12+ years of hands-on software and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams and managing managers
Deep, production-grade experience with Kubernetes at scale — multi-cluster and multi-tenant operations, upgrade strategy, workload isolation, autoscaling, and the failure modes you only learn about the hard way
Experience operating across more than one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and a clear point of view on where multi-cloud pays for itself and where it doesn't
Strong background in infrastructure-as-code and declarative operations (Terraform, Helm, GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux)
Track record building highly available, secure distributed systems and the observability to run them (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting that people actually trust)
Experience with service networking and service mesh technologies, and with securing traffic and identity across cloud boundaries
Demonstrated ability to improve developer experience measurably — build and deploy times, environment provisioning, self-service platform capabilities
Experience partnering with security and regulatory oversight functions in a regulated environment; comfort with least-privilege, key management, and audit requirements
Experience with Agile development, with a focus on robust design, scalability, and security
Solid leadership and communication skills, with the judgment to know when to decide, when to delegate, and when to dig in yourself
Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team, with a positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar
Experience in FinTech, payments, or crypto infrastructure
Familiarity with blockchain node operations
Exposure to hardware security modules or high-assurance key management systems