From mainframe modernization to agentic AI.

EVINOVA

Director of AI/ML Cloud Engineering

Lead the AI/ML cloud engineering team at Evinova, an AstraZeneca HealthTech business. Partner with Data Science, Platform, application, and security teams to turn experimentation into production-ready capabilities through hands-on engineering and technical leadership.

• Re-architected the Data Science platform: Led the redesign and implementation of SageMaker Unified Studio, Evinova's chosen Data Science platform, using infrastructure as code, governed data and model access, and GxP-qualified environments.
• Built repeatable deployment paths: Delivered AI/ML deployment workflows and controlled model-artifact promotion; proved an end-to-end BYOM architecture with CI/CD, model deployment, and secure cross-account access.
• Enabled data and model services: Delivered governed, self-service SFTP ingestion into the data lake and onboarded Mistral OCR with automatic failover, using benchmarks to choose between self-hosted and managed options.
• Delivered governed interim AI traceability: Self-hosted and managed Langfuse within Evinova's governance standards as an interim solution pending selection of a long-term traceability platform; automated security updates and patching through a CI/CD workflow.
• Automated operational controls: Delivered GxP-qualified token monitoring and automated Bedrock quota management to replace reactive manual intervention.
• Established trustworthy-AI architecture: Defined reusable controls for automated evaluations, LLM gateways, agent kill switches, security alerting, and audit trails to support security, governance, and ISO 42001 readiness.
• Set direction and enabled teams: Established a capability-led AI/ML roadmap and cross-functional delivery partnerships, aligning platform priorities with product needs and enterprise AI maturity goals.
• Promoted production AI engineering practices: Guided Data Scientists, Platform teams, and application engineers on reusable agent harnesses, bounded execution loops with human review checkpoints, automated evaluations, and trace-driven improvement. Shared context and memory design trade-offs, benchmark limitations, and quality, latency, and cost considerations for model selection and routing.

Technology Stack: SageMaker Unified Studio, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, SFTP, Mistral OCR, Langfuse, Amazon Bedrock.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)

Software Development Engineer

Built agentic AI products and developer experiences across AWS Transform, the SEG platform, and the APEX professional-services initiative.

• Agentic knowledge processing: Led technical architecture for APEX and delivered a Knowledge Extraction MCP Blueprint to turn customer documents into contextual knowledge bases for AI agents.
• Agent architecture: Built a headless agent using AWS AgentCore and Strands, with DynamoDB-backed state management and staged document reception, batching, processing, and knowledge-base ingestion.
• Enterprise transformation: Developed job-management and human-in-the-loop workflows for AWS Transform using ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and infrastructure as code through CDK.
• Multi-region delivery: Led the Frankfurt region build, coordinating more than 15 teams on DynamoDB Global Tables, cross-region service discovery, VPC peering, and Route 53.
• Orchestration and security: Combined LangGraph workflows with Strands agent execution for the SEG platform and owned application-security work, including threat modeling.

Technology Stack: Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, SageMaker, Step Functions, LangGraph, DynamoDB, Cognito, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Strands SDK, Lambda, ECS, CDK, TypeScript, Python, Vector Databases, scikit-learn, Multi-region deployment, Java, VPC, Route53, Global Tables, WebSockets, React.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)

Software Development Manager

Led a team delivering Amazon CodeCatalyst Workflows, the CI/CD capability of the DevOps service launched at AWS re:Invent 2022.

• Managed a cross-functional development team of nine engineers, partnering with product managers, UX designers, and infrastructure teams.
• Owned the service lifecycle, from system design and fault-tolerant architecture through delivery, operations, and incident management.
• Established monitoring, alerting, GameDay validation, and post-incident reviews to strengthen operational readiness.

Technology Stack: AWS CodeCatalyst, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, CDK, Kotlin, CI/CD, DevOps, GenAI, Amazon Q, Agile/Scrum, Sprint Management.

COMMON SECURITIZATION SOLUTIONS

Software Development Manager

Led the BPO-MARS product team across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operations.

• Managed a cross-functional engineering team of more than 21 members—the organization's first Agile autonomous team—and delivered six major releases.
• Designed cloud-native, containerized microservices using ECS, Lambda, and S3, integrated with Appian BPM, Snowflake, and Redshift Spectrum.
• Combined incremental production delivery with CI/CD integration and data-processing capabilities for the financial-technology platform.

Technology Stack: Cloud-native microservices, Appian BPM, CI/CD, SAFe, Agile methodologies, Java EE, AWS infrastructure, Snowflake data warehouse, AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3), Redshift Spectrum.

COMMON SECURITIZATION SOLUTIONS

Technical Lead

Provided technical leadership for issuance and interface modules of the Common Securitization Platform.

• Led A-Flow module engineering, combining mortgage-securitization domain knowledge with Java/J2EE, Oracle, event-driven architecture, and parallel processing.
• Won an internal Shark Tank innovation award and architected the Unified Cukes Framework to standardize testing across more than 13 development teams, reduce duplicated test code, and enable CI/CD.

