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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Worked on a platform team to provide a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery platform forhundreds of developers deploying the company's next generation microservice-based products.● Maintained and extended microservice fleet (NestJS) and eventing engine (Kafka)● Contributed to troubleshooting of complex cloud network topology● Developed proof-of-concept feature offerings (Google Cloud Functions)● Responded to and resolved outage and service degradation eventsContributed as a special response engineer to projects that needed infrastructure expertise.● Overhauled Bitbucket backup (450 GB of code storage) to eliminate nightly downtime● Automated custom source code packaging and delivery for escrow requirements● Pioneered automated deployment of source code management components● Led migration of enterprise-scale TeamCity build pipeline to GitHub Actions

Led an infrastructure-focused development team on a project to modernize the company’sinfrastructure for its next-generation application. Led and directly contributed to development of:● Kubernetes cluster infrastructure (GKE/GCP) for highly available web application● Continuous integration and deployment (Gitlab CI) of application containers● Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) and logging (Stackdriver) for application● Helm chart and versioning scheme for application release● new and existing backend APIs, migration of .NET Framework APIs to .NET Core● Full-stack contributions to frontend (React) and business logic backend (C#)● React Native wrapper application to serve as rich frontend for web offeringAdditionally:● Led outage response for incidents relating to both modern and legacy applications● Collaborated with solutions architect to set project direction● Mentored 3-5 team members for skill and career development● Led department-wide workshops on Docker, Kubernetes, and Gitlab CI