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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

* Designed and implemented cloud network and kubernetes architecture using terraform.* Developed and implemented a multi-account AWS strategy using dynamic team based RBAC.* Standardized all application access via SSO with Okta greatly reducing new hire on boarding and off boarding.* Developed on hardware CI testing using raspberry pi for firmware testing during pull requests.* Improved automation for Android/iOS CI/CD and migrated from CCI to GitHub Actions leveraging an AWS hosted mac1.metal instances.* Migrated all repos from Bitbucket Cloud to GitHub.* Created certificate management service for dynamically issuing certificates for AWS IoT Things.* Standardized all third party configuration around terraform with git and CI/CD.* Deployed HA open source Hashicorp Vault and consolidated all secrets in it.

Mountain View, California, Us

• Expanded Confluent Cloud Platform to support Microsoft Azure cloud, including cross tenant VNET peering.• Standardized Linux Kernel tuning parameters cross cloud providers allowing greater efficiency and therefore cost reduction.• Revamped and standardized all Datadog monitors and Runbooks, greatly reducing oncall burden.• Created tooling for automatic gathering of statistics for weekly operational reviews; which lead to considerable platform stability improvements.• Developed golang application for dynamic customer initiated network peering with AWS, GCP, and Azure.• Completed SOC II audit.

San Jose, California, Us

Responsibilities• Automated process for clustering kubernetes clusters on Azure, including bootstrapping initial cluster, RBAC and hardening CoreOS (based on eznetes).• Designed and developed cloud infrastructure as code using terraform.• Created self service tools for maintaining cloud infrastructure. Build/scale/stop/start vms, deploy applications, and obtain access.• Broke down silos between engineering departments improving collaborationand ultimately improving applications with the resulting communication.• Developed Puppet modules for the installation of Splunk, Nagios agents, as well as other OS tweaks such as disk mounting, encryption, and hardening.• Site coordinator in charge of organizing and facilitating events.• Lead team member: Responsible for defining team best practices and helping teammates design systems that comply with those standards.Achievements• Discovered cost-saving measures to save over 80k in cloud costs annually.• Successfully migrated 65+ applications (~3000 servers) from on-prem datacenters to AWS and Azure.• Convinced team to migrate to agile software development and championed the adoption of git over former perforce source control.• Founding member of kubernetes and cloud-automation guilds.

San Jose, California, Us

• Designed and implemented automated on-boarding solution for application configuration, including fully automated create/destroy/stop/start of nodes, self-service access and application deployments.• Developed flexible templates used for describing and deploying cloud resources.• Over two years, migrated over 65 applications with over 2 thousand servers, 10 regions globally and 6 operating systems.• Created documentation and training materials for new employees.

Corvallis, Or, Us

Helping students debug and fix their projects, while also teaching them valuable hands-on skills and concepts.

Over the phone and email, of generic computer support. Helping to support a user base of well over 20,000 people!

Everything imaginable that can be done in a food department. Notably price changing and forklift driving.