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Platform & Security Engineer with hands-on experience designing, automating, and securing scalable infrastructure in production environments. I specialize in building reliable platforms with a focus on infrastructure automation, observability, security, and compliance within regulated, high-availability systems. My expertise spans platform engineering, security operations, and data infrastructure, supporting the full system lifecycle from bare-metal and virtualization to containerized workloads and compliance-driven environments. Core Areas of Expertise 1. Infrastructure, Observability & Monitoring Centralized Visibility: Designed and maintained monitoring and logging stacks using Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Kibana. Real-time Insights: Provided end-to-end visibility across servers, firewalls, Docker workloads, and Kubernetes clusters. 2. Platform Automation & Configuration Management Infrastructure as Code: Automated provisioning and application deployment using Ansible. Efficiency: Significantly reduced manual operations while improving consistency, reliability, and operational speed. 3. Security Engineering & Compliance Hardening: Implemented FIPS-enabled systems, SSH with 2FA, and secure system baselines. Zero Trust: Deployed Cloudflare Zero Trust (WAF, Tunnels, and access policies). Frameworks: Supported environments aligned with NIST 800-series and FedRAMP-related controls. 4. Virtualization & Container Platforms Orchestration: Delivered production workloads using Docker and Kubernetes. Virtualization: Provisioned and managed infrastructure via Proxmox. 5. Data & Platform Operations Data Pipelines: Operated and optimized data platforms including Kafka, Apache NiFi, and StreamSets. Enterprise Search: Managed Cloudera, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch to ensure high availability and secure data flows. 6. Resilience & Disaster Recovery Business Continuity: Designed backup and DR strategies using Veeam across virtualized and hybrid environments to ensure data integrity. Technical Ownership I take end-to-end responsibility for platform and security initiatives, bridging the gap between development, infrastructure, and security teams. I am passionate about building systems that are not only secure and reliable but also scalable and adaptable to evolving business and compliance requirements.