Resume — Sales Engineer track

Updated July 2026

DevOps/SRE engineer pivoting into Sales/Solutions Engineering. Nine years building and operating the infrastructure that SE teams sell — AWS migrations, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tooling. Deployed Datadog in production as an end user before ever pitching it, and spent years translating system behavior into dashboards and findings for non-specialist stakeholders.

Experience

  1. DevOps EngineerRen
    Jun 2024 - PresentAustin, TX
    • Deployed Datadog as the team's observability platform end-to-end — configuration, integrations, and rollout — giving firsthand implementer experience with the exact product category Datadog SEs sell.
    • Led migration of CI/CD pipelines from TeamCity to GitHub Actions, evaluating tooling tradeoffs and presenting the migration plan to stakeholders.
    • Migrated on-premise infrastructure to AWS, regularly explaining architecture decisions and tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences.
    • Provisioned cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform across production environments.
    • Adopted AI coding tools into daily workflows, evaluating and pitching new tooling to the team.
  2. Senior Site Reliability EngineerRen
    Feb 2023 - Jun 2024Austin, TX
    • Built operational dashboards in the Elastic Stack that translated raw system telemetry into findings non-technical stakeholders could act on.
    • Developed PowerShell automation modules, reducing manual workload and freeing time for higher-value technical conversations with internal teams.
    • Standardized Windows Server patch management via Microsoft Endpoint Manager, presenting the rollout plan across teams.
  3. Senior Site Reliability EngineerStellar Technology Solutions (acq. by Ren)
    Nov 2022 - May 2023Austin, TX
    • Led migration of on-premise workloads to AWS, acting as the technical point of contact across the transition.
    • Maintained infrastructure stability throughout a major migration — the kind of technical trust-building a POC or pilot depends on.
    • Built internal monitoring tools and automation scripts, then walked teams through how and why they worked.
  4. Site Reliability EngineerStellar Technology Solutions (acq. by Ren)
    Apr 2021 - Nov 2022Austin, TX
    • Partnered daily with Engineering, Security, QA, and Product — the same cross-functional muscle an SE uses bridging sales and engineering.
    • Wrote runbooks that turned tribal knowledge into documentation other teams could self-serve from.
    • Drove the company's initial AWS integration, scoping and pitching the technical case for cloud adoption internally.
    • Participated in on-call incident response — deep, first-hand familiarity with the operational pain points technical buyers are trying to solve.
  5. Junior Systems AdministratorStellar Technology Solutions (acq. by Ren)
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2021Austin, TX
    • Supported day-to-day IT operations and systems administration in a growing engineering organization.
  6. Systems AdministratorCummings Electrical
    May 2016 - Aug 2019Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
    • Built and scaled a standardized IT environment supporting 350+ employees across 15+ locations.
    • Owned remote access tooling, backup/restore, and Windows Server administration for a small IT team.

Skills

Customer-Facing Technical Skills

  • Technical demos & walkthroughs
  • Dashboard & findings presentation
  • Cross-functional stakeholder communication
  • Runbook & documentation writing
  • Discovery & requirements translation

Cloud & Observability

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Datadog
  • Elastic Stack
  • GitHub Actions
  • Octopus Deploy

Infrastructure

  • Windows Server
  • Active Directory
  • VMware ESXi
  • Hyper-V
  • Nutanix
  • Networking (DNS/VPN/Cisco)

Scripting & Automation

  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Bash

Certifications

Education

University of Montana - Geoscience