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United States

Working on the Kasten K10 Kubernetes backup solutionSupport development and test environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Digital OceanCreate tooling using Go to analyze and improve resource usage by optimizing instance sizing and discovering leftover resourcesBuild out static infrastructure using ansible and terraformManage the CI/CD backend cluster used to execute Codefresh run times

• Acquired by Kaseya for $6.2B on 6/23/22• Work with the Engineering Productivity team performing a mix of software development and DevOps/SRE tasks• Develop and maintain a python Django REST application used by developers and QA to rapidly create ephemeral test environments. Application is running in kubernetes and utilizes redis.• Automate VM template creation using packer, kiwi, ansible, and more to ensure a secure lab environment running the latest patches for all test OSes from windows 7/2008, ubuntu14.04 and up.• Ensure the infrastructure is stable and expands as needed. Includes VMware, hyperv, openstack, and a custom build of openstack• Maintain and expand functionality of a custom openstack environment written in Go

• Acquired by IBM for $2.1B on 6/17/21• Lead engineer in charge of architecting a next generation python test framework to combine multiple disparate systems and create a testing system that is fast, reliable, and easy to triage• New python framework allows for rapid expansion of our QE org while simultaneously reducing third party tool license costsMeasure, store, and analyze system and API performance build over build using python, SQL, and grafana• Triage and maintain REST API tests in ReadyAPI• Work with customer account teams to build scripts to collect and manipulate large quantities of data for analysis• Help development teams and their embedded quality engineers shift testing left to catch bugs earlier in the development cycle

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Work with a small team to design, architect, and implement a modern test automation infrastructure based on python 3.7. This fully object oriented system runs in a containerized docker environment, and is purpose built for scale and speed. My first responsibility was building the infrastructure to support HyperV and Vmware concurrently. HyperV support was eventually dropped, and kubernetes (k8s) was addedMain Features:* Full stack automation - Cleaning, Deployment, configuration, test execution, and analysis* Deployment consisted of PXE installing ESXi on baremetal, then building a rig on top* Testrunner that monitors for new builds and fires off containers as needed* Streamlined Object Oriented interface allows for simple test creation* System under test interactions through various public API classes* Tests are executed using pytest* Interface directly with artifactory and foreman to automatically pull the correct images and deploy them* test results published in junit.xml files, and imported into a central DB to be presented in a common dashboard i createdKubernetes work for CSI storage plugins:* Add kubernetes python client support through out infrastructure* Provide a way to rapidly deploy a fully customized k8s cluster for creating development or test environments* Validate all custom PODs start properly* product sweep tests via pytest* Execute the vmware CSI end to end (e2e) tests

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Acquired by HPE for $650M on 1/17/17Working in the Test Engineering department to enhance the existing perl test automation framework to allow SimpliVity's hyperconverged platform to support Microsoft's HyperV hypervisor.Working in an agile scrum team, using atlassian tools (jira, confluence, bitbucket)Working with a team to create smokes tests that run with every build using Robot Framework and python

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Member of NetApp System Test (NST) organization tasked with combining test plans from all different technical groups across the product into a large scale systemic interaction test planTeam lead for WAFL features required to analyze asks from various functional QA teams and create a test plan to ensure proper systemic coverage of new features and regressionsLab Manager in charge of budgeting, planning, ordering, and maintaining equipment. Must look at the upcoming hardware and software release cycles to determine team’s hardware needs.Improved existing hardware utilization resulting in reductions in quarterly budget requirements by designing an intern project, screening candidates, and managing the intern from start to finish. Resulting product has been rolled out to multiple teams and is polling over 1500 pieces of lab equipment for configurations and utilization.Maintain the software left by the intern to implement new features and resolve bugs. Required learning javascript, SQL, and php on the fly to maintain the code.

Raleigh

Smart grid collection engine and meter security testing and verification

Test Engineer for the Eagle XG Service Broker platform