Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP)

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As the president of Harvard Toastmasters club, I help the team of officers run the club operations smoothly and to help the members achieve their public speaking and leadership goals in the Toastmasters journey

President

As VP of Membership at Harvard Toastmasters Club, I had the privilege of helping many guests begin their Toastmasters journey, and helping current members to improve their public speaking skills and become better leaders.

Vice President Of Membership

Bachelor of computer science

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Designed the multi-account AWS cloud infrastructure (IAM, VPC, ECS, Route53 etc.) for migrating the Paydiant core platform to public cloud. This is a hybrid design, where HSM and some partner connectivity stays in the datacenter. Also co-designed and implemented the AWS cloud infrastructure (IAM, VPC, EC2, Docker, SNS, Route53, S3 etc.), monitoring (Datadog & Splunk) and on-call operations runbooks for the Paydiant Fuel platform

Introduced IaC (Terraform) to Paydiant and co-implemented Paydiant infrastructure in AWS using IaC

Senior Systems Engineer

Lead infrastructure operations, devops, and InfoSec activities of the Simility platform (part of PayPal), which was deployed 100% on GCP

Manager Infra & Operations - Simility

• Led the SRE, DevOps, and Information Security teams, ensuring reliability, security, and performance of the company's core platform.
• Designed and implemented a multi-account AWS infrastructure, leveraging Terraform to automate the deployment of critical services.
• Drove PCI, SOC2, and HIPAA compliance efforts, securing vital certifications for the company.
• Rolled out key operational process and procedures including on-call rotations and incident response.

Senior Director of SRE

•	Led and managed the MIS team who were responsible for IT operations and technical support for internal and external clients
•	Participated in decision-making related to IT infrastructure and policies
•	Designed infrastructure projects for clients, and provided consultation on performance, security and deployment aspects collaborating with the development and management teams located in the US

Manager, MIS

•	Built the SRE/infrastructure team from the ground up
•	Owned and lead infrastructure operations and security operations for two product platforms
•	Rolled out Scrum and Kanban processes for SRE team and IT team, and lead the continuous prioritization of security and reliability projects
•	Sponsored and oversaw the migration of all source code from CVS to GitLab, and rolling out GitLab based code-review processes
•	Rolled out Splunk for application log centralization, and built dashboards to monitor latency, performance and throughput
•	Rolled out PagerDuty based on-call rotations for the SRE team and the development team
•	Migrated the on-prem virtualization platform from VMWare to Nutanix
•	Oversaw the rollout of active-active database replication between primary and disaster recovery data centers
•	Exceeded SLA expectations of both product platforms of Aliaswire

Director of SRE

Led the MIS team who were responsible for IT operations and technical support for internal and external clients

•	Designed and implemented Stand Alone Stand In (SASI) failover system for Paydiant production environment
•	Designed, implemented and maintained the software release platform comprised of multiple technology stacks – Jenkins, Maven, Git, SVN, Xcode, Linux, Mac OS X

Systems/Release Engineer

Senior Release Engineer

•	Automated zero-downtime deployments of the Paydiant platform, using Puppet, Mco and Jenkins
•	Performed weekly and monthly software release deployments to different testing and production environments
•	Maintained the software release platform comprised of multiple technology stacks – Jenkins, Maven, Git, SVN, Xcode, Linux, Mac OS X
•	Migrated payment encryption keys to HSM (Hardware Security Module), coordinating with the Development and Security teams
•	Maintained distributed cache (Terracotta) and messaging (RabbitMQ) infrastructures in non-production and production environments
•	On-call technical support for the Paydiant platform

•	Designed, implemented and maintained the network infrastructure connecting the head office and the branch office. Coordinated activities with the ISP, internal teams and management
•	Managed Internet bandwidth resources from multiple Internet Service Providers, using Linux Advance Routing technologies
•	Implemented VoIP PABX (Asterisk) that provided telephone services to the company
•	Provided consultancy for client projects related to application performance, security and deployment aspects collaborating with the development and management teams located in the US

Systems Engineer

• Direct the strategic vision for public and private cloud infrastructure operations, IT operations, and product platform reliability (SRE & DevOps).
• Lead information security initiatives aligned with the NIST CSF, ensuring compliance with PCI, SOC2, and HIPAA standards.
• Spearheaded the company’s transition from the PCI 3.2.1 framework to the more advanced PCI 4.0 standard, ensuring compliance with the latest security requirements.
• Spearheaded a cloud migration of a payment product platform from on-premise to AWS, actively leading architectural design and implementation of infrastructure as code.
• Mentor cross-functional teams, ensuring operational excellence and platform security across the organization.

CISO & VP of Technical Operations

- Managed and lead the PayPal Instore (WLW) systems engineering team
- Co-led and successfully migrated  the Paydianbt payment platform to AWS: in this project, I led the cloud solution architecture, provided vision and direction for the project team, and also was a key hands-on contributor (terraform, ansible, jenkins, AWS solutions architecture)
- Collaborated with the development counterparts and helped shaping the devops roadmap for the business unit

Manager Systems Engineering

•	Installed and configured Linux based gateway router and “iptables” firewall
•	Wrote bash and perl scripts to load balance Internet traffic through multiple ISPs
•	Installed and configured Bind DNS, Squid Proxy, DHCP and MRTG servers
•	Installed and configured CVS, SVN, FTP and Web servers

Linux Administrator

AI Enablement Lead

9-5 dad, 20y in tech, ex PayPal → indie maker at 43yo 🔥

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