Leeland Artra Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Berlin, Berlin, DE

As the "anchor" Cloud Engineer for a key US aerospace client, I drive best practices in DevOps and cloud infrastructure. I work closely with internal teams and external client engineers, ensuring seamless collaboration and top-tier technical solutions.Daily, I lead the deployment and management of Azure and AWS infrastructure as code using GitLab and tools.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Responsible for developing new Python API applications and researching large language models for use by professional fiction writers around the world. Leveraging well understood writing and publishing industry knowledge and experience as a successful fiction novelist to develop, test, and train highly successful authors on the use of modern technologies.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Working with the Global CTO Team to lead the technical transformation of Fleetcor's architecture, design, and implementations of software, applications, infrastructures, and platforms to cloud and AI computing in AWS and Azure cloud solutions. Directly overseeing the Microsoft and Amazon cloud and AI engineering teams dedicated to Fleetcor's solutions..

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Keeping everyone's data safe and Change Healthcare from being a major news headline.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Building automated infrastructure for PaaS, IaaS, and CaaS solutions improving user experiences for the betterment of everyone's health.

Seattle, Washington, US

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Seattle, Washington, US

• Responsible for enterprise CI/CD solutions using Jenkins, Chef, AWS, and Docker.
• Independently automated 90% of a manual PaaS onboarding process resulting in a reduction from 15 days to 2 days for onboarding new services (87% decrease in time).
• Designed, documented and provided training for automation suite for PaaS team.
• SME of PaaS solution for Nordstrom software engineering solutions.
• Provided critical mentoring and training for Nordstrom transition to AWS.
• Successfully co-engineered enterprise telemetry collection solutions from Docker on EC2.

Seattle, WA, US

• Product development and support of the Order Management Services supporting all brands under Expedia, Inc.
• Instrumental in production services resiliency improvements saving reducing outages and improving mean time to resolution for on-call support teams.
• Assumed Scrum master duties for team and helped develop better agile practices.
• Developed repeatable deployment systems using Chef and linux scripting creating Jenkins CI pipelines.

Kirkland, Washington, US

Contract position with AltaSource exclusively at Expedia in Bellevue. Adding expert knowledge as required to various projects for enterprise web services and developer support.

Bothell, Washington, US

• Responsible for enterprise provisioning and manufacturing web services systems analysis, overseeing development and production services, computing research and developing Java, TDD/Junit, REST, Spring, Hibernate.
• Created custom automated deployment system for production systems using web services.
• Assumed JIRA administration duties and upgraded 4.0 to 4.4 as well as creating custom workflows.
• Removed long standing memory leak in C++ OpenDDS services.

Chesterfield, MO, US

• Responsible for production systems analysis, overseeing long term development projects which encompass all development and production area teams, interacting with SCRUM driven developing for LAMP, Tomcat, SOAP, Java.
• SME & Product owner for PD teams on LAMP/Tomcat enterprise web services operational requirements.
• Oversaw implementation of new object oriented modeling language driven topology configuration and deployment service for LAMP/Tomcat (~30% TCO reduction for all deployment efforts).
• Created new hot fix deployment system for LAMP/Tomcat from scratch (~5% TCO reduction).
• Provided Systems Analysis of deployment processes identifying automation points for ~20% reduction of deployment times.
• Designed and co-developed of new LAMP/Tomcat configuration system to control production web services.

• Responsible for long term development projects of J2EE/REST web services in Agile/SCRUM teams in Spring, Hibernate, LAMP, TDD/Junit, Java, Python, SQL, and BASH.Highlights:
• Lead for development of new loyalty point ecommerce Spring REST web service using SOAP and Hibernate.
• Provided SME support for other teams in Java, Python, SQL, and BASH.
• Wrote BASH TDD system based on sh2Unit automating testing of thousands of lines of previously non-unit tested critical path BASH and Python based services for LAMP/Tomcat/Weblogic web services.
• Re-engineered critical services from BASH and Perl into a unified Jython system (more than 1 million dollars annual TCO reduction).

