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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Universal City, California, Us

• Spearheaded effort to re-architect delivery pipeline, from new code submission through build, deployment, and validation, reducing time-to-market from weeks to hours.• Authored automated performance testing platform in python, using AWS EC2 Spot Instances to execute JMeter and Locust tests in widely distributed manner. Used Influx DB and Grafana for live metrics. • Reduced cost, increased speed of test execution, and quality of releases.• Steered 300% increase in automated test codebase, to achieve nearly 100% test coverage. Tests covered Fandango web application, mobile native apps, and embedded console and Smart TV apps, using combination of Java / Selenium / Espresso, Node.js / Mocha / Cucumber.js / WebdriverIO, Swift, and Roku’s BrightScript.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Owned operational responsibilities of enterprise integration pattern components, producers, consumers, and brokers that transformed and persisted data from authoritative sources to near-cache stores for website.• Directed re-architecture and development of CMS system, migrating from Oracle Coherence to Redis on AWS ElastiCache, and further backed by Amazon S3. Entire system was re-architected in Java.• Functioned as core DevOps team member, migrating monolithic JSP services to lightweight microservices using AWS Lambda functions behind API Gateway endpoints and helping replace aging home-grown authentication system with AWS Cognito, as well as helping to manage IAM policies across our AWS accounts.• Drove configuration as code using Chef for configuration management and infrastructure automation.• Built solution to optimize AWS EC2 reserved instance utilization, saving roughly $50k / month in operating costs by increasing RI utilization from roughly 50% to over 95%. • Designed, developed, and owned several microservice-oriented web applications using AngularJS and MongoDB for variety of purposes, including production monitoring, enterprise-level job scheduling, and self-help database tasks helping provide visibility and adding to developer experience.• Served as core contributor and co-lead in migration of diverse set of data stores to AWS, including multi-terabyte Oracle installations to PostgreSQL and from Netezza to RedShift, freeing company from expensive contracts and achieving significant cost savings.• Expanded team’s mandate from RDBMS infrastructure to include both NoSQL data stores (MongoDB, Apache Solr, Redis, Oracle Coherence, and DynamoDB) and Big Data clusters (Hadoop, Netezza and RedShift), as well as our MicroStrategy installation.• Led standardization and optimization of DynamoDB table design and auto-scaling that addressed timeouts, throttling, sharding, capacity, and cost overruns.

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Designed and executed testing procedures for all DolphinSearch software products; developed and maintained automated testing tools and frameworks.