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Hamilton, On, Ca

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, report on status, and analyze root causes.• 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.• Created a readily deployable visual regression reference environment for front-end developers for automated testing. This pipeline provides two jobs for developers: they can build the site at any time, and compile the required artifacts for the visual tests.• For our zero downtime deployment initiative, implemented a database read-only mode. Facilitated the addition of CloudFront CDN. Created a Drupal module to switch databases during rolling release deployments. This module applies the new configuration to a new database without causing interruption to running pods serving the website, and pods automatically switch to the new database after release.• Provide support for Sandbox, Git, Jenkins, Docker, and other tools for the dev team of about 15 engineers.Developed an internal "status" API endpoint to replace manual steps for validations, automatically verifying internal connections, versions, and health checks.

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.• Full-stack developer on projects: coded custom modules, styled pages and forms, developed automated tests, automated deployment processes, and maintained hosting infrastructure configuration.

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