The person behind it

Tree.

SRE · Platform Engineer · Cascade Climber

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years building production infrastructure on AWS, currently based in Seattle and looking for roles at the intersection of technical depth and things that actually matter — climate, sustainability, outdoor access, and the communities built around them.

I'm also co-facilitator of Rising Roots, a climbing community creating welcoming spaces for BIPOC climbers in the PNW. I built BETA because a tool like this didn't exist for the crags we climb — and because production-grade engineering is exactly what a community resource deserves.

When I'm not thinking about infrastructure, I'm at Seattle Bouldering Project, riding with Northstar Cycling, or planning my next Cascades objective. Patagonia evangelist. Data nerd. Mountain person.

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Technical Skills

What I build with.

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM) · Terraform · CloudFormation · Ansible
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes · EKS · ECS Fargate · Docker · Helm
Observability
Grafana · Prometheus · CloudWatch · Datadog · PagerDuty
Languages & Scripting
Python · Bash · Go (learning) · YAML · HCL
CI/CD & DevOps
GitHub Actions · Jenkins · GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Atlantis
Compliance & Security
SOX · FedRAMP · AWS Security Hub · IAM policy · Vault

Experience

Where I've shipped.

2021 – 2022
Magnopus
Site Reliability Engineer

Infrastructure and reliability engineering for a spatial computing and XR studio. Managed AWS environments, built Terraform modules for production infrastructure, observability improvements across services. Improvements on infrastructure behind Connected Spaces, named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2022. The most creatively interesting technical environment I've worked in.

2020 – 2021
Motorola Solutions
Sr. Systems Engineer

Enterprise-scale infrastructure supporting public safety communications. Proof-of-concept work for FedRAMP certification and migrations to Azure, automated remediation pipelines and alerting, multi-account organization governance. Teaching SRE principles and incident management to 15+ development teams.

2018 – 2019
Cloudreach
Cloud Systems Developer

Enterprise cloud consulting: the kind of work where you're parachuted into organizations and have to earn trust fast. Migrations, governance frameworks, multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP) — built for clients across healthcare, finance, and global retail.

2015 – 2017
HookLogic
DevOps Technician

Classic DevOps and infrastructure work serving several development teams through tight collaboration. AWS environments maintenance & improvements, automation, monitoring, release pipelines and on-call.

Contact

Let's connect.

Whether it's a role opportunity, a collaboration on BETA, or just wanting to talk SRE stuff / climbing conditions / Patagonia gear nerdery — I'm here for it.