Brent Walker Email & Phone Number

North Carolina, United States

-- Client: Outdoorsy :: 2022 - 2024Member of the operations team supporting all Outdoorsy infrastructureTechnology / ToolsGoogle Cloud, Kubernetes, GKE, Postgresql, Redis, Terraform, Github Actions, Cloudflare, AWS, GoTechnology / ToolsTerraform, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GKE, Docker, Github Actions, Redis, Postgresql, CircleCI, Tailscale-- Client: BCD Travel :: 2016 - 2021Member of operations team responsible for Tripsource Hotels infrastructureTechnology / ToolsAnsible, Terraform, Docker, Packer, Amazon Web Services, Prometheus, Postgres, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Python, Linux-- Client: Siftery :: 2016 - 2020Responsible for all of Siftery's AWS based infrastructureTechnology / ToolsChef, Terraform, Docker, Packer, Amazon Web Services, Postgres, Redis, Ruby on Rails, Linux-- Client: WideAngle :: 2014, 2016Responsible for all AWS based infrastructureTechnology / ToolsRuby on Rails, AngularJS, Postgres, Amazon Web Services, Chef-- Client: Outbrain :: 2011-2014Primarily responsible for automating, growing and maintaining the Amazon Web Services based infrastructure for Outbrain’s Select product. Also served as a member of the engineering team taking part in special projects and ongoing product development.Technology / ToolsAWS, Chef, Java, SQL, MySQL, Ruby, Linux, Bash, Nginx, Jetty, OpenVPN, HAProxy, Graphite, StatsD, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Jenkins, Nagios, RabbitMQ, Git, RoR

Boston, Ma, Us

Member of the GE Cloud Agnostic Services team responsible for developing and supporting cloud infrastructure offerings across all GE business units. • Designed and built Ruby libraries providing interfaces to Amazon ECS and Docker Remote APIs for the purposes of container orchestration• Worked on a RoR application providing a UI and API for an internal cross cloud Docker PaaS• Built a service framework with Chef for delivering Sensu monitoring to internal businesses• Improved security by developing automated and on demand patching via Chef• Drove transition to fully tested Chef artifacts utilizing Test Kitchen and Chefspec• Utilized Chef and Jenkins to build fully automated continuous delivery pipeline for Chef cookbooksTechnology / ToolsChef, Ruby, Rails, AWS, Docker, Swarm, Compose, Sensu, Jenkins, Java

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Founding member of Vertical Acuity responsible for technology direction and development• Grew the company and product from the ground up through several evolutions• Successfully scaled architecture from ground up to millions of requests per day• Led transition from traditional hosting to Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure• Designed and implemented Hive based data warehouse• Designed and built front end JavaScript client and API responsible for client site integrationTechnology / ToolsJava, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, Lucene, Nutch, Maven, Spring, Linux, Bash, Apache, JBoss, Nginx, Jetty, EC2, AWS, Hive, Ruby, Dynamo, Voldemort

Participated in an evaluation of current technology and engineering team which was used as input to a decision by the board of directors to cease operations

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Technical lead and client point of contact for a large international team of developers building an online interactive site for a Fortune 100 company

Chief Architect (10/2005 - 7/2006)• Responsible for architectural direction of all of the Proficient's product offerings• Led an effort to evaluate, design and implement a replacement for the Proficient Sales Server chat server. The chosen solution provided transparent deployment, reduced bandwidth utilization and guaranteed messaging. The messaging solution was provided by implementing a JavaScript extension to the JMS API utilizing Ajax for the communication channelDirector, Engineering (10/2003 - 10/2005)• Led and managed a team of up to 10 engineers (Software, QA, Configuration) responsible for the development of Proficient's primary product• Utilized Agile project management techniques to deliver two major product releases as well as regularly scheduled maintenance releasesSoftware Engineer (3/2001 - 10/2003) • Founding member of the Proficient engineering team responsible for the initial build and continuing development of Proficient's primary product offering• Primary engineer responsible for the design and development of the central switching application that matched website visitors to available agentsTechnology / ToolsJava, Servlets, JSP, RMI, JMS, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, ANT, SVN, Perl, Bash, Tomcat, Apache, Linux, Staffing, Agile Project Management

Software engineer working on both the front end eTour web product as well as on the architecture team responsible for migration to a Java technology stackTechnology / ToolsJava, EJB, Servlets, JMS, ASP, VP, JavaScript, Oracle

Dublin 2, Ie

Consultant providing technical solutions to many large national clientsTechnology / ToolsJava, C, C++, Unix, Oracle, Sybase