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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lead team of site reliability engineers to migrate infrastructure across regions (US to EU) in AWS with minimal downtime- Over 250 docker services, 6 database clusters, several terabytes of storage in S3 and EBS, with less than 4.5hrs of maintenance.- Performance improvements (over 150ms of latency improvements) , cost reductions, and software upgradesCut cloud computing costs by over 20%

Greater Boston Area

Built a team of site reliability engineers who worked on several new product initiatives while ensuring 5 9’s (99.999%) of availability and uptime using multi availability zone failover architecture.

Boston, Massachusetts

Migrated infrastructure from EC2 (Ansible/AMI) to ECS (Docker) deploymentsMigrated Poloniex Exchange platform from datacenter in the midwest to AWS (Virginia region) with minimal downtime and improved performance, resiliency, and latency of exchange platform- Datacenter used physical servers with virtualization, moved to a 100% containerized environment in AWS using ECS to orchestrate.Provided a python/docker based ColdStorage solution to offline customer funds- 9 different cryptocurrencies supported, using air gapped laptops in multiple vault locations around the world to protect several hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer assets.Automated robust and resilient hourly and daily clone process for Aurora clusters using step-functions and lambdasRobust and secure cross-account-cross-region connectivity- Micro-service architecture across multiple AWS accounts in multiple regions

Lexington, Ma

Systems Engineering* Optimized environment to provide a more resilient and secure infrastructure* Replaced single availability zone configuration with a Multi-AZ solution* Provided secure VPC configuration using public and private subnets, and IAM instance profiles* Migrated monitoring from legacy Zabbix installation to Nagios* Migrated Postgres database to RDS* Provided backup solution for DynamoDB* Implemented ASGs and SSH-less provisioning using cloud-init* Automated production Docker deployments* Built Cassandra and Kafka clusters with self healing capabilitiesTechnical Lead* SOC2 Type I Audit* Ensured HIPAA compliance architecture and procedures

Burlington, Ma

* Automated infrastructure consisting of over 2000 servers spanning two datacenters using Puppet* Configured OpenStack environment for development* Deployed Jenkins for continuous integration testing

Greater Boston Area

Systems Engineering* Automate and improve operational monitoring and tools.Operations* 24x7 Linux Systems Operations.* Monitor availability and performance of over 3000 LAMP servers.* Develop and improve automation tools for deploying and managing services within the cloud.Supported Clients* Warner Music Group, Pfizer, Twitter, Apple, Aljazeera, RedHat, Intel, and others* Some of the most visited .gov websites on the internet

Manage & Maintain ForgetHangovers.com, Store.ForgetHangovers.com, Gallery.ForgetHangovers.como Ecommerce store using Magento – PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, XMLo Open Source Gallery (gallery.menalto.com) - PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Small business systems administration and technical support. (Ubuntu server with multiple XP clients, linux based tomato router)• Backups using Samba, rsync, bash scripts.• Webmaster for A2ndChanceBailBonds.com, as well as inter-office website using:o phpTimeClock for employee trackingo Gallery for storage of client (defendant) photoso Developed Adobe Acrobat forms with javascript to track employee’s data entry via a backend MySQL DB.

Small business systems administration and technical support. (all XP clients, linux based tomato router) Manage Hosted (MailStreet) Exchange accounts.

Real Estate Sales Person

• Developed Perl web scraping scripts to collect public record data• Data then is held in a MySQL DB, and served out using XML,HTML,PHP,Java,Ajax & Adobe Flex

Data EntrySoftware Macro DevelopmentReceptionist

Helped manage NT Server with multiple Windows 95 clients. Developed inventory tracking software using MS Access and Visual Basic.

Built, Repaired, and Upgraded PC's.

Computer Science

Computer Science

Programming Courses taken while still in Highschool: • Programming in Basic • Advanced Programming in Basic Overall Cumulative GPA: 4.0

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