Work with me
I'm a scholar-practitioner who bridges doctoral research with real platform work — and then teaches both. Whether you need a keynote that opens minds, a strategic advisor who has shipped production systems, or a curriculum designer who has stood in front of a classroom, you're in the right place. The three engagements below cover the most common ways people hire me.
Speaking & Workshops
Ideas that move rooms — and hands-on work that sticks
Who it's for: conference organizers, DevRel teams, and internal engineering organizations looking to level up around emerging platform patterns and DevSecOps.
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Keynotes and conference talks on the Model Context Protocol, platform engineering, and DevSecOps — grounding the hype in research-backed practice and concrete implementation patterns.
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Hands-on MCP workshops where attendees leave with real MCP servers they built themselves, running against multiple AI providers — not just slides, but working tooling.
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Tailored internal sessions that align security, reliability, and delivery speed for your specific engineering culture — framed around your stack, not a generic curriculum.
Delivered the MCP workshop at DevOpsDays Austin 2026.
Advisory & Consulting
Strategic clarity for teams building platforms that matter
Who it's for: platform teams, engineering leaders, and public-sector programs navigating complex socio-technical change — especially where compliance, security, and delivery speed must coexist.
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Platform strategy and developer-experience roadmaps that translate organizational goals into concrete platform capabilities — built around how your engineers actually work, not how a framework says they should.
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DevSecOps adoption that integrates security and reliability into delivery pipelines without adding friction — so teams go faster because security is built in, not bolted on.
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Data platform architecture designed for decision-ready analytics — with governance and stewardship practices that scale without becoming bureaucracy.
Grounded in doctoral research on Agile DevSecOps adoption in DoD software programs.
Teaching & Curriculum
Curriculum built from practice — and designed to transfer
Who it's for: universities, bootcamps, and workforce programs that need computing education grounded in industry reality — not textbook examples disconnected from how systems actually work.
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Applied, certification-aligned computing curriculum that prepares learners for CompTIA, cloud, and security credentials while actually building understanding — not just test-taking tactics.
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Adult and experiential learning design that respects professional context — structured around real socio-technical constraints so learners see themselves in the material.
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Python and computer-systems instruction grounded in practice — designed for learners who need to do real work with these tools, not just pass an exam.
Undergraduate instructor; 8 industry certifications (CompTIA Security+, CySA+, PenTest+, and more).
Not sure which fits? Let's talk first.
A 30-minute call is usually enough to figure out what kind of engagement makes sense — and whether we're a good match.