Software/Platform Engineer | Azure Local Stack

Experienced software engineer with over seven years of development expertise on the C#/.NET platform, spanning both application and infrastructure/platform-level development. Played a key role in shaping R. W. Baird’s Azure cloud strategies (PaaS/IaaS/CaC). Brings a unique blend of application development and DevOps experience, combined with a product-focused mindset and strong communication skills to drive platform development and cross-team collaboration.

TECHNOLOGIES

.NET Development, C#, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, GCP Functions, Github Actions, Terraform, Bicep/ARM, YAML, Microsoft Entra AD Auth Patterns, Azure Keyvault, Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Virtual Networking, Azure Policy, Azure Application Insights, Azure Service Bus, Azure CLI, KQL, SQL, Azure Express Routes, Azure Devops CI/CD Pipelines, Entity Framework, Microsoft Powershell, SSIS, Angular/Typescript, CSS/HTML, RPG, Github

Experiences

.NET Software Engineer II, CereCore, September 2025 - Present

• Extended and helped create various .NET and GCP function applications related to health care facility management
• Built various RESTful API endpoints
• Used codefirst migrations to establish or update SQL database schemas
• Worked with DevOps team to rotate existing API secret values
• Curated local secret sharing solution for team to increase security posture and avoid storing secure values in source control. Wrote custom powershell script to read the secret values from an encrypted database and replace placeholders with secrets in local appsettings configuration files
• Onboarded 2 new remote team members within 4 months of joining team
• Extensively documented app architecture and developer onboarding process

Cloud Engineer II, Robert W. Baird (Baird), July 2023 - September 2024

Promoted across departments from App Development to IT Operations (Ops) to help pilot the adoption and implementation of an Azure cloud migration strategy, becoming instrumental in driving the organization’s transition to cloud-based solutions. Acted as liaison between development teams and the IT Operations group, collaborating with key stakeholders to understand business needs and technical requirements, ensuring a seamless integration of Azure services. Provided strategic guidance and hands-on support in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure, enabling scalable, secure, and efficient solutions across the organization.

Developed a strategy for staging core resources in a new Azure region, contributing to greenfield platform development and configuration

• Worked closely with IT Ops tech leads (i.e. network, application administration, security & server teams) to spearhead the expansion of several new Azure regions to establish geographical redundancy in a privatized virtual network (privatization using ExpressRoute connectivity)
• Personally automated the staging of core non-network specific resources including App Service Plans, Azure Service Bus, & Azure API Management using Terraform/YAML (Configuration as Code)
• Helped server & network team engineers to automate deployment of virtual network spokes using Bicep files and YAML pipelines
• Applied networking expertise to assess and allocate necessary resources per virtual network spoke

Developed and implemented storage account security strategy for storage accounts hosted on a private Azure network

• Developed and implemented a privatized storage account security strategy to enhance data protection. Attempted to eliminate SAS key authentication on internal applications
• Applied thorough understanding of Microsoft Entra ID authentication principles including configuring secret credential management in Azure keyvault, security groups for application users with RBAC and MFA, app registrations, managed identities, and service principles to access storage accounts securely
• Led reconnaissance efforts to identify and remediate high-risk configurations, ensuring compliance with an improved security pattern
• Provided tailored guidance to developers on implementation strategies based on their preferred level of abstraction. Offered insights into on-premises to Azure connections for those interested in understanding the underlying architecture while enabling automation and abstraction for others

Led the development and implementation of an application criticality tagging and tiering process for all cloud hosted resources and applications, ensuring alignment with existing outage response strategies

• Modified existing cloud-hosted application resources to conform to the newly established tiering system
• Designed a standardized protocol for identifying and capturing the criticality of cloud resources and solutions, ensuring compatibility with Baird’s existing disaster recovery principles and nomenclature
• Conducted a proof of concept (POC) for an Azure dashboard utilizing KQL queries to monitor, identify, and list critical resources affected during outages
• Implemented and enforced a new tagging and tag-inheritance process for downstream resources using Azure Policy

Software Developer II, Baird - Compliance IT aligned, September 2021 - July 2023

• Assisted lead architect in designing and adopting a strategy for the first entirely cloud hosted solution with on premise data connectivity in IT (Cloud hosted solution involved a range of Azure PaaS components including App Services, Functions, Background Workers, SQL database tables & blob storage accounts)
• Recognized as the go-to team resource for Azure troubleshooting due to knowledge of on premise/cloud infrastructure landscape as well as Bicep/ARM templating skills for deployment configuration (CI/CD pipelines using devops)
• Automated pipelines (YAML/Bicep) for Azure infrastructure components and cloud-hosted .NET services such as Azure storage accounts, Azure SQL databases/retention policies, and Azure background workers
• Maintained and enhanced a range of .NET applications supporting compliance and building facilities teams
• Automated Alteryx workflows designed by compliance analysts by integrating them with IT’s job scheduling software (CA Autosys)
• Leveraged strong communication and relationship-building skills to collaborate across IT teams and bridge gaps between business units, identifying critical data needs for various software feature requirements

Software Developer II, Baird - Operations IT aligned, July 2020 - September 2021

• Created and extended many financial mailing related internal .NET apps requiring integration with internal printing processes/BETA (Thomson Reuters) brokerage transaction data
• Rewrote a rep code updater process to automatically refresh Financial Representative groups in Active Directory (converted a legacy powershell script to a testable .NET solution)
• Cross team analysis and synthesis skills led to flexibility traversing between an engineer and business analyst role as needed by the team
• Modified and created many RESTful API’s

Software Developer I, Baird - Operations IT Aligned, June 2018 - July 2020

• Built ETL processes for overnight file loads, both SSIS and C# code based batch processing
• Assisted in rewriting legacy RPG programs in C# to deprecate AS400 databases
• Pioneered conversion of TFS repositories to git based source control and taught git workflow to team
• Built many features in .NET framework, .NET core, with a SQL database

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate | July 2025

Education

devCodeCamp, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | Completed Software Development Bootcamp | April 2018
Asbury University | Wilmore, KY | Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy | 2017