• 25+Years in delivery
• 230+Apps to modern CI/CD
• 2.4×AI-adoption lift
• 2014Texas DevOps founder

I've spent more than two decades helping engineering organizations ship software faster and more safely — from hands-on automation to leading DevOps transformation at enterprise scale. Today I'm a Senior Manager at Accenture, focused on where DevOps is heading next: autonomous AI agents that don't just run the pipeline, but reason about it.

What I work on

My day-to-day lives at the crossroads of DevOps, cloud, and AI: CI/CD and delivery optimization, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, and — increasingly — agentic systems that automate the judgment work, not just the mechanics. I care a lot about doing this securely: least privilege, human-in-the-loop for the irreversible, and auditable autonomy.

In practice that spans a wide range of engagements: leading enterprise DevSecOps transformation for a major energy utility, building adoption and ROI dashboards that quantify the business impact of platform investments, and architecting cloud-native delivery on AWS. Alongside the client work, I build my own systems to stay close to the craft — from autonomous agent frameworks to data-driven research apps.

Tools I reach for most: Terraform and AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3), Python with FastAPI, Docker, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD — and, increasingly, the Anthropic Claude API and the Model Context Protocol for building agents.

Experience

A decade at a global consultancy leading a North America DevOps/DevSecOps and platform-engineering practice — I scaled the team 100% (20→50), sustained >90% chargeability, and own the practice P&L. Before that, enterprise solutions architecture and professional-services leadership at DevOps/ALM software vendors; I started out in UNIX/AIX systems and network engineering across the US and UK.

Selected engagements — clients anonymized by industry and scale:

• Oil & energy Designed an enterprise SRE capability and led the IT-resiliency program for a global energy major — assessing 100+ Tier-1 critical applications and transforming a 30+ product portfolio to SAFe, DevOps, and SRE.
• Financial services Led enterprise DevOps adoption at a Fortune 500 asset manager, onboarding 230+ applications to modern CI/CD, branching, and release automation.
• Telecom & finance Built an AWS automation delivery factory and geo-distributed DevOps capability for a major US telecom and a federal mortgage enterprise.
• Pharmaceuticals Chief architect for a DevOps operating model, maturity model, and roadmap across analytics and BI platforms at a global pharmaceutical company.
• Retail Migrated 6,000+ developers onto a SaaS ALM platform in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program for a Fortune 1 retailer.
• Life sciences · current Leading AI-in-SDLC strategy, governance, and value measurement for a Fortune 500 biopharma developer org (~600 GitLab Duo seats).

Along the way: an MBA (Heriot-Watt), a BA in Computer Science & Classical Studies (Kent), SAFe / AWS / Azure certifications, and talks at Jenkins World, DevOps Days, and Agile conferences.

Building in the open

My flagship project is the DevOps Agentic Framework — an autonomous, multi-agent platform where specialized Claude-powered agents generate code, run pipelines, enforce policy, and manage cloud infrastructure. It's the practical expression of everything I write about here. I've also been building an equities research app for US markets, and I founded the Texas DevOps community back in 2014 to bring practitioners together.

You can see a fuller rundown of what I build and lead on the projects page.

Why this blog

This is my public notebook — build logs, security-minded takes on AI, and the occasional deep dive into fundamentals. Writing forces precision; if I can't explain why an approach works, I probably don't understand it yet.

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