Automation and continuous integration engineering

Puppet expert for Xfinity Home Automation team. - Migrate XH systems from 2.6 puppet environment to 3.1 - Educate team on puppet capabilities and possibilitiesPrimary owner of kafka/zookeeper systems for cross-application communication

Operations lead, infrastructure engineer & specialist.Automation-focused systems administration using puppet to handle a production environment living in Amazon EC2· Scrum Master for DevOps team building DNSSEC capabilities into all UltraDNS products· Operations lead for AXFR & DNSSEC Signer infrastructure products. Led initiative to move both products from physical data centers to AWS cloud as well as implement configuration management using Puppet.· Designed and built Monit and Nagios-based monitoring infrastructure, configured entirely with Puppet, for systems outside Neustar’s datacenters that integrates with existing monitoring and alerting over a syslog bridge.· Created validation and rsync script to push Puppet manifests and modules from a central location out to four geographically diverse Puppet Master hosts.· Instrumented collectd/Graphite metric gathering and implemented Graphite product dashboards for all products under my purview.· Participated in oncall rotation supporting UltraDNS production infrastructure

Basic systems administration tasks

MapQuest automation, administration and analysis

Linux infrastructure administration & planning

QA & Documentation of internal tools

Worked in Systems Architecture department performing feasibility testing of new hardware and software for use in daily operations of Winstar.