Andy Shoemaker Email & Phone Number

Newton, Ma, Us

NimbusDDOS is the premier vendor of DDOS simulation and testing services. We have standard attacks up to 20Gbps and 3 million packets per second. Our flexible cloud architecture also allows for custom attacks in excess of 100Gbps.Typical client use cases are:- Validate that mitigation hardware and services are functioning properly- Train IT staff in identification and mitigation of real DDoS attacks in a controlled setting- Assess environment susceptibility to DDoS

Wellesley Hills, Us

Consultancy specializing in IT, technical operations, and datacenter operations for clients of all sizes. Areas of expertise include:• Devops style integration and architecting• Network architecting, implementation, and troubleshooting• Datacenter audits, buildouts, and moves• Outsourced CIO• Network and system security (penetration testing, DDoS mitigation, audit)• Experience with massive scale consumer websitePast projects• Provided a comprehensive distributed denial of service (DDoS) assessment and mitigation strategy for a website operated by one of the 2012 presidential candidates• Architect, implement, and support an AWS cloud-based patient electronic medical record (EMR) system• Create the NimbusDDOS denial of service attack simulation platform http://www.NimbusDDOS.com/• Provided a comprehensive technical assessment and created a strategic operations road map for a large publisher of book and ebooks.

Watertown, Ma, Us

An AWS subject matter expert with a focus on security and open source technologies. Projects included:- Designed and built infrastructure in AWS for a HIPAA compliant clinical document repository for a major health care customer. LEveraged auto-scaling, and extensive automation.- Designed and built infrastructure in AWS for a content sharing mobile app. Leveraged auto-scaling and extensive automation.- Migrated the physical infrastructure for a domain name registry to AWS to handle traffic spike due to a newly launched top-level domain. Extensive use of auto-scaling, and load testing to confirm environment was properly prepared.- Created a full-mesh site-to-site VPN topology within AWS. Extensive use of core AWS topics such as routing tables, VPC design, and security groups.

Needham, Ma, Us

Most senior Linux systems and network engineer responsible for Linux system administration, network administration, data center operations, vendor relationships, and hardware for the massive-scale tripadvisor.com website and all development environments.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Most senior systems and network engineer, and team manager for the team responsible for building, and maintaining the high-scale backend used by all Harmonix video games (xbox, ps3, wii)• Deployed new infrastructure at corporate datacenter, and migrated the backends for RockBand 1 & 2 from 3rd party provider.• Worked closely with senior developers to architect a new backend to be used in the unreleased RockBand 3 video game. This architecture includes a new data warehousing component.• Bot testing of the backend used by The Beatles:RockBand. Provided solid metrics on what user levels could be reached ensuring a smooth launch day, and handling of holiday traffic spikes.• Managed two other system administrators.• Worked closely with web/backend developers to create processes to minimize release related downtimes.• Setup various report automation to replace manual data gathering.• Troubleshooting various issues in the development and production environment, for both internally developed components and “black box” third-party software.

• Created free email service hotpop.com with one other owner/employee• Grew from a single system with no users to a user base of over 1 million• Extensive development in C to provide stable email backend for our custom Java front-end• Created large number of scripts and automation to allow the business to run unmanned 24/7 with a minimal amount of downtime and maintenance.• Expanded from a single system to a densely packed, high efficiency rack of servers.• Worked with a variety of vendors to minimize costs while still expanding infrastructure foot print.

• Most senior systems and network manager for one of the worlds largest online casino and poker rooms (everestpoker.com, everestcasino.com sponsor of the World Series of Poker on ESPN at the time)• Expanded server footprint from 3 servers to about 300 servers.• Expanded from single datacenter to three in diverse geographic areas.• Opened three remote offices• Closed one office during downsizing/layoffs• Managed and trained a team of end-user support technicians• Managed and trained a team of Linux system administrators• Expanded Internet facing datacenters from 1mbit bandwidth to 3gbit with full redundancy• Worked closely with a variety of small and large vendors and a collection of ISPs• Worked alongside software engineering to architect, implement, and maintain a managed online casino/poker product for third-part casino operators.• Created many inexpensive, home-grown applications for a variety of projects and migrated these to enterprise replacements where applicable as the company grew.• Provided 24/7 support, and security response for a high availability, internet-facing ecommerce business with extremely high transaction volume.• Expanded from a small environment with single points of failure to a true high availability solution to guarantee virtually zero downtime.• Provided the technical expertise to assist the company growing from 12 employees to about 300 employees• Provided the technical expertise to assist the company in growing from a tiny customer base to a massive, global online community• Implemented creative solutions to a variety of unique problems.• Performed extensive system and network optimization to handle unexpected growth for a minimal cost on a short schedule.• Involved in both SOX and PCI DSS compliance• Built and deployed the initial infrastructure for (worldwinner.com)• Built and deployed the infrastructure for the first online for-money pachinko room (janpachi.com)

• In co-operation with a senior software engineer, built out the entire initial website and backend servers for www.worldwinner.com (now owned by GSN).