About

About.

I’ve spent 25 years in tech, the last 12 at Oracle, the last 8 running SRE and Platform Engineering for OCI Object Storage.

By the time I left, that business was $600 million ARR, 10 exabytes of customer data, growing 100 percent year over year — with Cloudflare, Meta, Uber, and OpenAI on it. I take this work seriously because storage at hyperscale is one of the few places where reliability, customer trust, and the architecture choices you make today all show up in the same conversation 18 months later.

Two stories

What I’m proudest of.

Two stories probably tell you most about me.

01

The platform organization I built.

I grew it from 5 to 45 engineers across four geographies, with managers in each location and a senior bench underneath me. The work I’m proudest of isn’t the headcount — it’s that we shifted the operating model. Service teams stopped doing their own region builds, their own pre-production qualification, their own fleet management. They consumed platforms my org built.

Production rollbacks dropped 60 percent per service. Build times dropped 80 percent. Change-caused incidents dropped 50 percent. The leverage compounds when service teams stop reinventing.

02

OpenAI.

$100 million engagement, 15 Tbps bandwidth, the first customized Object Storage at production scale. We delivered in three months.

That experience taught me what AI workloads actually do to storage at scale, and it shaped most of my thinking about where this field is going next.

What’s next

Building what comes next.

I left Oracle at the end of March as part of a reduction in force. In June I joined Nscale as Principal Infrastructure Engineer, applying SRE and incident-management practice to GPU cloud operations.

My conviction: the next generation of platform engineering is self-healing systems that teams consume and enhance with AI — not AI replacing operators.

I wrote about it in a LinkedIn piece called The 3 AM Page That Convinced Me AI Alone Won’t Fix Ops, and I recently spoke about it at BayLISA. If any of this overlaps with what you’re working on, I’d like to hear from you.

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