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Irvine, Ca, Us

* Design and implement multi-cluster Kubernetes for build and release infrastructure supporting over 600 cloud and embedded developers, 500 nodes, over 100k daily GitLab CI jobs, and over 45 runners* Drive PoC to migration of firmware monorepo to Bazel, including remote execution and caching with Buildbarn, auto-generated BUILD files, and byte-for-byte parity with existing build system* Design and implement sustainable SLAs and SLOs for CI team using weekly SRE Production Meetings to communicate to stakeholders and investigate improvements for quality of service* Lead migration of firmware monorepo from Bitbucket to GitLab self-managed, including CI pipeline with over 30 ECUs and hundreds of hardware variants* Implement Crossplane compositions and Helm charts to integrate our apps with AWS infrastructure for platform-wide deployment including automated unit and integration tests using Chainsaw* Implement company-wide infrastructure templates and standards including publishing, doc generation, linting, unit, and integration tests for Python, Kubernetes, Helm, and Crossplane projects

Washington, D.C., Us

* Led three teams, totaling 12 people across 5 time zones in US and Europe to migrate 6 Data.gov open source applications from datacenter-style infrastructure to Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service* Leveraged cloud services to eliminate infrastructure, OS, and application framework layers and reduce team workload by 50%* Architect and implement CI/CD for 6 applications of data.gov system across 3 environments using Jenkins and CircleCI, automating a manual 2-hour monolithic deploy process to 10 minutes per app* Reviewed architecture proposal for new ETL harvest system and offer recommendations to better meet compliance and performance constraints* Establish coding standards and definition of done, including best practices for design, implementation, and testing and implementing automated checks when possible using linting and code coverage* Reviewed design for single-tenant Kubernetes for Apache Solr-as-a-service deployment implementing the Open Service Broker API* Introduced Test-Driven Development and implemented unit, integration, and smoke test suites for applications, libraries, and Ansible roles, leveraging pytest, mock, Jest, Cypress, Molecule, and Docker* Prototyped logging, monitoring, and alerting ELK service using Open Distro for Elasticsearch

Washington, D.C., Us

* Implemented immutable deployment of AWS applications using Packer, Ansible, and Terraform for zero-downtime blue-green deployment* Negotiated complex security requirements with Intelligence Community agencies to draft a FOIA API spec that meets federal statutes without requiring significant build effort from implementers* Standardized development environment and CI/CD for several Cloud Foundry web applications with Docker Compose* Led technical strategy for several discovery projects including design, prototyping, implementation, and hand-off of MVP web applications in Node.js and Python

San Francisco, California, Us

* Led design and implementation for internationalization and localization of OpenTable’s search platform to serve eight countries and nine languages* Introduced best practices and industry standard open source software libraries for localization in order to reduce development effort and increase automated test coverage to over 95%

Oakland, California, Us

* Designed and implemented Node.js inter-application message queue using AMQP based RabbitMQ to keep inventory up-to-date with customer orders, reducing printing and data-entry costs* Championed for information/operational security for the entire company by rolling out a security policy and training developers and non-technical employees on security best practices

Redmond, Washington, Us