AI Platforms, Cloud Infrastructure & Security Governance at Enterprise Scale
Engineering executive with 25+ years building and leading cloud, platform, SRE, and security organizations for Fortune 500 environments. Led a global organization of up to 50 engineers through 5 engineering managers across NA, EMEA, and APAC, directing a $40M+ budget and supporting enterprise voice and speech-AI services running ~1B monthly sessions at 99.9%+ availability.
Areas of Executive Practice
Combining global organizational leadership, P&L governance, and hands-on architectural command across cloud, SRE, and enterprise AI control planes.
01. Organizational Scale & Retention
Built and led a multi-function organization spanning cloud engineering, application delivery, SRE, data engineering, QA, solution architecture, and DevOps.
- Up to 50 engineers led through 5 engineering managers across NA, EMEA, and APAC
- 40% of team promoted over tenure; 5 ICs developed into engineering managers
- Voluntary attrition held under 5% at Nuance
- 90% of senior staff retained through the first 3 years of Microsoft M&A integration
02. AI Platform Governance & Economics
Partnered with Product leadership on the AI modernization roadmap, establishing runtime guardrails, dynamic inference routing, and compliance boundaries.
- Co-led platform modernization supporting enterprise voice and AI workloads (~1B monthly sessions)
- Creator of the Autonomy Boundary Framework (ABF) for auditable agent autonomy
- Creator of DISPATCH for multi-tier LLM inference routing and FinOps control
- Mitigated data exposure, code leakage, and compliance risks across regulated environments
03. Cloud Modernization & FinOps
Enterprise-wide transformation of monolithic and VMware-based systems into cloud-native microservices across Azure and AWS.
- 10,000+ compute nodes migrated across global Azure regions in 9 months
- Co-delivered company-wide cloud program reducing infrastructure costs ~40% (~$96M+) across 40+ consolidated data centers
- 90% CI/CD and GitOps deployment automation with integrated security gates
04. Security & Regulated Compliance
Chaired the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and embedded security as an engineering discipline across Fortune 500 deployments.
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, SOX, and NIST 800-53 sustained at platform scope
- FedRAMP compliance maintained across production cloud-AI services at Microsoft
- Incident resolution time (MTTR) cut ~40% and reliability improved 25% at 99.9%+ availability
Open-Source Enterprise AI Control Planes
Runnable reference architectures addressing the two primary barriers to production enterprise AI: bounded execution safety and predictable unit economics.
Autonomy Boundary Framework (ABF)
Deterministic runtime controls for auditable AI agent autonomy built on the principle that approved must equal authorized. Separates probabilistic LLM planning from deterministic policy enforcement with a hash-chained tamper-evident ledger.
- Risk-tiered tool autonomy (paved-road read execution vs. hash-bound change approvals)
- Hardened in public with security practitioners across banking and AI infrastructure
DISPATCH — Multi-Tier Inference Router
Enterprise LLM inference control plane balancing reasoning depth, latency SLAs, and unit economics across foundation models through dynamic capability routing and prefix-cache preservation.
- Dynamic routing between compact fast-path models and frontier reasoning tiers
- Prefix canonicalization, per-tenant quota isolation, and automated provider failover
Career Experience
25+ years across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, and security governance in regulated environments.
- Advise CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and platform leaders in regulated industries on multi-cloud modernization, AI platform economics, and production governance.
- Creator and maintainer of the Autonomy Boundary Framework (ABF) and DISPATCH multi-tier LLM inference router.
- Retained at Senior Director scope through Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance to lead platform engineering, cloud reliability, and security posture for enterprise voice and speech-AI services (~1B monthly sessions) across NA, EMEA, and APAC for Fortune 500 customers.
- Led a ~50-engineer global organization through 5 engineering managers across Platform, SRE, Architecture, Data, and Security; directed a $40M+ budget and retained 90% of senior staff through 3 years of post-merger integration.
- Partnered with Product leadership on the AI modernization roadmap, establishing AI governance, runtime guardrails, and secure engineering practices to mitigate data exposure and compliance risk.
- Chaired the Architecture Review Board and set the technical bar for cloud and AI security; maintained continuous compliance across PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, SOX, FedRAMP, and NIST 800-53.
- Championed SRE automation, shift-left DevSecOps, and incident-response readiness, cutting incident resolution time ~40% and improving reliability 25% on 99.9%+ availability services.
- Built and led a multi-disciplinary organization of up to 50 engineers through 5 engineering managers across Cloud Engineering, Application Delivery, SRE, Data Engineering/Analytics, QA, Solution Architecture, and DevOps; promoted 40% of staff, grew 5 ICs into managers, and held attrition under 5%.
- Partnered with the VP of Engineering on platform strategy that enabled platform revenue growth from $15M to $250M+.
- Led modernization of monolithic and VMware systems into cloud-native microservices, migrating 10,000+ nodes across global Azure regions in 9 months with 90% CI/CD deployment automation.
- Directed a $40M+ infrastructure and vendor budget; teams co-delivered a company-wide cloud transformation that cut infrastructure costs ~40% (~$96M+) and consolidated 40+ data centers.
- Architected modernized enterprise data pipelines (Databricks, Tableau/BI) and chaired the Architecture Review Board, delivering compliant SaaS (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, SOX, NIST) on Azure and AWS.
- Architected high-availability distributed systems for global voice and data platforms (CCaaS/UCaaS) for Fortune 500 clients including Home Depot, American Red Cross, Aon, and McKesson.
- Led engineering, operations, and PCI-DSS security for 10,000+ seat global contact-center platforms across the US, Latin America, and APAC; improved operational efficiency 30%.
Education & Credentials
Education
- Master of Science in Engineering (Data Engineering & AI/ML Systems) — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (In Progress, Expected Winter 2027)
- M.S. & B.S. in Engineering — Amirkabir University of Technology
Certifications & Clearances
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) · ITIL Foundation
- Cornell Executive Leadership Certificate
- U.S. Public Trust Clearance