Aidan M. Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Draper, Ut, Us

As a Principal Data Operations Engineer at Pluralsight, I successfully led a zero downtime migration of the enterprise streaming data platform, collaborating with global development teams and implementing meticulous technical planning to ensure uninterrupted access to critical real-time data and services. By leveraging advanced techniques and industry best practices, I minimized risks and achieved a seamless transition, setting a benchmark for excellence. Additionally, I played a key role in implementing data security measures and access controls to ensure data privacy, confidentiality, and compliance with industry standards for the enterprise data streaming platform. Furthermore, I designed and implemented a robust Kafka disaster recovery solution, utilizing cross-region VPC peering and MirrorMaker2 for seamless data replication and redundancy.

Draper, Ut, Us

As a Data Operations Engineer, I architected and implemented a high-throughput data streaming platform using Kafka, enabling real-time data processing and analysis for critical business applications. I also developed Python automation for Kafka Connect connectors, allowing dynamic discovery and synchronization of all Kafka topics with Snowflake, delivering real-time insights to Data Analysts in collaboration with Data Engineering. Additionally, I designed automated deployment pipelines with Github Actions CI/CD and Terraform Cloud, streamlining the deployment process and reducing errors in the data platform infrastructure. Moreover, I ensured seamless monitoring and proactive alerting for AWS EKS metrics and logs using Grafana.

Draper, Ut, Us

As a Data Operations Engineer, I developed access control patterns with Terraform, ensuring data protection in Snowflake through Okta SCIM and RBAC. Additionally, I authored an open-source Terraform provider in Golang, enabling SnowSQL statement execution as infrastructure-as-code, and led the successful effort to retire our Cloudera data warehouse in favor of Snowflake. Moreover, I executed data pipelines on a private AWS EKS cluster, improving availability by migrating workloads to a Kubernetes cluster and contributing to core Python packages for ETL jobs, promoting test-driven development. Lastly, I built a highly available Elasticsearch cluster with the Helm chart for the ECK operator, enhancing data storage and search capabilities.

Madison, Wisconsin, Us

I designed and built a robust AWS Organization, including Main, Security, Bastion, Network, Logging, and Business Unit accounts. Additionally, I utilized AWS CloudFormation to deploy a serverless Python Flask application with AWS CDN, Lambda, and S3 components, ensuring efficient functionality. Moreover, I met SLAs through vigilant Datadog monitoring and alerting on AWS CloudWatch and EC2 host metrics, with PagerDuty managing on-call triage and notifications. Furthermore, I improved relational database performance by implementing read replicas on AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for heavy batch reporting. Additionally, I developed Ansible playbooks to streamline new AWS account setups, enabling cross-account IAM roles and on-prem network connectivity via Transit Network VPC and AWS Direct Connect. Lastly, I automated EC2 security group compliance across the entire AWS Organization using AWS Config, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudFormation, ensuring security and efficiency.

Madison, Wi, Us

Works as a DevOps Engineer fully involved in the entire lifecycle of Sampleminded’s Lab Information System (LIS). Automates the provisioning of systems and the installation of dependencies with Chef. Engaged in Linux and PostgreSQL administration. Performs routine maintenance on production servers running in AWS. Executes disaster recovery strategy drills.

Madison, Wi, Us

Worked on both the server and client of a lab information management system (LIMS) web application. Programmed, tested, and successfully deployed a 2D barcode technology while working in an agile work environment.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Selected to tutor Java for the Westminster College computer science department. Encouraged valuable programming practices, such as: object−oriented programming, coding conventions, and program readability. Developed strong problem solving and communication skills.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Video Highlights from the past three seasons.A video of the Westminster Snowboard Team at the 2nd Rev Tour stop in Mammoth Lakes, California: https://vimeo.com/119709904.A video of the US Snowboard Team at the World University Games in Trentino, Italy: https://vimeo.com/89274647

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

My academic success is not limited to the hard sciences as I have excelled in ceramic sculpture as well. I have participated in an advanced independent study mentored by master sculptor Clayton Keyes, the head of the Ceramics Department. Due to my connections with Professor Keyes, I became the Treasurer of the recently created Clay Club. My roles extend far beyond simply managing funds; to raise money for a guest artist, I donated and sold my pottery at the Clay Club sale.