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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Designed and implemented the entire QA infrastructure from scratch, including centralized systemsfor metrics and command receptionUtilized Terraform, AWS VPCs, and AWS ECS to create a scalable, ephemeral testing environmenttailored for various network conditions and traffic routing scenariosIntegrated Datadog for real-time monitoring and Elasticsearch for log ingestionAdvised the company owner on agile development methodologies and best practices, serving as thekey operations consultantCreated documentation and provided training to company staff on use and maintenance of infrastructure

Maintained, designed, and deployed data pipelines from ingest to delivery via TerraformMonitored data pipelines via Datadog and created dashboards clearly outlining SLIs and failure pointsConfigured Pagerduty services and escalation rules for different productsAdministered both QA and production AWS accounts including IAM access and resource creationMaintained AWS costs within budget while expanding account usage to other teams and deploying new pipelines Diagnosed critical Cassandra cluster failure with obscure bug and wrote scripts to restore functionalityMigrated Terraform codebase from version 9 to 11Engineered replacement file ingest system with reduced complexity, smaller overhead, and increased reliabilityRebuilt terabyte FTP-to-S3 ingest system using ASGs and T3 instances, resulting in increased reliability and cost savingsDeployed Kubeflow Kubernetes cluster to EKS utilizing Cognito via Terraform and HelmMaintained and optimized complex data workflows using Apache Airflow, ensuring efficient scheduling, execution, and reliability of data processing jobs.

Maintained and deployed over 300 CentOS virtual machines Patched critical vulnerabilities and scheduled maintenance windowsCreated custom Nessus scans to identify and correct infrastructure security issuesWrote Nagios server checks to detect issues before they could drastically affect systemsDeployed and maintained freeIPA centralized authentication (SSSD, Kerbreros, LDAP, DNS, and Cert Authority)Configured data ingest to graphite via collectd and custom scripts for use with Grafana and InfluxDBDeveloped a non-attributable intelligence gathering system (hardened OpenVPN Docker containers with Radius auth), isolated monitoring and proxy components

Sioux City, Iowa, Us

Analyzed unverified binaries detected by PC Pitstop’s “Super Shield” proprietary whitelisting endpoint solutionIdentified and assessed maliciousness of Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs)Evaluated vendor reputation and trustworthiness of signed executablesAnalyzed sample execution using multiple sandboxing technologiesDeveloped methodologies for classifying unknown binariesDevised malware rule set that resulted in over 30,000 monthly classifications (~5 analyst workloads/mo)

Conway, Sc, Us

I provided IT support for Wheelwright building office computers in addition to my standard duties. I was tasked with configuring, deploying, and supporting the athletics mobile ticketing system.

Managed day-to-day activities including appointments, purchases, and deliveriesResponsible for customer satisfaction and interaction Tracked finances and purchasesRotated and cleaned equipmentDeveloped novel additions to enhance current products

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Chemistry

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry