David D. Email & Phone Number

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

I inherited a property and I had to clean it out and renovate it and then rent it out.By September of 2023 I had renters in the property.My duties over time include paying bills and managing services/legal obligations for the property as well as attending to occasional renter needs.

Denver, Colorado, United States

I was hired to lead the SOC2 audit procee for Kudoboard which passed with flying colors and to migrate the company from Digital Ocean to AWS. I helped the company identify all the great things they do and turn them into processes and automation. I worked with the CTO and CEO to got to experience a lot of things that a devops engineer would not normally get to do. This was such a great experience to help a startup move from a blood, sweat and tears phase to operations and governance.

Denver, Colorado, United States

At Alfi, I created their QA and production environments. I saved them tens of thousands of dollars a month in operations costs.I made their build script a standard across all repos.I added build failure notifications, a release tracking system, an integration with the QA test repo, and a pull request notification capability to the CI/CD system.I created a deploy process and infrastructure for an ML application hosted in ECS using cloudformation.I created dashboards and alarms in CloudWatch to monitor their production systems.I documented the environment creation process and release process.

Menlo Park, California, United States

In this position I have been responsible for researching how to monetize our infrastructure and bring the company's SaaS offering to market quickly and reliably.Promethium is using and researching the latest AWS technologies like the CloudFormation registry, modules, private resources and the cli. How those resources are delivered and managed using AWS Config, Control Tower, Service Catalog, and Marketplace and Professional Services are all a part of it.

Denver, Colorado

In this position I was responsible for the dev, master and prod aws accounts for the company. My duties extended from operations to billing to the SDLC. I saved them thousands of dollars per month in operations costs.I brought a lights out IT approach with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure as code, serverless architecture model and containerization.This was an opportunity to hire and train an entry level devops engineer as well which was great fun.

Denver, Colorado

In this role I was responsible for providing and supporting the CI/CD pipeline, environments as well as being responsible for ops work including backups, disaster recovery, security, monitoring and off-hours support. Main tools of the trade are CloudFormation, CodeBuild, docker, fargate, s3 websites, and python boto3.I learned about many different crypto currencies that utilize blockchain technology and implemented an automated deployment system for them using CloudFormation and cfn-init. Begs the question, "What? No kubernetes?" I had some things to learn about the applications and it took a while to convert from a totally manual system. cfn-init was phase I. ;)

My work with DG is primarily involving their research and development groups. I've worked to integrate their dev teams more closely with their counterparts in IT, provided automation and documentation, lead the team in refactoring their release process and provided support on many levels.In terms of automation, I created a build calendar that updates itself and tracks deployments to our environments. I wrote a script that queries Rally, jenkins and GIT to pull together a bill of materials for each release. I wrote a program that queries multiple servers for rpm software version and deploy version information and tracks it in a database. The data is then presented in html and end users can click any server to get a comparison to the other servers. I wrote a script to message all code deploys to the team chat server.In terms of engaging other teams and building DevOps relationships with them I did a lot of out reach work with IT. I engaged the monitoring team to build a self-service dashboard for the dev/test environments our teams could use and edit.I was chosed to represent the R&D group in a company wide DevOps initiative. From there I worked on initiatives to define the standards for pre-production software vs. in production software and a process to evaluate the R&D applications in terms of production readiness. I worked with the backup teams to ensure that all systems were monitored and backed up.I worked with a research team to push their first application they had produced to production. I documented their application and did the leg work to reach out to the production support teams and gather requirements for the release.I was also responsible for every day scm work including pushing code to the environments, maintaining the builds and doing production deployments.I fixed, refactored and documented their builds in jenkins.I migrated their code from Subversion to GIT. I built a confluence server in a Linux environment and documented that install.

Greater Denver Area

I worked on a ColdFusion, Windows 2000, Java stack. I created a python flask website that compiled information from all the (physical) pre-prod servers (Java, IIS and ColdFusion) and this allowed QA to have a view into the environments and see what state they were in without having to login to random servers and check different subsystems.

Centennial, Colorado

Initially, I used Python to help automate build and deploy tasks as well as change control management. I built a reporting web site using AJAX that monitors the latest 6 months of releases, their status and the files associated with them. I became the Perforce server administrator for a couple of years. I compiled assemblies for release and packaged them for deployment. One of my duties was compiling 3rd party assemblies from source so I have some experience with SVN and NAnt as well. Then our team virtualized our development environments and exposed the Lab Manager APIs through a script orchestration engine called Electric Commander so that we were able to coordinate the spin up of environments with the compile of objects and their deployment in a multi-server workflow that was customizable by each dev team and run by the teams to create their own test and development environments.

Bangkok, Thailand

Responsibilities included writing a monthly newsletter and articles related to web hosting, as well as writing general site content for HostSearch.com and HostBizTools.com, editing and writing news articles on new technology, Internet security and business trends regarding the hosting industry, conducting interviews of web hosting CEOs, writing and distributing press releases, working with the development and marketing staff to create new products, and corresponding with other web site and business owners and users of HostSearch.com. I managed the data verification staff as well.

Mahasarakham, Thailand

Taught English, and Computers in the school’s English immersion program for 7th grade. Taught Internet English outside of the program to sophomore students. Solely developed the curriculum for the English and Computer courses and chose the books for the school’s program. Also tutored the science and math teachers in English and helped many students write essays for scholarships and study abroad programs which helped several students to win scholarships travel to Japan, and Australia.

Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities included maintaining the development environment, tracking, documenting and communicating software and configuration changes, as well as packaging releases, assisting in the troubleshooting of the QA and live environments during releases and managing the update of the different branches of code in the development lifecycle. For the last 6 months of my tenure I was primarily responsible for the packaging and release of all releases. Accomplishments include; taking a dll compilation script and turning it into an installation script that pulled all code from our version control tool and installed all code and registry entries onto the eCollege development web servers, creating a simple knowledge base using ASP and SQL, and documenting the configuration of the servers and the install process. I worked with ASP, VB script, SQL, Java script, Windows Scripting Host, HTML, Microsoft 2000 server, MS Visual Studio, VSS, and Microsoft Office during my stay at eCollege with my focus being primarily on VSS, IIS, and Windows 2000 server.