William – Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps

An AI-powered SaaS platform that enables product teams to design, deploy, and operate intelligent applications on AWS. This is a multi-tenant platform serving both internal engineering teams and paying enterprise customers, requiring production-grade infrastructure delivered with the operational simplicity of a managed service.

William joined as Lead Platform Engineer to design the entire cloud infrastructure and GitOps architecture from scratch — spanning a multi-account AWS Organization, a composable Terraform module library, an ArgoCD-based GitOps delivery system with 40+ parameterized Helm templates, and a code generation system that provisions a complete new customer environment through a single command.

• Designed and implemented a multi-account AWS Organization architecture with dedicated accounts for identity, audit, DNS, networking, platform, and per-customer workloads;
• Built a reusable Terraform component library (28+ modules) with a catalog-based inheritance pattern, enabling full environment provisioning through minimal YAML configuration;
• Architected a multi-tenant EKS platform supporting both shared-namespace and dedicated-account customer tiers on the same codebase;
• Designed and maintained the GitOps repository structure using the ArgoCD App-of-Apps pattern, serving as the single source of truth for all cluster workloads;
• Developed a custom Helm chart (platform-library) with 40+ parameterized templates covering autoscaling, service mesh, secrets, observability, policy, and data services;
• Integrated Istio service mesh with dual NLB gateways (public and private) and automated DNS via External DNS extended to Istio VirtualService resources;
• Implemented a four-layer secrets architecture using Vault, Bank-Vaults, External Secrets Operator, and Vault Config Operator;
• Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with OIDC-based AWS authentication, affected-stack detection, plan/apply automation, and scheduled drift detection;
• Designed and implemented Karpenter node autoscaling with multi-family spot instance pools, Fargate bootstrap, and environment-tuned disruption budgets;
• Created a code generation system (_catalyst-blueprints) with stack-aware scaffolding for infrastructure, GitOps, frontend, backend, and AI agent repositories;
• Enforced cluster-wide policy using Kyverno for workload standards, registry restrictions, and namespace isolation rules;
• Established an AI-assisted spec-driven development workflow (Speckit) embedded as custom slash commands across all platform repositories.

An engineering platform of a national primary care company operating hundreds of physician-led clinics across the United States, delivering value-based care at scale. The goal was to modernize the platform and accelerate its cloud-native transformation.

William joined the engagement as a Senior Platform Engineer, responsible for assessing the existing infrastructure, redesigning the Kubernetes and IaC architecture from the ground up, and delivering the GitOps, CI/CD, and developer tooling foundations that teams across the organization rely on to build and ship applications.

• Performed discovery and assessment of the existing platform and infrastructure architecture;
• Designed and refactored reusable Terraform modules to standardize Infrastructure as Code across environments;
• Designed the Kubernetes platform architecture to support scalable and reliable application deployment;
• Defined CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure and application delivery workflows;
• Designed GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD for multi-environment Kubernetes application delivery;
• Developed Kubernetes Operators in Go to automate platform operations and application lifecycle management;
• Designed and maintained reusable Helm charts for application deployment and operational consistency;
• Implemented Kubernetes DNS automation through Cloudflare and Route 53 integrations;
• Designed Kubernetes Preview Environments to accelerate development, validation, and testing workflows;
• Led the containerization of existing applications to improve portability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency;
• Designed and integrated Datadog as the unified observability platform, covering Kubernetes cluster monitoring, application performance monitoring, infrastructure metrics, log aggregation, alerting, and AWS cloud cost management.

Ford is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers, operating a global engineering and technology organization that builds the software and cloud infrastructure powering its vehicles and digital products. The goal was to modernize their containerized development platform on Red Hat OpenShift and Google Kubernetes Engine.

William joined the engagement as a Senior Platform Engineer, responsible for designing the full infrastructure and CI/CD architecture on GCP, building containerized development environments, and serving as the subject-matter expert bridging the company's engineering requirements with Red Hat's product roadmap.

• Designed containerized development environments to run on Red Hat OpenShift and Google Kubernetes Engine;
• Designed the Infrastructure as Code architecture using Terraform on Google Cloud Platform;
• Designed the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment architecture using Tekton for automated application delivery;
• Managed the company's product feature requests to Red Hat, acting as subject matter expert for both the company's and Red Hat engineering teams.

