Data Platform & Cloud Architecture — Capital Markets

I turn database estates into cost-efficient, cloud-native platforms — and the case studies to prove it.

Associate Director & Principal Database Engineer with 15+ years running mission-critical data infrastructure for global financial data platforms. AWS & Azure certified. I write here about FinOps, cloud migration, and what it actually takes to modernize an enterprise database estate without breaking it.

fig. 01 — how the pieces relate, drawn the way I'd draw any system I'm asked to explain

SELECT focus FROM career WHERE outcome = 'measurable' AND domain = 'capital_markets';

$295K+annualized cloud cost savings delivered in a single quarter

Zero downtimeon infrastructure changes supporting a marquee capital-markets event

24×traffic-spike root cause isolated for a top-tier financial institution

What I focus on

FinOps & cost governance

Building tag-based cost visibility and optimization across large multi-account cloud estates — turning infrastructure spend into a story leadership can act on.

Cloud migration

Moving mission-critical SQL Server and database estates into cloud-native architectures without disrupting the business that depends on them.

Platform architecture

Setting the standards, review processes, and deployment patterns that let a database organization scale past any one person's judgment calls.

Recent writing

2026
— FinOps
Why tag-based identity beats resource IDs for cloud cost tracking

Resource IDs churn every time an image refreshes. Tags don't — if you design the taxonomy right. Notes from building cost governance across a large multi-account estate.

Read all posts →