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Phoenix, Az, Us

Denver, Co, Us

San Jose, California, Us

- Architected and launched a complete solution for provisioning hardware from the operating system to user applications in air-gapped and edge environments.- Contributed to Kaios (https://kairos.io), an immutable Linux distribution with automated provisioning of highly available Kubernetes clusters.

Nürnberg, De

- Developed the 2nd generation of log aggregation in Rancher and continued to guide and maintain the project based on community feedback.- Led the Rancher release process, coordinating multiple engineering teams as the release captain.- Developed a Kubernetes operator to automatically provision nodes running a container-based OS for managing edge workloads.- Created the Engineering Improvements Group to help improve the developer experience and accelerate feature delivery.- Created Corral, a CLI tool for creating reproducible environments in CI, local development and across teams.- Benchmarked the core framework of Rancher to identify excessive CPU consumption and memory allocation.

Nürnberg, De

- Developed the 2nd generation of log aggregation in rancher and continued to guide and maintain the project based on community feedback.- Led multiple rancher releases as a release captain.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

- Led a project that integrated a third-party analytics platform from pilot to production.- Directly contributed to the infrastructure team to overhaul existing CI/CD processes.

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Us

- Developed a series of services for extracting entities from text, categorizing them, and creating a network between related entities.- Entrusted by the team to create several services that streamed, filtered, and enhanced thousands of documents per second for a wide array of clients simultaneously.- Collaborated with a team to create a scalable storage service capable of storing thousands of documents per second while minimizing infrastructure costs.- Developed a plugin-based framework for rapidly building performant and easily maintainable applications on top of existing services.Implemented a new reporting service that provided detailed metrics of user activity.- Optimized imports, re-organized existing code, and made performance enhancements to critical systems.- Documented architecture and created instructions for implementing new features on an existing application.

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Us

- Implemented a new reporting service that provided detailed metrics of user activity- Optimized imports, re-organized existing code, and made performance enhancements to critical systems- Documented architecture and created instructions for implementing new features on an existing application

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Us

- Addressed shortcomings with an existing product backend.- Developed a web application for displaying photos from an aerial drone.