Consultant – Devops, Cloud, Security

Slalom Consulting January 2020 – Present

• Worked in a consultative role on multiple projects as a Cloud Architect
• Helped customers understand and use best practices for migrating workloads to AWS
• Designed and created a fully automated deployment of a data analysis product using Terraform
• Worked to ensure infrastructure could be easily be created or destroyed for cost savings without losing data
• Worked with Data Scientists to migrate workflows from a shared AWS account to a multi-account model
• Deployed Data Science workflows as containers in AWS ECS and Fargate

Founder

KubeCommit LLC March 2019 – Present

• Built Managed Platform for ease of Deployment into Kubernetes
• Worked with startup founders to shape the product to their needs
• Using GCP tools including GKE and Cloud SQL
• Worked with customers to understand how they use containers in their modern workflow

DevOps Engineer

Atlas Money May 2017 – March 2019

• Architect and Manage AWS environment to maximize resiliency and minimize cost
• Use AWS products such as EC2, ELB, EBS, VPC, RDS, Redshift, S3, and Route53
• Manage Kubernetes as a platform for deploying development and production applications
• Create Jenkins jobs to automate deployment of microservices and other CI/CD processes
• Work with customers, project managers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs for a product and then work with developers to outline best way to meet those needs
• Work directly with company founders to make strategic infrastructure design decisions
• Automate systems administration tasks using Python
• Work across stacks of various tools, platforms, and microservices to trace problems to their root and resolve them
• Debug problems with Node.js applications
• Manage company DNS and Load Balancing in AWS using Route53 and ELB

Linux Administration

• DevOps Engineer
• CenturyLink April 2016 – May 2017
• Server Administration using Ansible
• Deploying releases via Jenkins
• Work directly with Development and Operations to ensure both teams are working together effectively
• Convert and deploy applications as docker containers
• Write bug fixes and features in accordance with user stories
• Engage in code reviews, story pointing, retrospectives, and other Agile processes

Senior Linux Engineer

CenturyLink September 2015 - April 2016

• Escalation point for associate engineers
• Manage DNS for multiple customers
• Perform and schedule planned changes and patching to all hosted Linux/UNIX systems.

Linux Engineer

CenturyLink September 2014 - September 2015

Coordinate hardware upgrades and replacements with vendors

• RSA and internal user management
• Server level network and routing changes
• Adding storage to existing servers from 3par and NAS devices.
• Troubleshoot and maintain all VMware Linux servers and ESX 4.1 and 5 hosts
• Create, update, and maintain technical documentation for troubleshooting for both our team and other teams.
• Provide detailed root cause analysis for any unexpected outages
• Perform customer requested audits in a timely fashion.
• Mentor and provide training materials for Tier 2 Server support team

Global Operations Systems Administrator

CenturyLink December 2012-September 2014

• Administration, configuration, and troubleshooting of a diverse operation system environment including Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux
• Scripting and automation of tasks
• Monitoring and troubleshooting over 30,000 servers across over 40 Data Centers
• Extensive monitoring via SNMP
• User account Administration including Password Resets, Account Creation, Account Removal, Privilege changes.
• Monitoring and Administration of Veritas Netback-up
• Managing and troubleshooting VMWARE ESXi and vCenter server.
• Troubleshooting and administration of server applications including IIS, Apache, JBOSS, and Tomcat
• Troubleshooting Load Balancers
• MSSQL server Administration and Clustering
• Troubleshooting and Resolution of problems with CPU usage, memory usage, and disk space

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