About
Lancaster University graduate (B.S. Software Engineering) with 5+ years designing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Currently CISO at Athena Security Group, leading the SOC 2 program and security oversight across the company’s cloud and SaaS estate.
Education
Lancaster University, UK
B.S. Software Engineering · 2014 – 2018
Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional
- AWS Solutions Architect — Associate
- AWS Certified Developer — Associate
- Google Cloud — Associate Cloud Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Skills
AWSAzureGCPEKSECSLambda
API GatewayCloudFrontCognitoTerraform
TerragruntCDKCDK-TFCloudFormation
JenkinsGitHub ActionsCircleCICodePipeline
ArgoCDDockerKubernetesHelm
AnsibleChefPuppetPythonGolang
TypeScriptBashSSMPagerDuty
TailscaleNetboxElasticSearchDatadog
SplunkGrafanaPrometheusCloudWatch
New RelicIstioSOC 2Well-Architected
JIRAConfluence
Work Experience
Chief Information Security Officer
Athena Security Group, LLC · Jul 2025 — Present
- Lead the company-wide information security program
- Own SOC 2 governance, risk management, control coordination
- Security oversight across AWS, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Defender/Intune
- Partner with executive leadership, engineering, and SecOps
- Coordinate controls: access mgmt, vuln mgmt, endpoint, backups, vendor risk
Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Freelance)
Upwork · Jan 2024 — Present
- EventBridge + Lambda for org-wide API tracking with auto-remediation
- Auto-remediation: S3 PAB, public-SSH SG rules, missing tags
- SCPs blocking non-compliant resource creation
- SSO login forensics, brute-force alerts, Tailscale IP tracking
- Daily/weekly/monthly per-user cost reports for active resources
- GovCloud account provisioning via Terraform
- Central SSM Documents running custom scripts on EC2 launch
- Scalable AWS architectures (EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront) via Terraform/CDK
- CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, CodePipeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Kaleidoscope · 2023 — 2024
- Migrated CI/CD from GitLab to GitHub Actions
- Terragrunt-based infra across multiple client environments
- Built org-wide API call tracking solution
- Enhanced existing Golang applications
- Cloud9 setups improving developer deployment velocity
DevOps Engineer / Python Developer
Enquizit, Inc. (AWS Premier Partner) · Nov 2019 — Jun 2023
- Migrated infrastructure on-prem & multi-cloud → AWS
- Containerized microservices on EKS & ECS Fargate
- Serverless apps with AWS Lambda (Python) & GCP Cloud Functions
- IaC: CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK
- Optimized healthcare app reliability & automated microservice deployment
Selected Projects
SkyMap
Enquizit · DevOps + Python
- AMI pipeline via Packer; multi-env CloudFormation
- Microservices on EKS & ECS via CircleCI
- Serverless Framework APIs in Python (Cognito-auth)
- Internal ElasticSearch for dev logging
NEMSIS — National Emergency Medical Services Info System
Migration + DevOps + Python
- Migrated WordPress on-prem → AWS ECS Fargate
- Multi-origin CloudFront (S3 + EFS) with Lambda@Edge
- SAM-based APIs on RDS MSSQL
Rebuild Ukraine
DevOps + Python
- Aurora Serverless (Postgres) with Cognito-auth APIs
- Private S3 frontend behind CloudFront
- PyTest coverage on serverless Lambdas
iModal
Migration + DevOps + Python
- Landing Zone & Control Tower setup
- Cross-account migration via CloudFormation
- Domain migration GoDaddy → Route53; SES/Workmail
- DynamoDB-backed signup/contact + QuickSight dashboards
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Migration & Discovery + DevOps
- 800 on-prem server discovery & cost analysis
- Monolith → microservices, Dockerfiles from scratch
- EKS deployments with Serverless Cognito-auth APIs
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
DevOps + Python
- Multibranch CodePipeline + Lambdas, cross-account deploys
- Infra & pipeline stacks in SAM and CDK
- Org-wide alert manager creating alarms on resource creation
- Secure S3-from-QuickSight delivery pattern
SkyTracker
Enquizit · DevOps Engineer
- Multi-env CloudFormation with ACM SSL
- Docker multi-build & CircleCI to ECS
- MSSQL RDS backing