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Experience_

Air Force cyber effects officer and former DevOps engineer. Background in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation, with an M.S. in Computer Science in progress at Georgia Tech.

roles

Mar 2024 — present

Cyber Effects Officer

U.S. Air Force · active duty

Jun 2022 — Jul 2023

DevOps Engineer

Guidehouse Digital · Clemson, SC

  • Built the Azure infrastructure for a $400K production project alongside the software development team, moving the client to a full cloud solution.
  • Co-authored an enterprise infrastructure module library, so teams across the company could assemble environments from prebuilt modules.
  • Designed a CI/CD pipeline that decoupled, containerized and sped up deployment of about 55 programs to a production website, using AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, ECR), GitHub Actions and Docker.

education

2025 — in progress

M.S. Computer Science, Computing Systems

Georgia Institute of Technology (OMSCS), part-time · GPA 4.0

Aug 2023 — Mar 2024

Undergraduate Cyber Warfare Training

U.S. Air Force · Outstanding Contributor · course average 96/100

Dec 2022

B.S. Computer Science

Clemson University · Minor in Aerospace Studies · GPA 3.64

Dean's List in four terms and President's List in Fall 2022. Air Force Scholarship and Clemson Corps Scholarship recipient.

certifications

  • Security+ · CompTIA · Sep 2023
  • in progress: CySA+ · CompTIA 

skills

languages
Python, C++, HCL, YAML, C, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell
cloud + devops
AWS, Azure, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines
systems
Linux

projects

Search engine

Ranks more than 1,000,000 links with Google's ranking algorithm, built on nested hash tables.

C++ · Clemson coursework

Campus pathfinding

Dijkstra's algorithm over more than a million three-dimensional coordinates mapping Clemson's campus.

C++ · Clemson coursework

AWS cost reduction

Cut AWS operating costs by more than 50% for a nonprofit student organization by finding and removing cost-inefficient infrastructure.

AWS · Student organization