About Me

I'm Jonathan -- a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer who got here the long way. It started in 1999, on a hand-me-down PC running Linux, back when telnet was still socially acceptable and "the cloud" was something you looked at out the window.

I learned to break things, fix them, and automate the boring parts. By the mid-2000s I was writing PERL and PHP -- cron jobs, web scripts, and the kind of glue code that keeps systems talking to each other. That led to real sysadmin work: patch management, config drift, and the first taste of "if I have to do this twice, I'm scripting it."

From there it was a straight line to configuration management (Puppet, then Ansible), CI/CD (Jenkins, then GitHub Actions), and eventually Kubernetes and platform engineering. I've run production at scale at Rackspace, built greenfield EKS and service mesh at Doximity, shipped LinkerD and FedRAMP-grade mTLS at Mezmo, and now lead cross-functional Kubernetes and platform initiatives at Activtrak -- Pulumi, GKE, Helm, and the rest of the modern stack.

I still believe in understanding the full stack: not just the apps, but the infrastructure they run on, the pipelines that deploy them, and the policies that keep them secure. If you're looking for someone who can own the platform and ship with the team, let's talk.