I run the data platforms capital markets can't afford to lose. Zero downtime. Every time.
20+ years running mission-critical SQL Server and AWS infrastructure for global financial data platforms. I own the standards, the cost governance, and the on-call pager - not just the tickets.
What I focus on
FinOps & cost governance
I built the tag-based cost model close to 100 AWS accounts now run on — the primary FinOps reporting mechanism for the org.
Cloud migration, without the war story
Mission-critical estates move to cloud-native architecture on my sequencing — nothing critical is ever the experiment.
Standards that outlast me
Review boards and published patterns I've put in place now govern reliability decisions I'm not even in the room for.
Recent writing
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Migration
Consolidating a fragmented SQL Server estate is a governance problem first
Merging a sprawling set of siloed database clusters into one shared platform sounds like an architecture project. The part that actually determines whether it works is governance.
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FinOps
Your cloud cost data is lying to you (here's the fix)
Resource IDs churn every time an image refreshes. Tags don't — but only if you design the taxonomy right, not retrofit it.