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Specialist Platform Engineer

WEX Inc
Maine, USA
Jan 2025 - Present

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and deploy globally distributed Active-Active API Gateway solutions using Google Cloud Apigee X and Global Load Balancers, ensuring 99.999% availability for mission-critical payment systems
  • Engineer custom Terraform Providers from scratch using Go (Golang) to automate secure resource provisioning, abstracting complex API interactions into declarative infrastructure as code
  • Design and deploy AI Gateway infrastructure with rate limiting, audit logging, and access control for LLM integrations in enterprise environments
  • Build MCP (Model Context Protocol) Registry and API integrations for orchestrating AI agents with enterprise governance and standardized protocols
  • Implement infrastructure modernization for PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance, designing Blue/Green deployment strategies for zero-downtime upgrades in regulated cloud environments
  • Orchestrate observability migration from proprietary tools to open-standard stack using Grafana and Prometheus, implementing Dashboards as Code across hybrid-cloud systems
  • Design advanced traffic management for Amazon EKS clusters using Istio Ingress Gateways and Active-Active DNS routing for seamless failover and canary deployments

Key Achievements

  • Architected globally distributed API Gateway with 99.999% availability for mission-critical payment systems
  • Built custom Terraform Provider in Go, significantly reducing developer onboarding time through declarative IaC
  • Achieved PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance with zero-downtime Blue/Green deployment strategies
  • Unified observability across hybrid-cloud with Dashboards as Code, optimizing operational costs
  • Enabled seamless failover and canary deployments across distributed availability zones with Istio and EKS
  • Decreased production incidents by 65% through improved architecture standards
  • Reduced development costs by 40% through reusable components and patterns
  • Designed AI Gateway and MCP Registry for enterprise-grade LLM orchestration with governance and audit controls

Technical Skills

Enterprise ArchitectureAPI Gateway (Apigee X)Google Cloud PlatformKubernetes (EKS)Istio Service MeshTerraform & Custom ProvidersGo (Golang)DevSecOpsIAM (Okta, Auth0)AI Gateway & MCP ProtocolPCI-DSS 4.0Grafana & PrometheusCI/CD PipelinesPlatform Engineering

Soft Skills

Strategic PlanningTechnical LeadershipStakeholder ManagementTeam MentorshipChange ManagementCross-team Collaboration