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsible for systems analysis and long term development projects performing independent computing research in Java, SQL, Perl, and XPath IDM applications.Highlights:
• Introduced Structured Project Management and TDD/Junit to IDM project allowing successful completion.
• Re-engineered Java email processing system enforcing corporate business policies using XML, JDBC, JSP and secure LDAP to examine all email to and from Nintendo.
• SME for troubled projects in Java, C++, embedded C, JSP and Perl and other database systems.

• Responsible for diverse IT projects in custom database applications, ecommerce systems, and automated backup systems for numerous companies.Highlights:
• Oversaw various client development projects using PHP, Java and Perl for ecommerce sales systems.
• Re-engineered medical billing system eliminating security threats for HIPAA compliance in C.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for detailed C & Java systems analysis, developing software engineering plans, overseeing separate development projects and integration technologies to automate and improve laboratory research.Highlights:
• Assisted with establishing numerous grants and contracts with the National Institutes of Health, The National Cancer Institute, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, and Isis Pharmaceuticals.
• Successfully engineered, oversaw implementation of a remote Oracle database automation systems in Java leading to 3 new lines of biological research previously undiscovered.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for oversight and development of real time Java based data sharing & analysis applications for biological laboratories. Highlights:
• Personally created entirely new Java protein analysis automation system to process in over 1 million possible oligopeptide chains against an Oracle database using PL/SQL.
• Oversaw and helped develop Oracle applications and database design for medical research projects in PL/SQL, C, C++ and Labscape.
• Provided key specifications for continued expansion of the departmental Linux server services.
• Successfully installed and created custom interfaces in Java for 3 separate Oracle Servers for various groups associated with the Department of Molecular Biotechnology.
• Establishing a complete Systems Administration group for directly supporting the Department of Molecular Biotechnology with fully automated version control archives using custom KSH & Perl code.

• Responsible for security systems development, phone system administrator / technician, general computing operations as well as debugging software development applications and performing research into new inter-network.
• Designed the data transfer technology specification for implementation in C, which allowed for secure data transfer across public networks.
• Identified construction and maintenance work required for MesaGnostics laboratory and research.

Reston, VA, US

• Performed as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project San Diego Co-Center’s computer senior systems administrator, network administrator, security systems administrator, and phone system.
• Designed custom PL/SQL system for CATIA CAD integration with Oracle 6 & 7
• Designed, wrote and implemented in KSH a backup program that provides daily incremental, periodic full system archiving, and automatic recovery backup tapes of the UNIX, CAD, and database systems.
• Successfully engineered, coded in C and installed a secure dial in/out system for researchers.
• Took technical lead of a SAIT IT group, who were two months behind schedule, to repair their systems and network configuration allowing them to complete a large, highly visible project on schedule.
• Successfully installed and maintained high speed fiber and switched Ethernet network as well as AIX, Solaris, CATIA, CDM, CDMA, Oracle, and Patran on the UNIX servers and workstations.

Washington, DC, US

• San Diego, CA - Positions held: Machinist Mate; Supervisor BEE Testing Facility NNTC Orlando, Florida; Programmer to Senior Chief NNPC Orlando, Florida; Building Supervisor NNTC San Diego, California; Systems Operator.
• Created specialized communication software in C and PL1 as well as assisted in implementing the hardware linkage for the Pacific Fleet's 1990 Battle Fitness training exercises.
• Provided specialized computer systems operations training on Multics ENWGS to participants of the Maritime Defense Zone Exercise for Central California 1990 operations. Received Letter of Appreciation from Commanding.
• Devised recommended and implemented new security management software in DOS Batch, Pascal & DB3 for administration department, saving an estimated 60 hours of labor per month.
• Devised and implemented full system training for Computer System Operators on Tactical Train Group Pacific's Honeywell DPS 8/70 Mainframe running Multics and ENWGS.
• Conceived and developed Computer System Run Book, which described all of the common operations performed by Systems Operators for Multics. Thereby establishing better operational standards.

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