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Livermore, California, Us

EMT supporting NICU/PICU transports for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital StanfordNICU/PICU & BLS FTOEMT driver for BLS IFT across the Bay Area divisionDeployed as one of the 9 EMT team to the Standing Rock Reservation for a 5-day mission to provide well-being clinics for the people of the Lakota tribes

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Heavily contributed to Square's serving platform while working across multiple roles as Square grew from a startup of 300 employees to an enterprise with over 7000 employees.Highlighted roles and projects:Infrastructure engineer on a cross-company team of 15 individuals who launched the first version of Cash App in 2013.Worked on the systems infrastructure team responsible for building Square's physical data centers on the US East Coast, US West Coast and in Japan. This included onsite visits to the data centers to interact directly with server hardware when required.Early member of Square's Observability team. Helped write a centralized server monitoring tool in Ruby to replace multiple, independent Nagios instances.Member of the Data Engineering team focused on scaling and stabilizing the on-prem Hadoop & Vertica clusters. Also wrote software to manage data growth on these clusters.Lead for the cross-platform containerization project to move Square's MySQL data stores to Docker containers in production.Interim Network Engineering Manager (3 months) for a team of 5 network engineers responsible for all aspects of Square's network, including production network transport and transit, core networking hardware in Square’s data centers, and Square’s payment gateways with the major payment networks.Engineering Manager (18 months) for the platform Build team of 4 engineers responsible for building and maintaining Square’s custom build system which builds, tests, and bundles software for release to production for 1400+ engineers.Member of the taskforce responsible for migrating Square's software repositories from an on-prem Bitbucket instance to Github. Work included writing multiple backend services to utilize Github's API to improve developer productivity at Square.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Primary SRE for Recommendation Engine development team.Add both incremental and comprehensive improvements to site-wide operations tooling and automation.Create documentation for new and existing services.Provided international, onsite training to support the growth of a 24x7 Operations centerMember of the weekly 24x7 SRE oncall rotation for backend data systems.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Supported an installation of over 10,000 Linux systems, based in several globally diverse datacenters, which provided one of the largest display advertising solutions on the Internet.Performed end-to-end launch coordination and execution for multiple production deployments from the Production Engineering perspective.Drove the migration from an internal department based production graphing tool to a company-wide solution. This included architecting a seamless transition plan, adding specific migration features to legacy code, and writing a majority of the initial software for programmatic interaction with the new system.Wrote and maintained automation and alerting tools for the production environment.Participated in the 12x7 on-call rotation.

Solely responsible for all IT and telecommunications infrastructure for a company of 50 employees based in 3 separate locations across the US.Implemented, from scratch, multiple critical computer-based business tools for internal customers. Installed and maintained a variety of proprietary and open-source software.

Performed UNIX administration on dozens of Solaris hosts as a member of the Enterprise Infrastructure Team.

Bs, Computer Science, Business Administration

Computer Science