Experience

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
2020-03-20 - present
Warner Bros. Discovery
Remote, GA
Sr. Systems Engineer
2018-10-07 - 2020-03-19
Turner Broadcasting Systems — Build and Release
Atlanta, GA
Systems Engineer
2017-10-07 - 2018-10-06
Turner Broadcasting Systems — Build and Release
Atlanta, GA
Associate Software Engineer
2016 - 2017
Apprenda — Platform Team
Troy, NY
QA Analyst
2015 - 2016
Apprenda — QA Team
Troy, NY
Jr. QA Analyst
2014 - 2015
Option Soft — QA Team
Colonie, NY

Education

Physics (Bachelor of Science)
2011-06-01 - 2013-05-01
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

3.3

Physics (Associate of Science)
2011-06-01 - 2013-05-01
Hudson Valley Community College

4.0

Physics, Math (Bachelor of Science)
2011-06-01 - Dropped out :(
University at Albany, SUNY

Volunteering

Awards

Certificates

Publications

Skills

  • AWS (Master)

    IdentityCenter, CloudFormation, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, ECS, EC2, Lambda, StackSets, Organizations, SecretsManager, Code*

  • Terraform (Master)

    Terraform, Tofu, Module Authoring

  • Python (Skilled)

    Click, Flask, Django, Requests, boto3

  • Shell usage (POSIX) (Skilled)

    navigating, sorting, searching, scripting, parsing, working

  • REST APIs (consuming) (Skilled)

    curl, jq, python:requests, jupyter-notebook, swagger, postman, python:urllib

  • REST APIs (authoring) (Skilled)

    flask, curl, jq, python:requests, jupyter-notebook, swagger, postman, python:urllib

Languages

  • English — Native speaker
  • Italian — A2
  • Python — Native speaker
  • Bash — Native speaker

Interests

  • Physics — Foundations of Physics, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Generical Relativity, Cosmology, Many Worlds
  • Programming — Bash, Python, Rust, Algorithms-Practice, Practice-Problems, Distributed-Systems, CLI-Programming, API-Programming
  • Philosophy — Poetic Naturalism, Foundations of Physics, Cypherpunk
  • Writing — Blogging, Story-writing
  • Teaching — Programming, AWS, Physics
  • Experimenting — Jupyter-Notebook
  • Cryptography — SSH, Bitcoin, Monero, One-Way-Pad, Randomness-Sources

References

Projects

Designer, Maintainer, Co-implementor
2022 - 2024
AWS Account Creation (AWS Automation) — Automation for the creation and onboarding of AWS accounts in Warner Bros. Discovery's AWS Organization.
Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Over 1000 AWS accounts created and onboarded
  • Allows for 24hr turn around on all account creation requests
  • Includes baseline configurations applied to new accounts
  • Makes use of AWS OUs for applying specific config (SCPs, StackSets)

AWS Organizations, AWS StackSets, AWS Lambda, AWS Service Catalog, Python

Team lead, Implementor, Designer
2016-08-24 - 2016-08-24
Boxer (Command line application) — A CLI for creating and managing virtual machines in Turner's vSphere data centers.
Turner Broadcasting
  • Saved several million dollars by speeding up time to migrate ~4000 boxes between data centers.
  • Supported DNS management
  • Supported lifecycle management post-creation.
  • Support for defining machines in files using a declarative format
  • Written in Python using Click and vSphere SDK.

Virtual Machine, vSphere, InfoBlox, Python, CLI