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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Develop upon, maintain, and architect realtime bid request-response system supporting 1.3+ billion requests per day, featuring linear scaling costs, custom metric publishing / visibility, and a "serverless" architecture for hands-off maintenance / scaling. Utilizes Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudWatch, S3, EventBridge, SQS, SNS.• Led cost-cutting / system stability initiative, which resulted in ~50% reduction in daily AWS costs and a reduced rate of system downtime events without… Show more • Develop upon, maintain, and architect realtime bid request-response system supporting 1.3+ billion requests per day, featuring linear scaling costs, custom metric publishing / visibility, and a "serverless" architecture for hands-off maintenance / scaling. Utilizes Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudWatch, S3, EventBridge, SQS, SNS.• Led cost-cutting / system stability initiative, which resulted in ~50% reduction in daily AWS costs and a reduced rate of system downtime events without sacrificing functionality.• Implemented OAuth2 for Single Sign-On (SSO) for customer-facing web platform.• Manage overall AWS management, including implementation of short-lived tokens for all administrative users, AWS IAMIC for Single Sign-On, best practices for secure multi-account management and access via Control Tower and AWS Organizations, backups, AWS CDK, and billing.• Building and leading development of a custom AI chatbot supporting device inventory searches, ad campaign management, and more. Show less

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Building and maintaining computer vision (CV) and geolocation data platform for use with data science algorithms for identifying and tracking objects and devices.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Led architecture and design for new SaaS-based agent telemetry data ingestion pipeline, supporting hundreds of thousands of requests per second, archival to distributed storage, custom metrics and alarms, and queued writes to fast-queryable datastores. Utilizes Amazon Kinesis, Application Load Balancer, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.• Architected various components of SaaS-based cloud security posture management platform. This included distributed management of… Show more • Led architecture and design for new SaaS-based agent telemetry data ingestion pipeline, supporting hundreds of thousands of requests per second, archival to distributed storage, custom metrics and alarms, and queued writes to fast-queryable datastores. Utilizes Amazon Kinesis, Application Load Balancer, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.• Architected various components of SaaS-based cloud security posture management platform. This included distributed management of multi-tenant task orchestration at scale in such a way that the various task executors could be built and maintained by separate teams concurrently, while also ensuring these can be monitored for debugging and troubleshooting. Show less

Pittsburgh, Pa

• Led architecture and design for new Kubernetes-based platform to replace aging software stack. Designed to work in a "cloud native" fashion despite requirements to deploy on cloud platforms and bare metal on-site.• Planned and created a cloud-based continuous integration stack for software builds on AWS featuring dynamically allocated container-based builds, validation, and testing of build artifacts upon generation using industry-standard tool sets. Uses AWS EC2, ECS, S3, Jenkins Blue… Show more • Led architecture and design for new Kubernetes-based platform to replace aging software stack. Designed to work in a "cloud native" fashion despite requirements to deploy on cloud platforms and bare metal on-site.• Planned and created a cloud-based continuous integration stack for software builds on AWS featuring dynamically allocated container-based builds, validation, and testing of build artifacts upon generation using industry-standard tool sets. Uses AWS EC2, ECS, S3, Jenkins Blue Ocean, bare metal and cloud builds, and Docker image bundling for bare metal, air-gapped deployments.• Designed and built a scalable cloud-based REST API using AWS Kinesis, API Gateway, Lambda, and S3 for streaming in high-volume network traffic metrics data, processing / indexing data, and retrieval all in real-time.• Architected and implemented a deterministically-addressed cloud-based overlay network providing direct IP connectivity between clients with no publicly addressable IP addresses on EC2.• Built a custom Terraform provider to demonstrate driving of legacy project using its existing APIs. Show less

Greensburg, Pa

Planned and implemented the transition of traditional on-site server infrastructure to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Resources implemented include a network file server, client VPN server, multiple LMS and web servers, and more.Planned and executed campus-wide migration from on-premises Exchange installation to Google Apps for Education.

Greensburg, Pa

Work includes development and maintenance of the college’s iPad, iPhone, and web content. Duties also include developing web applications that simplify and automate college process workflows.

Fairmont, Wv

Tested and provided feedback on software developed for mission readiness assessment of US Navy ships.