About
Builder, operator, writer.
I'm Joey, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at OncoLens and a Georgia Tech computer engineer who has spent more than a decade keeping production systems up, from bare-metal closets to global Linux fleets to Kubernetes.
My career has run on two tracks at once. At Haste I managed hundreds of Linux servers across dozens of hosting providers on a custom overlay network, built the Ansible, CI/CD, and monitoring around them, and cut infrastructure cost by 75%. At the same time I've been the entire IT department for Benamy International, a 40-person company: server consolidation, an Office 365 migration, Meraki networking, PCI audits, and the help desk.
That mix taught me the thing I write about most: the best infrastructure is the boring, well-paved road that makes the right way the easy way. I call it the golden path. These days I do that work at OncoLens, and I write it up at Golden Path DevOps.
I was also a founding member of Localhost, a free Slack community for IT, security, and DevOps folks who'd rather automate it than do it twice.
Résumé
Where I've been
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OncoLens
Atlanta, GA
Feb 2023 – Present
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2021 – Feb 2023
Site Reliability Engineer
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Benamy International, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Jan 2016 – Present
Director of Information Technology
Coordinate IT projects and run IT operations for a 40-person company.
- Consolidated a dozen bare-metal servers into Hyper-V and renovated the server room
- Migrated on-prem Exchange 2010 and Active Directory to Office 365
- Moved all networking to Cisco Meraki with dual-WAN link aggregation and failover
- Replaced a 15-year-old Mitel VoIP system and legacy backup/DR (Backup Exec → ShadowProtect)
- Own PCI and Microsoft licensing compliance audits and business continuity planning
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Localhost
Remote
Nov 2022 – Mar 2024
Founding Member
Helped found a free Slack community for IT, security, and DevOps professionals built around automation-first thinking.
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Haste
Atlanta, GA
Aug 2018 – Jun 2021
DevOps Engineer
- Reduced infrastructure cost by 75%
- Ran hundreds of Linux servers across dozens of hosting providers worldwide on a custom overlay network
- Built Ansible provisioning and maintenance playbooks; CI/CD on Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins to AWS ECS
- Built a client-server load-testing suite on ECS and WAN optimization techniques for UDP traffic
- Monitoring with Datadog, Site24x7, Observium, and PagerDuty; data pipelines on Athena, Redshift, and Fivetran
- Prototyped an embedded product on Raspberry Pi with Yocto and Mender OTA updates
Nov 2015 – Jun 2021
Community Manager
Ran marketing and customer operations: focus-group testing, marketing automation, Zendesk support, Stripe billing, and SaaS funnel optimization.
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Cambridge Investment Research
Atlanta, GA
May 2014 – Aug 2014
Software Engineer
Prototyped a company-wide .NET application platform with DDD and TDD; evaluated NServiceBus, MassTransit, RabbitMQ, and SQL Service Broker.
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CafePress
Atlanta, GA
May 2013 – Aug 2013
Software Engineer
Built event-driven .NET services, refactored the data layer, and sped up the notification delivery system.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Computer Engineering · 2010 – 2015
Toolbox
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Linux
- Networking
- Cost optimization
- Incident response
- Agile