In 4th grade a teacher sat me down in front of an Apple II. Ever since, I have spent a majority of my waking hours thinking about and obsessing on them. I accepted long ago, that it must be my calling. I minted my skills. abilities, and wisdom scaling and architecting at places, such as, AltaVista, Experian, and MySpace. At MySpace, I architected, built, and scaled the #1 site in the world to over 7.2M concurrent users. In 2005, they hired me as their 13th developer. Over the next four years, I built and managed a 240-person organization. In 2008, I became Executive Vice President of Engineering. In 2010, after leaving MySpace, I pursued and received funding for my 1st startup. Entrepreneurship reminded me to always stay hands on. Stay a great coder. Know the latest DevOps concepts. Use the latest DevOps tools. I have spent the last two years working at DataPipe. I helped to build and manage a new 35-person 100% remote team. Our goal was to build a self-healing microservices-based cloud platform. We coded most of it in Go, NodeJS and Python. Clients could run it on AWS or Google Cloud. We used some Docker but ALL k8s. RESTful was Kong. AAA was Auth0. Logging was ELK. GitLab for CI/CD/CD. Drone for IaC. I ran a 7-person team. For day-to-day, my tools were Trello for Kanban. Slack and a Slack bot for Virtual Daily Stand-ups and general communication. Zoom was go to for Video Conferencing. GitLab powered pull requests, reviews, and source code management.
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