A leading financial technology platform that democratizes access to alternative investments and structured notes, connecting thousands of independent financial advisors with top-tier asset managers and bank issuers across the wealth management ecosystem. The goal was to support the company's cloud transformation, migrating its infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS and modernizing its engineering platform.

William joined the engagement as Senior Platform Engineer and de facto technical lead, responsible for designing the full AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD architecture, driving the cloud migration strategy, and integrating the client's engineering team into the new technology stack.

• Designed AWS cloud solutions to support CAIS's infrastructure migration and modernization;
• Designed Kubernetes architectures to support the migration from Rackspace to AWS;
• Designed Terraform architectures to provision and manage CAIS's infrastructure on AWS;
• Designed migration strategies from multiple cloud providers to AWS;
• Containerized Go applications to improve deployment consistency and portability;
• Designed Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines for all products and services;
• Designed GitOps-based application deployment workflows on Kubernetes using ArgoCD;
• Integrated the client's engineering team into the new technologies and tools, serving as the natural technical lead.

A global hospitality company that designs and operates premium meeting, event, and flexible office spaces across 38 locations in North America and the UK, serving enterprises that require full-service venues with technology-enabled facilities and in-house support. William joined the engagement as Platform Engineer, responsible for designing the cloud, Kubernetes, and Terraform architecture, and driving the deployment of containerized applications on Amazon ECS.

• Designed AWS cloud solutions to support Convene's infrastructure and application platform;
• Designed Kubernetes architectures on Amazon EKS to modernize the application platform;
• Designed Terraform architecture and modules to provision and manage Convene's infrastructure on AWS;
• Deployed containerized applications to Amazon ECS;
• Initiated the migration strategy from Amazon ECS to Amazon EKS.
• Designed reusable Terraform modules to provision and manage Amazon EKS clusters;
• Integrated External DNS with Route53 for automated Kubernetes DNS management;
• Integrated External Secrets Operator with Amazon Secrets Manager for secure secret management;
• Configured Amazon VPN to provide secure private access to the Amazon EKS cluster;
• Designed Helm charts to deploy Golang applications on Kubernetes using ArgoCD.

A fleet safety technology company that designs and manufactures smart safety solutions — including AI-powered cameras, video surveillance, license plate recognition, and cloud-based evidence management — serving school districts, transit agencies, law enforcement, and waste management organizations worldwide. Endava was engaged as a technology partner to modernize SafeFleet's cloud infrastructure across multiple providers. Wiliam joined the engagement as Senior Platform Engineer, responsible for designing cloud architectures on AWS and GCP, leading the migration strategy to Azure, and delivering Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible-based configuration management, and CI/CD across the platform.

• Designed AWS cloud solutions to support SafeFleet's infrastructure and application platform;
• Designed Kubernetes architectures to support scalable and reliable application deployment;
• Designed Terraform architecture to provision and manage infrastructure across GCP and AWS;
• Designed migration strategies from AWS to Azure;
• Designed and implemented configuration management for all applications using Ansible;
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines for all products and services.

One of the world's largest entertainment and media companies, operating a vast portfolio of streaming platforms, theme parks, studios, and digital products that serve hundreds of millions of consumers globally. Globant was engaged as a technology partner to support Disney's engineering platform. William joined the engagement as Platform Engineer, working on the cloud infrastructure and container platform using Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Golang.

• Maintained and operated Kubernetes-based development environments on AWS;
• Managed infrastructure provisioning using Terraform;
• Managed and monitored application deployments on Kubernetes;
• Troubleshot and resolved platform and infrastructure issues.

A specialized IT services company operating across Colombia, the United States, Spain, Mexico, and Panama, delivering cloud, infrastructure, and software engineering solutions to enterprise clients across multiple industries. Working across several client engagements simultaneously, William served as a senior technical reference for cloud and infrastructure architecture, covering GCP and AWS cloud design, Kubernetes platform architecture, Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, Ansible configuration management, and Oracle database administration including Oracle RAC expertise.

• Designed cloud solutions on GCP and AWS for multiple enterprise client engagements;
• Designed Kubernetes architectures to support scalable and reliable application deployment;
• Designed Terraform architectures to provision and manage infrastructure across GCP and AWS;
• Designed configuration management architectures for enterprise applications using Ansible;
• Administered Oracle databases, ensuring performance, availability, and reliability;
• Designed and maintained Oracle RAC environments for high availability and scalability.