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San Diego, CA, US

• Wrote, troubleshot, & maintained sophisticated Azure infrastructure using prebuilt, internally-maintained Terraform Modules. Modules included Azure Kubernetes, Service Bus, Log Analytics, Azure Container Registry, Cost.
• Utilized Terraform-bootstrapped ArgoCD instance within AKS cluster to deploy Helm chart for application
• Configured Horizontal Pod Autoscalers based on production traffic patterns to minimize cost and efficiently utilize resources in-cluster
• Spearheaded a 6-month project to migrate complex Argo Workflows & Argo Events Batch Processing system from one data center to another, allowing automated billing of client batch requests
• Reverse engineered existing architecture of nested Helm charts for replication & created detailed documentation using MermaidJS for architecture and ongoing support
• Transitioned ownership of the system to another team while training & mentoring team leads to become SMEs

San Diego, CA, US

• Developed Terraform Module monorepo for rapid deployment of AWS resources
• Developed Terraform to deploy AWS resources for platform deployment including: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Peering Connections, Routes, ec2 instances
• Used Terraform to create Chef configuration for provisioning & bootstrapping of ec2 instances
• Utilized on-prem Terraform Enterprise to coordinate build & development of Terraform resources with team members
• Collaborated with team members using Bitbucket/Git to coordinate work in branches and pull requests utilizing infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Participated in Sprint based development workflow using Jira tickets to organize work (epics, stories, tasks, etc.)

San Diego, CA, US

• Administered on-premise Docker Swarm clusters to manage services & container deployments
• Wrote a web app in Golang which authenticated to Jira, parsed tickets from REST API and formatted resultant text required for SaaS deployments; app was built and compiled into a Docker container
• Wrote a command line utility in Golang to simplify ssh key installations to an ftp server
• Developed Terraform to deploy 3 node Docker Swarm cluster in VMWare using Chef to bootstrap nodes
• Used Jira ticketing to track ticket queues and work to be done
• Partially automated DB statistics report by using Python to concatenate multiple csv files decreasing time to generate the report by 85% (from 4 hours spent to 30 min spent)

San Diego, CA, US

• Worked on Operations team for a global Software-as-a-Service platform providing financial services to enterprise clients.
• Automated routine tasks using Ansible, Powershell and Bash when appropriate.
• Wrote a command line utility in Go to simplify ssh key installations to an ftp server.
• Worked with devops to develop Terraform scripting to deploy 3 node Docker Swarm cluster utilizing VMWare, DNS, AWS S3, remote- and local-exec providers.
• Executed and followed up on existing Incident Management process to enroll involved teams and notify relevant parties
• Used Jira ticketing to track ticket queues and work to be done

Poway, California, US

Poway, California, US

• Provided outsourced IT service, support, security and leadership for small and medium-sized businesses in the greater San Diego area. Managed entire IT environments for more than 65 companies, ranging from 10- 250 staff.
• Led team of 10 for managed service provider with small to medium sized Biotech and medical clients.
• Responsible for leading larger change control projects related to network administration.
• Administrated clients network, managed servers, utilized Windows PowerShell command line.
• Oversaw and created/managed automated attendants and recordings with automated script.
• On-boarded new users accurately and reduced processing time from eight hours down to 10 minutes.

San Diego, CA, US

• Responsible for defining and executing the plans for the development of the technology and process requisites to meet current and future product requirements, implement this technology in approved product development.
• Managed and supported a Cisco Network; certified in Cisco CCNA, CCNA Voice, and CCENT.
• Maintained above average uptime on network resolving issues in less than 1 day.
• Maintained maximum activity and network functionality and investigated quality issues.

San Diego, CA, US

Sre

Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Interdisciplinary Computing And The Arts - Music