
Engineering leader · Builder · Mentor
I build great engineering teams and help them deliver.
I run platform, infrastructure, SRE, and developer experience teams. I set clear goals, trust people to own their work, and stay technical enough to dig into a design review or an incident alongside them.
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- Marietta, GA
Proof points
- $1MAnnual cloud savings at FloQast
- 99.99%Platform uptime at Piksel
- 16People in the platform org built at CallRail
- SOC 2Type II certification led at CallRail
Recommendations
What colleagues say about working with me
“We trusted him, followed his lead, and did our best work because of it.”
Daniel SteadmanDirect report · FloQast “I was given the opportunity to grow and create my own style as to how I would manage my teams while under his leadership”
Crystal ThorntonDirect report · CallRail “Tony works tirelessly to improve processes and he gets results. He creates organization where needed and eliminates roadblocks.”
Katie SalleyPeer · CallRail “He is good at making the complicated simpler to understand, and carries a long-term view of the emergence and role of technology in business and entertainment.”
Scott ElliottPeer · TCGplayer
Experience
Where I’ve led teams
Engineering Manager, DevOps07/2023 – 02/2026Built and scaled an 11-person DevOps organization, cut annual cloud spend by $1M through FinOps, and launched the Backstage internal developer platform.Read more
Director of Engineering, Platform & Infrastructure02/2019 – 10/2022Built and scaled a 16-person DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering organization, led the move to AWS managed services, and directed SOC 2 Type II certification.Read more
Vice President, Technology12/2015 – 08/2018Led Engineering, QA, DevOps, Operations, and Data Engineering, moved from Rackspace to AWS, and presented the technology strategy in a $10M growth equity process.Read more
Vice President, Engineering (Online Video Platform)05/2013 – 05/2015Led engineering and QA for a global online video platform, modernized the platform, and improved reliability to 99.99% uptime.Read more
Projects
Independent products
I founded PackFresh and build all of these products myself.
- OrganizedPlayRun tournament night without a laptop full of spreadsheets.Live
- NetDeckBuild a deck in any game, then go find the cards it needs.Live
- PackFresh ScoutTell it what you are hunting and let it watch every shop for you.Beta
- PackFreshCollect, play, buy and sell, without keeping a second copy of what you own.In development
What’s next
Open to engineering leadership opportunities
I’m looking for my next engineering leadership role, where I can build a team and help it deliver. I also take on a small amount of consulting work.