Databases at Equinix Metal

* Built out Shopify’s large-scale, cloud ScyllaDB environment in GCP using Terraform and Kubernetes to serve over 110 million events daily* Developed and maintained a patchset that added multiple region support to the open source ScyllaDB Kubernetes Operator and Medusa backup program for ScyllaDB* Worked with multiple teams across the organization to design, deploy, and commission the ScyllaDB clusters* Benchmarked and tuned MySQL and Linux installations to resolve critical query performance problems using tools such as linux perf, flamegraphs and techniques such as USE * Designed and implemented Prometheus exporter in Go to capture MySQL database KPI Metrics improving system heath signals for workload throughput

* Redesigned the existing high-availability MySQL on VM setup to run on Docker and Kubernetes with custom Kubernetes Operator to support thousands of MySQL instances* Project champion for numerous key initiatives such as moving MySQL from VMs to Kubernetes and region load testing* Responsible for the availability, performance and on-call incident response for Shopfy’s petabyte scale core MySQL deployment

Leading a team and being a core technical contributor designing, implementing, supporting and marketing an OpenStack IaaS private cloud for Internal IT consumption

Lead project to use Puppet, Git and Jenkins CI to automate an large systems environment of over 3500 servers and hundreds of applications

Deployed Large Scale Linux HPC Clusters used for engineering analysis in 6 locations in 3 countries

Ran commands on Mainframes, slung Tapes and fixed WAN Links