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San Francisco Bay Area

AI Full stack Development in TypeScript engaged in creating revolutionary new context-aware code review feedback using AI, Machine Learning and LLM's (Large Language Models).

● Creator, Lead Developer and CEO for the web application "Saddlebag Exchange" or saddlebagexchange.com which maintains thousands of users. ● Saddlebag Exchange provides market trading tools and economic analytics over several virtual marketplaces with millions of daily traders. ● Personally developing new market quantitative finance solutions to provide our users with search methods to identify profi table trade opportunities, market trade monitoring, market alerting and further insight into the virtual marketplace.● Recruited and managed a growing dev team of over 10 engineers.● Creator of the open-source organization where we maintain the codebase used for Saddlebag Exchange.● Lead developer of custom API backend systems running on python flask and fastapi.● Development of chat bot functions and alerting systems.● Overseeing frontend development team working with React framework.● Actively managing domains, production Kubernetes clusters, and relational database infrastructure hosted in cloud IaaS infrastructure.● Established community forum exchange and support systems.● Developing strategies for SEO and Google Adsense as a revenue system.● Manages advertising and product promotion to expand our user base.

Miami, Florida, United States

* Teaching courses in Python, Shell Scripting, Linux, AWS and DevOps Agile Principals* Develop and teaches courses on AI computer visualization and natural language* Develops Virtual Economics Research and Saddlebag Exchange project to teach students and build professional experience for students

● Solutions engineer at NightVision Inc. engaged in Product R&D, Product CI/CD testing, Training, Documentation, Sales Engineering and Customer Success.● Developed continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) Dynamic Application Security Testing product systems for customer security scans.● Working with Python Flask, FastAPI, Django, .NET, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Java Spring, PHP, and more!● Developing revolutionary application logging integrations with Docker, DataDog, Splunk and Grafana.● Working with marketing team to develop guides, tutorials, videos, blogs and advertising materials.

Santa Clara, California, United States

* Continuation of my position at Volterra Inc. after its acquisition by F5* Developing smart retail solutions using k8s, GPU processing, kerberos.io video storage and AI* Working with GoLang API libraries on volterra terraform providers

Santa Clara County, California, United States

* gitlab / advanced gitlab CI/CD pipeline design* kubernetes / docker* kubernetes networking / mesh networking* terraform* golang / bash / shell / ruby* aws / azure / gcp / vagrant / vmware vsphere* centos / redhat / alpine* http api's* creating techincal guides and recording guided video tutorials for Volterra use cases* building multi cloud and hardware edge device use cases for technical guides* built a pipeline to support concurrent multi cloud, multi node clusters using Volterra networking and kubernetes technology.* creating daily regression testing with staging / production separation* creating scale tests capable of deploying hundreds of instances

Sunnyvale, Ca

Touched all areas of SRE @ Illumio● AWS administration of EC2, EBS, EIP, Route53 addressing and health checks, Cloudwatch, S3,IAM user control, SQS, GuardDuty.● Automated AWS IAM management with Cloudformation ● Worked with the “Illumio for Containers” service to secure containerized applications running inOpenShift and Kubernetes using Illumio's Adaptive Security Platform.● Creation and maintenance of developer-facing slack bot running the ruby lita-slack repository codebase to manage multiple AWS applications through stop, start, reboot, tagging, instance creation, developer workgroups, ssh access control, stash repository management, and Illumio software installation functions in combination with SQS and concourse.● Cluster deployment using Ansible and Chef.● Advanced programming in Ruby, Bash and Python.● Assisting in maintaining and releasing code to a production SAAS cluster.● Engaged in on-call rotations to monitor SAAS and production resources.● High knowledge of PagerDuty API, created an automated on-call production ticketing system.● Created an automated multi-region multi-account pen-testing tool utilizing NMap and Edgescan.● Gained Illumio associate product certification.● Regular use of Jira, Stash, Slack, and Confluence. Created multiple concourse pipelinesautomating processes of creating Jira tickets, updating stash repositories, updating confluencewiki pages, automated messaging and bot features on Slack.● Taught in internal 3-day bootcamp training courses on the Illumio product, while responsible for the administration, upgrades maintenance and deployment of the training production SAAS clusters.

San Jose

Developed containerized docker architecture solutions. Developed and maintained containers on a private DockerHub. Developed Consul clusters for service discovery Developed a container orchestration system using Docker Swarm. Created Infrastructure as Code with Hashicorp Terraform for automated server deployment and bootstrapping. Utilized Consul health checks, watches and key value stores for auto scaling and self-healing. Worked in Openstack, AWS and GCP platforms.

Master'S Degree, Networking And Systems Administration, 3.95

Activities and Societies: RIT Network Administration Club (NextHop), RIT Linux Users Group (RITlug)

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Mathematics, 3.76