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Agentic & Applied AI
Designing orchestrator agents and tool‑using AI systems — reasoning, retrieval‑augmented knowledge, and secure action‑taking woven into real workflows.
Senior Detection & Automation Engineer · Microsoft
I turn manual security operations into autonomous, AI‑driven systems — eleven years building the automation platforms, detections, and agentic AI that let global security teams operate at scale.
01 — About
I'm a senior engineer at Microsoft who has spent over a decade turning high‑volume, manual security work into scalable, self‑running systems. I've grown from a front‑line security responder into the automation architect behind a global cloud fraud‑and‑abuse operation — designing the platforms, detections, and AI systems a modern security team depends on.
Today my focus is agentic AI: building orchestrated, tool‑using AI systems that reason over problems and carry out entire operational workflows end to end. It's the convergence of everything I love — detection engineering, large‑scale automation, and applied AI — on a secure, production‑grade foundation.
Colleagues describe me as a force multiplier: I care as much about raising the engineering bar of the people around me as I do about shipping. The best systems make the humans around them more capable, not less — and that's the standard I build to.
02 — Expertise
Designing orchestrator agents and tool‑using AI systems — reasoning, retrieval‑augmented knowledge, and secure action‑taking woven into real workflows.
Architecting automation platforms that replace repetitive analyst work with reliable, self‑running systems — freeing experts to focus on what matters.
Authoring and tuning high‑fidelity detections that surface real threats and cut noise — the signal quality a security operation is built on.
Modernizing legacy systems into scalable, reusable platforms with the guardrails, standards, and patterns teams build on for years.
Zero‑trust auth, identity, and least‑privilege built in from the start — because automation that acts on production must be trustworthy first.
Mentoring engineers through real production challenges, driving clarity in ambiguity, and aligning teams across organizational boundaries.
03 — Signature Work
A high‑level look at the platforms and initiatives I've led — the details stay internal, but the shape of the work speaks for itself.
A security‑first platform that lets an operations team hand investigation and remediation work to orchestrated AI agents. An intelligent orchestrator reasons over requests and calls specialized tools — querying telemetry, taking secure actions, and searching institutional knowledge — all behind a zero‑trust access layer and a clean, role‑aware web experience. It represents the convergence of my automation and AI work into a single autonomous system.
Led the modernization of a large body of security‑automation workflows onto a scalable next‑generation platform — retiring legacy dependencies and establishing the reusable patterns, guardrails, and engineering standards the team builds on today. The result: faster, safer, more consistent automation across the organization.
Designed and refined detections across a major cloud platform — engineering signals for precision and dramatically reducing noise so responders spend their time on real threats. Quiet, high‑leverage work that quietly makes an entire operation sharper.
Built the templates and standardized building blocks that turned automation from a weeks‑long custom effort into a repeatable, days‑long process — multiplying what a small team could deliver and setting a durable foundation for everything that followed.
Years driving security & automation at Microsoft
Systems that run entire workflows end to end
How peers and leaders describe my impact
The thesis
Every system I build exists to do one thing: pull clear, actionable signal out of overwhelming noise — then act on it, autonomously.
04 — Journey
Began as a vendor supporting cloud security operations — front‑line response, triage, and the first automations that hinted at a bigger calling.
Joined Microsoft full‑time and scaled a growing security operation through automation and detection enrichment — building the reusable frameworks that multiplied the team's output.
Promoted to Senior. Became the automation architect for a global cloud fraud‑and‑abuse operation — modernizing platforms, setting standards, and now leading the move into agentic AI.
05 — Voices
"A true force multiplier — he doesn't just solve problems; he enables others to solve them at the same level."
"Your technical expertise in automation and troubleshooting is unparalleled. You are a master of your craft."
"You operate at a system level, connecting constraints across teams and engineering realities. A trusted senior partner."
"A remarkable ability to break down complex engineering challenges into clear, actionable paths forward."
"Your leadership is exceptional — composed, thoughtful, and precise, even in high‑pressure situations."
"You are a fearless advocate for your whole team — and you give credit where it's due just as fiercely."