Caesars Digital

• Built and operated cloud infrastructure for online gaming in a highly regulated, rapidly expanding multi-state environment — each new jurisdiction bringing its own regulatory and compliance requirements, including state gaming licensure.
• Worked hands-on within a large multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet — central clusters plus per-state colocated datacenters mandated by gaming regulations, thousands of nodes in aggregate, each state’s footprint sized roughly to its population.
• Primary technical point of contact for a joint initiative with AWS to automate account management across the organization: an account-provisioning and SSO-mapping stack built on the newly released AWS Control Tower Account Factory, combining Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework components to enable rapid creation of new AWS accounts with fully automated access control.
• Resolved acute pod-IP exhaustion — a pressing constraint given the size of the clusters — by migrating from CNI-Genie + Calico to the AWS VPC CNI, enabling IP prefixing (prefix delegation) alongside custom-networking mode with CGNAT ranges as secondary VPC CIDRs. This greatly expanded available pod IP space and improved resiliency without reprovisioning the underlying EKS clusters or disrupting workloads, and was made more challenging by the environment’s use of multiple CNIs.
• Architected and drove the adoption of ArgoCD, vastly simplifying and accelerating Caesars’ Kubernetes delivery processes.
• Led an engagement with Rackspace to shift-left the vendoring of numerous cloud services.
• Wrote and deployed Terraform (Terragrunt) modules enabling downstream development teams to consume ECR self-service.