Bram Swenson Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

* Moved to Civiqs Project as Ops Lead and Senior Developer* Refactored very complex application state transformations into a well designed and easy to understand State Machine* Worked closely with Civiqs Director and Chief Scientist to port his complex but functional Jupyter notebook scripts into scalable implementations for many backend batch processing components using Python pandas, AWS SQS and very large datasets* Migrated Rails 4.x Application with large Postgresql DB from Heroku to AWS ECS/Docker using `terraform`* Replaced `heroku` cli with `bash` scripts replicating most useful commands like `shell` to the AWS ECS environment* Developed and fine tuned docker based local development workflow for microservices architecture* Implemented and maintained end-to-end automation all the way to Staging and Production deployments being performed with CircleCI* Lead integration and deployment efforts for many ReactJS frontends* Developed many terraform modules for things like ecs_autoscaling_cluster, ecs_autoscaling_service_behind_alb, and static_website_on_s3_behind_cloudfront* Designed and managed ALB + Nginx routing layer proxying for Rails, NodeJS, ReactJS, s3 static sites (all assets coming from cloudfront)* When the Civiqs Lead Developer left for another company, I served as interim Team Lead* Deployed and developed centralized log and metrics collection with Cloudwatch Logs and Datadog (and many smaller players)* Many integration efforts for metrics/logs collection/aggregations* Lead efforts to create metric dashboards in Datadog* Constantly instilled the value of metrics driven decision making* Maintained cluster health of several Elasticsearch clusters* All servers are autoscaled, even single server asgs* Secured VPC, no servers with public addresses, only AWS (A/E)LBs* Terraform it all! From github repos to pagerduty schedules* Currently spiking work with terratest, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Kubernetes EKS preview, and ConcourseCI

Oakland, California, Us

* Hired as Senior Developer on DailyKos Project in 2014* Researched and Implemented Sharded/Replicated Database Solutions within very large Rails 4.x Application* Lead migration from Internap Bare Metal to AWS using Infrastructure as Code techniques** Leaned heavily on `terraform` v0.3.7 to perform migration (IAM wasn't even supported yet)** Replaced chef server provisioning with Immutable AMIs based on chef-solo built by packer** Implemented Autoscaling Load Balanced Server Groups for all critical services** Secured VPC, no servers with public addresses, only ELBs** Performed entire migration under the deadline of Senior DevOps final date (Less than 2 months)* Implemented routing and caching layer in front of all backend services with AWS ELB + Varnish + Nginx* Assisted with development and lead deployment of Varnish Edge Side Includes* Continued as Lead Ops Engineer through 2016 Elections in which dailykos.com was constantly battling reddit.com for the 99th most trafficked site in the US with over 2M daily views according to quantcast* Worked with management to institute and lead a bi-weekly team skillshare

Oakland, Ca, Us

* Started as Second of all Technical Employees * Consolidated Ruby and Node.js Applications from Proprietary Hosting Services to AWS * Implemented predictable and repeatable full stack deployment with Ansible * Lead the upgrade of core application to Ruby on Rails 3.2.x and Ruby 2.1.x * Upgraded Node.js Daemon from 0.6 to 0.10 versions * Initiated efforts to replace a monolithic application design with a service oriented one * Brought core Node.js Daemon from 0% to 100% test coverage * Technical lead on Public Website Redesign (2014) * Authored Salesforce Database Caching and Replication system via Salesforce Streaming API * Copious Salesforce Integration Work * Managed remote consulting teams combined efforts * Installed and deployed Jenkins for CI and multi-stage deployments * Deployed Errbit for Exception Capture, Aggregation and Reporting * Implemented Sensu and many sophisticated service checks for critical service monitoring * Instituted organizational processes with Trello boards * Migrated complex untested UI into a tested Ember SPA * 99% Off Site and Remote Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

* Senior team member of one of Kabams top grossing games * Solved Ruby/Rails scaling issues on a daily basis with more than 500,000 MaU * Implemented an advanced Rate Limiting and Security system that noticeably increased system performance and throughput * Added a significant test coverage to an extremely large monolithic application that had no tests * Designed system wide statistics and trend graphing system wide with statsd/graphite * Refactored a major system component with Node.js and Coffeescript with much test coverage in mocha (done) * Worked on Facebook, Google+ and other social network integration efforts * Created a series of presentations given to co-workers on Ruby, BDD, git, git-flow

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Technical lead for 2012 redesign project for major car manufacturers web ecosystem * Designed and Implemented API services for various Back-end services with Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Grape * Leading push to implement BDD testing policies and code reviews for Technology team * Spearheaded adoption of proper git work-flow within Agile processes * Developed highly available configurations for server deployments via Chef * Refactored heavy ETL based inventory application into a simple API service * Worked with clients and other 3rd parties to ensure production of technical architectures * Implemented API services and backbone.js architecture for the “Road Frustration Index” project * Acted as a subject matter expert across a broad range of subjects for Technology Team

* Created Rails 3 based Credit Application system with extensive integration with 3rd party webservices * Developed Rails3 Product Enrollment site integrated with Google Analytics * Converted DelayedJobs based job queuing system to Resque * Integration with many 3rd party web services using SOAP and other web protocols * Introduced BDD processes with Cucumber and Pickle * Implemented Continuous Integration services with Hudson * Migrated deployment scripts from Capistrano to Chef * Deployed Chef server management systems for production servers

* Created Rails Video Transcoding Service using AMQP, Daemon-Kit, and FFMPEG * Developed Rails Video Recording Service using Erlyvideo back-end * Produced Rails RTMP Streaming Service using Erlyvideo back-end * Implemented Rails DNS record management tool for data-center customers using PowerDNS * Designed and Assembled many Rails and Django projects for data-center customer base * Created XenSource and KVM based Virtualization management system with libvirt and Python * Deployed various systems management and monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk, etc. * Installed and maintained various hardware devices * Lead in technical matters from design and implementation to support and maintenance * Training and support of operations and development teams * Pre/Post sale engineering and requirements gathering * Network planning, installation, and maintenance * Acquired “Digium Certified Asterisk Professional” certificatio