Sr. Mgr, Cognitive AI Engineering · Ex-AWS AI/ML Solutions Architect

I started in professional baseball - drafted by the Houston Astros out of high school. That discipline - preparation, pattern recognition, performance under pressure - carried into everything that followed.

After baseball I moved into cybersecurity and engineering. Identity and access management (IAM) on the SailPoint team at Centene. Led cyber investigations at Citibank - threat intelligence, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and fraud investigations. Ran cyberfusion programs at Booz Allen Hamilton for clients including Yahoo, DHS, and Toyota.

That path led to cloud, data, and AI/ML architecture. As an AI/ML Solutions Architect Specialist at AWS I worked across Generative AI, AI search, and analytics - batch and streaming data with Apache Spark, Amazon EMR, Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. I was a subject matter expert (SME) for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Splunk, and deployed models with Amazon SageMaker, Hugging Face, and Amazon Bedrock - from traditional ML to large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented architectures.

Today I build autonomous, agentic AI for threat detection, OSINT, and cyber threat intelligence. Search-first analytics on Amazon OpenSearch with neural, semantic, and hybrid search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). AI-assisted SOC modernization, detection engineering, and Splunk to OpenSearch migrations.

If that maps to what you are building, see what I build.