As a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) specializing in databases, data platforms, and platform engineering, I design, secure, and optimize high-performance data infrastructures within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. My work ensures data integrity, confidentiality, and availability across diverse, large-scale systems.

Currently, I am pursuing an M.S. in Cybersecurity with a 4.0 GPA and intend to advance my studies towards a D.Sc. or Ph.D. in Cyberpsychology. I am fascinated by the intersection of security and psychology—exploring how they interact online to shape user behavior and enhance cybersecurity measures. The harmony of these elements is beautiful to me.

Whether optimizing performance, automating critical tasks, or responding to incidents, I focus on protecting organizational assets and ensuring the secure, timely operation of mission-critical applications.

I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience

Senior Data SRE - NetSkope (2023 to Present)

Santa Clara, California (Remote)

• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and timely delivery by maintaining secure, high-availability pipelines, enforcing stringent latency standards, and actively monitoring for unauthorized access or anomalies.
• Architect, design, and implement scalable, secure, high-performance data platforms—emphasizing data sovereignty, encryption, hardened access controls, and cloud-native best practices to safeguard sensitive information.
• Optimize and maintain large-scale, clustered environments (on-prem, cloud VMs, Kubernetes, bare metal) with secure configurations, regular patching, vulnerability remediation, and robust backup/restore strategies, ensuring continuous availability and integrity.
• Enforce strict compliance with data privacy, tenancy, and sovereignty regulations (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), conducting regular production audits, ensuring data residency adherence, and proactively mitigating risks through stringent governance frameworks.
• Streamline deployments and maintenance using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, embedding security checks, automated vulnerability scanning, and secrets management to reduce human error, ensure compliance, and maintain end-to-end protection.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to define secure service interfaces and prototypes, unify data governance, integrate threat modeling, and adopt zero-trust principles to minimize the attack surface and prevent breaches.
• Champion cross-team communication and continuous improvement by enhancing observability for early detection of security threats, refining incident response runbooks, and performing thorough post-incident analyses to bolster resilience.
• Align technical efforts with business objectives while maintaining robust security measures, balancing cost efficiency against evolving threats, and continuously evaluating emerging tools and frameworks to advance the organization’s overall security posture.

Senior Database & Systems Engineer - Disney (2016-2023)

Palo Alto, California & San Jose, California (Remote)

• Owned end-to-end architecture, deployment, and management of BigQuery and big data solutions for multiple Disney divisions, enforcing strict security (access, encryption, data classification, DLP) and implementing and routinely testing backups.
• Developed and executed security-focused monitoring and alerting (metrics, logs, tracing, anomaly detection) to identify threats rapidly and exceed SLOs/KPIs.
• Architected and maintained multi-cloud databases (MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra) with secure baselines, RBAC, encryption, segmentation, and continuous patching to ensure compliance and protection.
• Achieved cost savings through GCP expertise while maintaining security guardrails and regulatory adherence.
• Ensured reliability and security with data residency, HA/DR, encryption, and controlled access, serving hundreds of developers and decision-makers.
• Implemented zero-trust database reliability solutions across multi-cloud/hybrid environments, integrating isolated networks, automated backups/restores, and continuous threat assessments.