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Texas, United States

Manhattan Beach, California, Us

• Increased CICD stability and reduced configuration drift by converting Terraform resources to Crossplane resources.• Enabled developers to deploy kubernetes applications to EKS/AKS easily by helping to create an internal development platform that leveraged a variety of open-source tools.• Enabled developers to easily configure application access to cloud resources from a single YAML manifest by helping to write multiple kubernetes operators, custom Crossplane providers, and compositions.• Developed the “nax” cli tool to allow developers and clients to access and leverage our platform.

Coppell, Texas, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Contract through TakumiCloud• Enabled application, IT, and other teams to take advantage of cloud resources by writing easily-configurable Terraform modules.• Setup a CI pipeline to automatically setup SAML integration and other configuration options.

San Jose, California, Us

Contract through Pima Labs• Worked with key stakeholders to design and implement a migration plan that encompassed customer data, network, compute, and access management resources to GCP using Terraform.• Provisioned network resources to connect Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources to the on-prem client data center networks via Interconnect using Terraform.• Provided a Terraform workshop to assist DevOps team with migration.

• Worked for various clients as a contract employee, including City National Bank and [24]7.ai• Facilitated the onboarding of new developers by writing documentation and how-to articles.• Allowed developers to take ownership of their CICD pipelines by creating Python command-line utilities to retrieve infrastructure data.• Facilitated the adoption of new tools and languages by providing technical training and on-call support.• Streamline maintenance process by creating custom tools and scripts as necessary.• Reduce technical debt by refactoring code to conform with software development best practices.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Contract through Pima Labs• Migrated custom vSphere templates to Chef Recipes and Terraform Modules.• Enforced proper separation of data and code by creating custom Chef resources.• Implemented custom Terraform modules to provision resources on Azure.• Coded Python script to automatically install and bootstrap newly provisioned RHEL machines to a Chef server.

• Refactored Chef cookbooks to automatically configure physical servers.• Improved reliability of code by adding unit tests and integration tests.• Eliminated technical debt and improved quality of code by rewriting applications using software development best practices.• Streamlined application deployment process by writing a CICD pipeline using git, Python, and other CI tools.• Streamlined dependency management using language-specific dependency managers.

• Helped maintain accurate inventory by maintaining the in-house inventory software and developing tools using VB.NET and C#.• Improved physical security by installing additional security cameras and setting up a separate Windows workstation to monitor the cameras 24/7.• Avoided complete store shutdown by developing a temporary Point-of-Sale System (POS) system using C# and SSRS in 3 days in preparation of scheduled down time.