About Me

The Overture: A Foundation in Systems and Discipline

For over 30 years, music was my life. This career, which took me from the Jerusalem Academy of Music to the jazz clubs of New York City, was about more than performance. I specialized in building systems from the ground up. I designed and implemented music education networks for entire municipalities, founded and conducted a 20-piece Big Band, and learned to manage the complex logistics of teams, projects, and performances. This experience taught me discipline, leadership, and how to orchestrate many moving parts to achieve a single goal. My philosophy, captured in the title of an album I recorded in NYC, has always been: “Your Comfort Zone Will Kill You.” It was this mindset that led me to my next great challenge: technology.

The Transition: Composing a Career in Tech

Recognizing the need for a career change to support my family, I dove headfirst into the world of DevOps. I approached this transition with the same intensity I once applied to music theory, systematically building my knowledge stack from the ground up.

• Self-Study: I began with foundational bootcamps in Python and DevOps, learning core concepts of CI/CD, configuration management (Ansible), and cloud computing (AWS).
• Intensive Training: I was accepted into Develeap’s rigorous 16-week, hands-on DevOps bootcamp. There, I gained deep, practical experience in enterprise-level tooling through large-scale projects.
• Core Competencies: My learning focused on the complete DevOps lifecycle, including Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK).
• Certifications: To validate my skills, I earned the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, and the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certifications.

First Movement: My Journey at JFrog

My entry into the tech world was as a DevOps Support Engineer for Infrastructure at JFrog. This role was an intense, real-world crucible where I honed my troubleshooting skills. I supported enterprise customers with their complex DevOps pipelines, diving deep into logs, Java code, and infrastructure issues related to networking, performance, and storage.

While I mastered the art of diagnosing problems, I found myself drawn to building the solutions. A project involving FinOps — using Terraform and Lambda to automate cost-saving measures across AWS Organizations — eliminated 80% of cloud waste and cut monthly spend by 30%. After over a year at JFrog, I realized my true calling was not to support the pipeline, but to own it. That clarity led me to pursue dedicated Platform Engineering roles, building and automating cloud infrastructure end-to-end.

Second Movement: Platform & AI Engineering

Today I operate as a Platform Engineer and AI Systems Architect across two active engagements. At Polus Tech, I own the full migration of an edge intelligence platform to a 13-microservice K3s cluster, architect AI-Ops ingestion pipelines with RAG and AWS Bedrock, and engineer per-unit provisioning automation with Ansible. In a parallel role, I am building a full-stack web platform from scratch — owning frontend, backend, Kubernetes infrastructure, and authentication end-to-end.

I am actively open to roles where I can apply this depth across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and AI-driven systems — ideally within a team that values technical ownership and building things that matter.