Experience

Backbase — Senior System Engineer

Toronto, ON | Oct 2021 – Present

Building and operating a cloud-native Banking-as-a-Service platform on Azure for a global fintech serving 150+ banks and credit unions.

• Architected end-to-end Kubernetes platform (AKS/EKS) with GitOps workflows via GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Deployed and managed Istio service mesh for zero-trust service-to-service security and traffic governance
• Engineered Azure Front Door, WAF, Service Bus, Azure SQL, Availability Zones, and DR pipelines
• Built and maintained Keycloak identity & access management platform
• Introduced GitHub Copilot AI-assisted engineering practices across the platform team
• Mentored engineers, contributed code, and communicated with stakeholders across 10+ time zones

Stack: Azure AKS, Istio, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Keycloak, Terraform, Helm, Grafana, Prometheus

HSBC — Site Reliability Engineer / Consultant

Vancouver, BC | May 2021 – Oct 2021

Hybrid cloud infrastructure support focused on security automation.

• Automated CyberArk PAM workflows via REST API, Ansible Tower, Python, and PowerShell
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / Ansible / Bash / wsadmin)
• Managed PKI/SSL infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments

BMO Financial Group — Senior DevSecOps / App Software Engineer

Toronto, ON | Feb 2020 – May 2021

Enterprise-grade security platform engineering at one of Canada’s Big Five banks.

• Engineered CyberArk PAM components: PVWA, PSM, CPM, CCP, SCIM
• Built REST-API automation for Privileged Access Security with Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Bamboo
• Automated cloud privilege access across AWS and Azure
• Led Docker/Kubernetes microservices migration for middleware workloads

ADP — Site Reliability Engineer

Mississauga, ON | Jul 2019 – Feb 2020

SRE for large-scale payroll and HR infrastructure.

• Managed UNIX/Linux/Windows estate with Ansible/Tower, Netcool, Bitbucket
• Deployed AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS) using CloudFormation and Terraform
• Drove cloud cost reduction initiatives; implemented AWS IAM, SSO/MFA
• Built observability stack: Splunk / ELK

IBM — Middleware / DevOps Consultant

Toronto, ON | Nov 2018 – Jul 2019

• IBM MQ V5–V9 on Windows, AIX, and Linux
• Automation with Terraform, Ansible Tower, Git/Bitbucket
• MQ on VMware and Docker/Kubernetes; IBM Bluemix
• CI/CD with Jenkins/Bamboo

HSBC Commercial Banking — Middleware / DevOps Solutions Specialist

Vancouver, BC | Apr 2018 – Oct 2018

• IBM WAS ND V8–V9 on RHEL 7 / AIX
• Build and deploy automation with Bitbucket / Jenkins / Ansible / Bash
• SSO/OTP, PKI/SSL

RBC — Middleware Consultant

Toronto, ON | Jun 2017 – Mar 2018

• IBM MQ V7–V8 on Windows / AIX / Linux
• Ansible/BladeLogic pipelines; VMware/Docker; AWS/Azure; PKI/SSL

Great-West Life — Senior SRE

Toronto, ON | Oct 2016 – Jun 2017

• Multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, Softlayer) IaC with CloudFormation/Terraform
• RHEL IdM + Shibboleth IdP/SP identity management
• Adobe Experience Manager V6; Zabbix, Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace, PagerDuty

Earlier Career