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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

El Segundo, Ca, Us

- Managed backend microservices supporting business operations hosted in AWS as Lambdas and exposed using API Gateway, Cloudfront, and Route53. These services utilized services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS and Amazon RDS to perform their various functions and on orchestration services such as Amazon Eventbridge, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Step Functions.- Managed identity and authorization services utilizing Akamai Identity Cloud servicing millions of monthly active users.- Build an initial green field version of a backend to process direct to consumer sales in AWS using a series of Lambdas with flow managed via EventBridge - Supported and upgraded a legacy containerized PHP application stack servicing the Beachbody Coach network.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

- Migrated 100+ Git repositories from a self hosted GitLab instance to GitHub and coordinated updates to connected CI pipelines to consolidate our sources and shut down an on prem, single point of failure, GitLab instance.- Consolidated all logs, APM, and system monitoring to Datadog from Dynatrace and Loom.- Implemented centralized data protection for EC2, S3, RDS (Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres databases) and DynamoDB on 30+ AWS accounts using Lambdas deployed with Cloudformation using AWS Organizations.- Maintain and implement new Harness, Jenkins, and GitHub actions workflows to manage and deploy various Node.js, Java, and PHP services which support the business.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

- Created Terraform scripts which used Ansible to provision an authenticated Kafka cluster on Azure Virtual Machines.- Created YAML CI/CD pipelines for Node.js and .NET apps running directly as app services or in Docker containers on Azure DevOps.- Used Terraform to provision an Azure Kubernetes cluster (AKS).

Brooklyn, New York, Us

- Containerized a server side rendered React application and an Nginx routing system implemented in Lua using Docker and deployed to AWS EKS using Terraform. The system also takes advantage of SpotInst to minimize costs and is managed by Jenkins which also ran in the Kubernetes cluster.- Built a system utilizing AWS Lambda and SQS, which populates our route store in Redis.- Consolidated CDN usage to Fastly in order to obtain miminal load times including <200ms in NYC.- Introduced and implemented Datadog for monitoring.- Implemented OpenStack to replace a Eucalyptus cluster. Additionally, I built systems to dynamically build single VM development and multi VM staging environments using a slackbot for easy user access and an OAuth implementation for Nginx restricting access to members of our GitHub organization.- Provided operations support for the team which build Refinery29's "Money Diaries" user submission system including integration of RabbitMQ.- Implemented a local development system using Vagrant. This included an extensive ruby plugin which simplified developer effort to update the various source code, sql and nosql databases, which made up the environment.- Converted a legacy Puppet system used to a custom PHP application, MySQL, NGinx, to Ansible- Build a system to automatically switch to a new primary MySQL instance upon receiving a trigger using Chef and prototyped in Vagrant.

New York, Ny, Us

- Created a collection of Chef cookbooks for a prominent engineering firm including custom built Java, Oracle Database, JBoss, and Cassandra Chef cookbooks to support development of a medical device. These playbooks were used with a custom built system to deploy a management application for the medical device to AWS, VMware, or a Vagrant development environment running on Oracle VirtualBox.- Worked on varied teams with between 0 and 6 other developers to build or update websites and web apps for clients, many of which ran on Drupal, but others ran on the Vanilla PHP framework, Experia, and a custom Flask/Node.js/iOS stack. We also used the Angular Javascript framework extensively.- Built a library of Chef cookbooks for deploying LAMP and MEAN stacks on Amazon OpsWorks.- Wrote Puppet scripts for a Puppet deployment system to deploy Rackspace Servers and their software infrastructure and to Virtual Box Vagrant Virtual Machines.- Build web applications for clients with technologies such as Angular, Drupal, and Vanilla Framework for PHP, Javascript, and CSS

- In response to the influx of traffic caused by a client being showcased on Oprah, I implemented a queue system for asynchronously handling requests to a Django service using Celery and RabbitMQ.- Maintained and developed an online fraud detection service to help small businesses detect fraudulent orders including integrations to Shopify and Yahoo shopping.