Engineering Director with 20+ years building and leading the teams that deliver enterprise-scale cloud and AI platforms. Founded and grew four engineering disciplines from the ground up — Cloud Automation, Software Engineering, SRE, and Platform Ops — and directed automation engineering at a Fortune 5, delivering $50M in-year savings. Still deeply hands-on: designs zero-trust multi-cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ships production AI systems from RAG pipelines to enterprise GenAI guardrails, and writes production code alongside his teams. Triple cloud certified.
Selected Impact
20+ — Years multi-cloud architecture
$50M — In-year savings (DevSecOps automation)
6,000+ — VMs migrated per year to Azure/GCP/AWS
$500B — Assets managed on a master data platform
Professional Experience
Qumodity — Engineering Director / Global Cloud Architect
May 2021 – Present · Remote (Puerto Rico)
Architected enterprise cloud infrastructure from greenfield: a zero-trust multi-cloud platform spanning Azure and AWS as independent hub-and-spoke topologies bridged via Azure VWAN and site-to-site VPNs, with Azure landing zones, policy governance, and RBAC.
Architected and built production RAG pipelines with LangChain and LangGraph — retrieval strategies, vector stores, LLM routing, and enterprise AI guardrails for GenAI adoption (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Cursor).
Built and led four engineering disciplines from the ground up — Cloud Automation, Software Engineering, SRE, and Platform Ops (up to 10 people each) — to autonomous operation.
Designed and owns the company's M&A technical integration framework — a reusable playbook onboarding ~5 acquired companies per year.
CVS Health — Cloud Architect / Director — Cloud & Automation Engineering
Jan 2017 – Apr 2021 · United States
Rebuilt the Cloud Infrastructure Center of Excellence from the ground up, enabling migration of ~6,000 VMs/year to Azure, GCP, and AWS; lead architect for reference architectures, ADRs, and Azure landing zones, with FinOps cost optimization.
Authored all Terraform IaC defining the hub-and-spoke multi-cloud network across Azure, GCP, and AWS — Zero Trust, IAM/RBAC, high availability, and disaster recovery; HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
As Director of Automation Engineering, delivered $50M in-year savings; standardized 3,500+ automated builds/year and grew the Chef/Terraform fleet from zero to 6,000 VMs in 8 months, scaling to 10,000+.
VMware — Global Technical Alliance Senior Manager
Oct 2015 – Dec 2016 · United States
Aligned CSC and VMware around a joint SDDC, End-User Computing, and Mobility portfolio, exceeding technical enablement growth targets quarter over quarter.
Overhauled the global technical enablement program with structured incentives and managed joint investments, systematically expanding the pipeline of enabled technical staff.
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) — Senior Principal Solution Architect
Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · United States
Led a 4,500-workload migration to Microsoft Azure with a PowerShell automation layer; designed AWS GovCloud infrastructure with a reusable clone-to-migrate strategy.
Chief Architect for a 25-person Enterprise Private Cloud Appliance pilot — delivered 200 blades and 3 PB of storage, reducing VM provisioning from 6 months to hours.
ServiceMesh — Lead Architect Supervisor
Apr 2013 – Jan 2014 · United States
Led design and implementation of the ServiceMesh Agility platform at Fortune 100 clients, with custom integrations across Puppet, Chef, VMware NSX, InfoBlox, and F5.
Reduced product installation and integration from a full week to hours via Python/Bash automated deployment pipelines.
MetLife Investments — Lead Software Architect
Jun 2010 – Apr 2013 · United States
Architected a hub-and-spoke master data warehouse (Eagle PACE/STAR) managing ~$500B in general account assets; led a team of 15 and cut a critical nightly batch from 6 hours to 22 minutes.
Standardized Informatica as the cross-team ETL tool and redesigned data systems on a follow-the-sun architecture for global high availability.