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Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Mn

Identified Porter as a technology to invest in for F5 in my role in the office of the CTO. Advocated for internal use around standardization in deployment workflows. Development of internal services leveraging CNCF Porter and CNAB projects. Active participant in design and development of its Kubernetes Operator leading to the 1.0.0 release. https://github.com/getporter/porter/blob/main/OWNERS.md

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

American technology company with 2.7 B in revenue, specializing in application and network security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), availability & performance.• Designed and development of Kubernetes underlay networking via CNI plugins. • Designed and implemented GitOps release workflows. Evangelized and delivered on fully automated workflows while retiring legacy patterns.• Introduced Kubernetes and cloud workflows for internal development services. Lead a refactor of vendor locked, Azure based SaaS to a cloud agonistic Kubernetes microservice architecture.• Advocated for replacing internally created tools with open-source alternatives.• Introduced Kubernetes and cloud workflows for internal development services. Lead a refactor of vendor locked, Azure based SaaS to a cloud agonistic Kubernetes microservice architecture.• Advocated for replacing internally created tools with open-source alternatives. Replaced $250K/yr Terraform Enterprise subscription with open source K8S native service using Porter, Argo Workflows and Cloud Custodian.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Led BIG-IP and NGINX digital transformation initiatives, mentoring new engineers.• Prototyped BIG-IP's first TMM Kubernetes Operator. Key contributor as part of a close-knit team to deliver quickly. This architecture became the foundation for next generation BIG-IP.• Evangelized and led by example Shift-Left, DevOps, and GitOps principles.• Developed automated SDLC Bill of Materials tools and services replacing a historically manual process to assemble a manifest release. Days of effort reduced to a process that automatically happens as part of product assembly for release.• Implemented Cloud Custodian workflows for automated governance over high-cost cloud resources. Automated cleanup of AWS S3 storage saving $100+/quarter.• Refactored Kubernetes open source BDD test patterns for internal testing.• Coach teams on best practices for Behavior Driven Development.• Implemented Terraform based GitOps infrastructure for creation and management of all GitLab repositories for next generation BIG-IP development.• Created an automated, ephemeral, virtual VMWare/vSphere deployment on vSphere as a platform for automated testing of vSphere integration with NGINX Controller. This fully automated process saved hours of manually time for administration of VMware and reduced head count for maintenance.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Moving on from my role as a principal test engineer, I took on the challenge to focus on internal services and tooling. My primary focus being automated testing services. As part of this role I coordinated with stakeholders and strived to provide a healthy backlog for development teams to deliver solutions to consolidate common services among product teams previously maintaining their own infrastructure and solutions.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Optimized test automation services across acquisitions, eliminating duplicate internal services. • Reduced days-long legacy workflows to minutes via creation and refinement of innovative network test automation framework.• Initiated creation of an IDE for network test automation, a passion, basement project ahead of its time, taking an unconventional approach that scaled automated testing and critical path, reducing release time from days to minutes. Remains in use after 17 years. • Led testing for F5's first proprietary SSL stack.• Implemented a fully automated SSL/TLS protocol fuzzing test stack including Synopsys/Codenomicon. o Designed and developed a Linux based distributable test automation solution, based on open-source software o Constructed test harnesses using a variety of switches, routers, aggregation and tagging setups. o Coordinated testing of SSL accelerated encryption, including FIPs