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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Using AI responsibly to lesson the burden on TTRPG Game Masters

"Hands on keyboard" consulting, technical course development, and instruction for DevOps and Cloud Native technologies.Focuses:* Google Cloud Platform* Kubernetes & Docker - Cluster design and installation - Container Storage Interface driver development - Writing Kubernetes extensions such as Custom Resource Definitions and Operators - "Containerization" and "Kubernetification" of applications and workloads* DevOps - Mentoring for organizations and teams adopting devops principles, best practices and tools* Solopreneur style app devIf you are interested an any services listed above or services I may be able to provide based on my skills, please message me!

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

A sweet sabbatical code retreat (https://www.recurse.com/) where I mostly delved into ML and AI from soup to nuts.

San Jose, California, Us

Focused on development of Astra Trident, NetApp's CSI Storage plugin for Kubernetes

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Long time stacker responsible for reviewing code submissions and implementing major features. Contribute to other OpenStack projects as necessary.www.OpenStack.orgCore contributor on Glance (Image service).2013 -2015API Working Group Liaison for the Cinder and Manila projects (Liberty Cycle)OpenStack Spotlight: https://www.openstack.org/blog/?p=5219A Top 20 OpenStack contributor for at least two release cycles (6 months each). https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg09650.html (Essex Release)https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17006.html (Folsom Release)

San Jose, California, Us

* Co-lead the design, roll-out, and maintenance of a large CI system used for testing NetApp drivers for both in-house development and development by the OpenStack community* Construct detailed design documents for numerous NetApp driver features by working with their related product teams to ensure thought out, scalable architecture and implementation* Implement, test, and document code changes for major features and bugs* Push to build teamwork and expertise on the team by presenting tech talks and internal code retreats (coderetreat.org) as well as spreading knowledge through pair-programming

San Antonio, Texas, Us

* Assist in the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the Rackspace OpenStack Cloud* Top contributor to the Qonos project for supporting the Scheduled Images feature set * Ensure features related to images, such as VM snapshots, booting VMs, and scheduled server backups are functional and reliable* Graduated from the Rackspace Emerging Leaders ProgramLinks:Qonos - https://github.com/rackspace-titan/qonosScheduled Images - http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/scheduled-images-faq

Our primary goal is to support our commitment to Radford University students by creating professional networking opportunities, developing skills necessary to be a top notch employee through hands on workshops and expert lectures, developing job search skills, and preparation for graduate school. Another goal is to provide social events, like video game socials, to allow networking of club members and a chance to relax.Highlights:* Member count nearly doubled each and every semester* Honored with the Outstanding Student Organization Award in May 2012* Tripled the budget by increasing membership dues, selling T-shirts, and finding sponsorships for events and supplies* Hosted numerous guest lectures, workshops, game jams, and programming competitions* Most importantly, assisted many students in becoming skilled software engineers, getting jobs, and having a shitload of fun.

Radford, Va, Us

Configure, test, and maintain systems for contests such as the ACM ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regionals as well as the Radford High School programming contest.

Work remotely approximately 2-5 hours per week on a scheduled or as-needed basis on a variety of marketing and research/development tasks.

Assisted in the design and development of a major network monitoring system. I also designed and developed tools to be utilized by fellow employees.