Staff Site Reliability Engineer @ NBA 🏀 | Disabled US Army Vet 🪖 | Infrastructure & Operations | Not A Programmer/Developer/Software Engineer | Professional Feather Ruffler 😏 | All opinions are my own.

Hi, I'm Sam, a Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and enterprise-scale DevOps automation. Currently architecting and implementing large-scale cloud migrations and multi-account AWS environments at the NBA.

Veteran with extensive experience spanning infrastructure evolution from early virtualization to modern cloud-native architectures.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (Compute, Storage, Databases, Network & Content Delivery, Security & Identity, Management & Governance)
• Multi-account Architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Container Orchestration & Serverless Architectures

DevOps & Automation

• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Configuration Management & Patch Automation
• Security Compliance & Service Control Policies
• Secrets Management (AWS Secrets Manager, Hashicorp Vault)

Core Technologies

• Linux Systems Administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.)
• Networking & Security
• Version control (GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Database Management & Migrations

• Leading MediaCentral WordPress migration to modern ECS/Fargate architecture
• Enterprise AWS Infrastructure Management & Optimization
• Expanding into Data Engineering, AI, and ML Operations
• Building Scalable, Maintainable, Highly Available, and Secure Cloud Infrastructure Solutions