Creative, thoughtful, experienced software (Rails, Node, PHP), cloud, and devops engineer

I'm a software engineer with 14+ years experience in:
- Application design (requirements and spec definition and agreement, domain-driven design, object-oriented design, data structure management, ETL processes, etc.)
- Application engineering (Rails, NodeJS, React/Vue, frontend)
- Server administration (Linux, Nginx, Apache, etc.)
- Containerization (Kubernetes, EKS, Docker)
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform)
- Cloud and infrastructure security (CPI-810, etc.)
- Compliance (CCPA, GDPA, CPNI, etc.)

At my last role, I was lead engineer on a team of five that developed and maintained an LMS system used internally at Verizon by hundreds of thousands of users. I'm funny, smart, a good listener and a good teacher. I like working in a team and getting things done. I like finding processes and ways to work that make things more efficient, fun, and engaging. I just left a job at Verizon voluntarily and am open to to hourly or project-based work.