Technology Stack: Java/J2EE, Oracle database, event-driven architecture, microservices architecture, parallel processing, Unified Cukes Framework, CI/CD.

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON

Lead Technologist

Provided technical leadership for FDA CDER regulatory-affairs platforms, spanning application architecture, data integration, and analytics.

• Led technical architecture and development for RAPID, incorporating FDA security requirements into platform design.
• Redesigned the E2B process for converting adverse-event data from RAPID into the FAERS system.
• Developed analytics capabilities using converged datasets and Hadoop, Accumulo, Hive, and AWS.

Technology Stack: Documentum, AtTask Panorama, SOA, Data transformation, Integration layers, Hadoop, Accumulo, Hive, Amazon Web Services, Big Data analytics.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY

Senior Professional Staff

Supported software-development oversight for the Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program as part of the government team and Software Working Group.

• Provided oversight across concurrent software-development efforts and coordinated inter-team dependencies for a mission-critical program.
• Applied a hybrid Agile approach alongside CMMI Level 5 practices to support disciplined delivery and program coordination.

Technology Stack: Agile methodologies, CMMI Level 5, SCRUM, Government contracting, Radar systems.

CACI INTERNATIONAL INC

Software Engineer - Lead

Led engineering for the Omega e-Discovery platform supporting Department of Justice litigation workflows.

• Developed full-text search and big-data capabilities using Solr and Hadoop, supporting a platform serving more than 50 active cases.
• Provided cross-functional technical leadership for Omega Lite and its integration with the Solr search engine.
• Architected the Omega Liferay Portal as a central source of case and administrative information for its user community.

Technology Stack: Solr, Hadoop, MapReduce, Liferay Portal, Oracle, VPD, JSR 286, dbdeploy, Big Data, e-Discovery, Litigation support, Oracle Text, NetOwl Text Mining, NLP, Java, Spring, JSP, GWT, JDBC, HTML, CSS, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Advanced Security.

SRA INTERNATIONAL

Senior Software Engineer

Developed resources for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Coordinating Center and Data Portal. Implemented features and resolved defects in genomic-data applications using Java, Spring, JSP, Google Web Toolkit, and JDBC.

Technology Stack: Oracle, Oracle Text, NetOwl Text Mining, NLP, Bioinformatics, Portal development, Database administration, Java, Spring, JSP, GWT, JDBC, HTML, CSS, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Warehouse Builder, ADDM, SQL Tuning Advisor (across SRA roles).

SRA INTERNATIONAL

Database Administrator

Created and maintained development and test databases for Georgia's Consumer Data Repository and Inquiry Management System.

Technology Stack: Oracle, Oracle Text, NetOwl Text Mining, NLP, Bioinformatics, Portal development, Database administration, Java, Spring, JSP, GWT, JDBC, HTML, CSS, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Warehouse Builder, ADDM, SQL Tuning Advisor (across SRA roles).

SRA INTERNATIONAL

Lead Developer/Database Administrator

Led development and database administration for NIAID's Enteropathogen Resource Integration Center (ERIC) bioinformatics portal, including project transition. Supported the ERIC Oracle database and tuned mixed-query performance with Oracle Text CTXCAT indexes and the CATSEARCH query operator.

Technology Stack: Oracle, Oracle Text, NetOwl Text Mining, NLP, Bioinformatics, Portal development, Database administration, Java, Spring, JSP, GWT, JDBC, HTML, CSS, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Warehouse Builder, ADDM, SQL Tuning Advisor (across SRA roles).

SRA INTERNATIONAL

Senior Software Engineer

Designed and implemented integrations bringing bioinformatics tools into the NIAID ERIC web portal. Built portal capabilities including a secure, JSR 286-compliant shared-calendar portlet for research collaboration.

Technology Stack: Oracle, Oracle Text, NetOwl Text Mining, NLP, Bioinformatics, Portal development, Database administration, Java, Spring, JSP, GWT, JDBC, HTML, CSS, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Warehouse Builder, ADDM, SQL Tuning Advisor (across SRA roles).

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Software Task Lead

Led the USAA website redesign using web content management and JSPs, managing delivery of a time-sensitive project.

Technology Stack: Java, J2EE, Oracle, CMMI Level 5, IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ-Series, S/390 mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IBM CICS, IBM WCM, JSP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Legacy system modernization, Event-driven architecture, Insurance systems (across TCS roles).

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Software Engineer

Developed and enhanced USAA's Policy Administration System across offshore and onsite delivery, including lifecycle ownership and production support for DAS and DDS components.

• Contributed to replacing a legacy mainframe auto-policy system with component-based services, multi-car capabilities, an online front end, and a separate quotation system.
• Used J2EE, IBM WebSphere, MQ-Series, and Oracle to connect modern application components with legacy systems.
• Worked within a CMMI Level 5 development process, using unit and integration testing to support release quality.

Technology Stack: Java, J2EE, Oracle, CMMI Level 5, IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ-Series, S/390 mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IBM CICS, IBM WCM, JSP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Legacy system modernization, Event-driven architecture, Insurance systems (across TCS roles).