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United States

• Drupal Administrator and DevOps Lead on a multi-year, full-scale redesign and modernization project on a team of 30 people for a federal agency
• Maintaining excellent uptime with a biweekly release schedule for a high-visibility website annually supporting ~318,000 researchers, entrepreneurs, students and teachers.
• Successfully planned for an unusually high traffic spike by tuning and enhancing the infrastructure for the media event release of the Sagittarius-A black hole image in 2022.
• Regularly review security scan reports and logs to assess risk and perform updates; implement measures to mitigate risk. Incident response for prod and non-prod environments, communicate with the team and client.
• Migrated our development environment migration from GitLab to Bitbucket. Introduced new automated testing tools and obtained approval from the engineering review board through meetings and presentations.
• Set up Renovate bot to check Drupal module dependencies and create automatic pull requests.

United States

• Front-end and back-end development and bug fixes across projects.
• Established infrastructure as code using Ansible for a project, which has over 1 million content artifacts with 100k+ users in 110 countries, hosted on AWS EC2 instances.
• Set up a new GitLab server and migrated from SVN to Git for all the existing projects at the time (2014).
• Set up Docker sandboxes for the development team for several distinct projects, and coached coworkers on using and modifying the system.
• Self-taught in Go so that I could build the “bowline” docker utility, which exposes commands inside containers for developer sandboxes.
• Migrated over 500 thousand records in three different projects, including duplicate record removal.

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