforming SaaS product caught in political gridlock.

June 2023
Reframing Impossible: From Legacy App Nightmare to Modern Solution - Cover
Product Management Mobile iOS Legacy Migration Client Management Problem Framing

Reframing Impossible: From Legacy App Nightmare to Modern Solution

When a client demanded resurrection of a 10-year-old iOS app, we reframed the impossible request into a solvable problem and delivered in two months instead of chasing legacy code.

March 2022
Partner API Gateway: Opening a Monolith to 50+ External Partners - Cover
API Strategy Product Thinking Kafka Event Streaming Architecture Public Sector Benefits Management

Partner API Gateway: Opening a Monolith to 50+ External Partners

Transformed a feature request from 'just clone the APIs' into a product-led API gateway with Kafka event streaming, onboarding 50+ external partners without destabilizing a mission-critical health benefits system.

December 2018
Healthcare.gov: From Email Hell to SRE Excellence - Cover
SRE Observability Platform Engineering Government AWS Critical Infrastructure

Healthcare.gov: From Email Hell to SRE Excellence

Transformed a mission-critical government application from weekly SEV1 outages to almost 0 SEV1 incidents annually by pioneering SRE practices and observability infrastructure.

June 2017