Ed Silva Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Technical Lead of the Platform Engineering Development team.Evangelize benefits and best practices, using IaC, among many teams in development and operations.Support and mentors less experienced team members and colleagues.Pursue and practice collaborative development with other teams, providing guidance and developing solutions to new requirements.Contribute to multiple initiatives to support organization wide initiatives.Developed the Reference Model for our IaC as a working example and strategic guide to effectively consuming the platform's features.Developed migration methods and support documentation materials to help teams adopt our internal platform.Established and practiced the collaborative development model that the team uses with other development teams who are consumers of the platform.Provide technical leadership both within the platform team, as well as with development engineers and system architects across the enterprise.Offer principled, candid feedback on technologies, system designs, and operating practices.Using Terraform and Salt Stack solutions for enhanced resilience and reliability. Automation of AWS failover and provisioning. Development of tools for operations and developers.Directly involved in the design and implementation of the infrastructure as code platform used across Everbridge, providing engineering teams with the ability to create and own their own infrastructure while meeting the security and compliance requirements needed for FedRAMP certification.Created a tooling for managing Salt Project secure pillar data, written in Go. Made officially open source by Everbridge and available at https://github.com/Everbridge/generate-secure-pillar.I have also contributed to a number of Open Source tools used at Everbridge, to provided enhancements we have found useful, and give back to the wider community.https://github.com/edlitmus

Helped create an alerting platform based on Grafana/Graphite capable of alerting on any metric defined in a graph.Automated builds and deployments, leading to the adoption of continuous deployment in the Automation Engineering group.Created tools to manage load balancers, allowing for the dynamic creation of VIPs and automated population of service groups, across colos.Worked on internal tools and systems that automate and manage many thousands of systems world wide, allowing SREs to provision physical and virtual hosts.Created tools for developers to leverage docker to run management tools on their development systems.Contributed to open source projects used internally, providing pull requests to upstream projects.Added support for RRDs into graphite-api fork, used internally at OpenX.Worked closely with Release Engineering to help teams leverage automation in their build and deployment pipelines, adding monitoring and alerting to the process, as well as helping to identify key performance metrics.

New York City, Ny, Us

Architect for NBC.com Social projects and Team leader for several high profile projects.Created the backend service architecture for a new publishing system powering NBC.com show site pages.Lead a small, focused team of developers to build many crucial backend systems, including the above mentioned publishing system.Developed schema and backend systems powering the NBC.com home page.Re-implemented login system to reduce login time from 1.5 seconds to 200ms.Re-architected NBC.com Social project, reducing the code base by 30% while increasing performance up to 46%.Responsible for NBC.com site security, including audits and coordinating communication with corporate security.

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Added support for RSS 2.0 enclosures and MRSS 2.0 to generated RSS feeds to internal publishing tools. This allowed content producers to easily add multi-media content to the RSS feeds.Implemented client-side and server-side targeted advertising system for search and content.Created video site maps used by Google and Bing to index video content.Refactored internal search engine data population to greatly improve search results.Added search page capabilities to include enhanced filtering.Created several REST services to provide data feeds used by multiple applications, including a new episode guide.Created vote ingestion and reporting system for live sponsored internet voting events.

Created a proactive monitoring system for wireless radio units to react to signal quality problems and configuration errors, reducing calls to technical support and increasing customer satisfaction with wireless services.Streamlined the VOIP signup process, allowing customers to fill out a form online which automatically emailed necessary forms and created tickets for sales to do a follow up with the customer.Added dynamic plotting of radio signal spread and frequency usage for wireless access points, allowing network engineers to visually see signal overlaps on a tower, greatly improving deployment of new radios.Created SOAP APIs to allow clients to integrate the predictive dialer features of a hosted PBX product.

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Streamlined communications with support and sales by providing a clear communications path to engineering.Worked with clients to resolve technical issues and to help clients integrate products.

Created software to extend and add to the capabilities of the Titilewave website.Introduced MVC (Model-View-Controller) paradigm to the development team, allowing for greater flexibility in interface design and improving developer efficiency.Introduced the use of the perl Template Toolkit to abstract out user interface code from business logic.Wrote and tested scripts used to modify Oracle database schema without any change to the functionality of the site. Refactored much of the existing code base to make transition to new database schema trouble-free.Rewrote data import scripts to allow for greater scalability by lowering processing time.

Created software to manage passwords for the company login system with a strict password policy checking system.Created software applications to generate customized sales summary, projection and trending reports.Completed SSL/TLS versions of application programming interfaces, allowing client software to communicate securely with Jettis’ proprietary systems.

Created perl scripts to migrate data from MySQL to Oracle database.Ported the existing perl code base from MySQL to Oracle database.Developed tools in perl for use in migration efforts.Wrote a custom jail in C for use with securing application installations.

Created OO Perl modules to access an Oracle database.Re-implemented wireless feeds for maximum performance while ensuring all feeds were valid XML.Developed C libraries for use with Perl modules using XS.Created database tools and testing scripts with a team of developers.Extensive use of mod_perl, Template Toolkit and Apache::DBI.

Wrote a multithread daemon to control administration tasks for the web server cluster and application servers.Wrote a custom OO perl API for client applications to interface with an administration daemon.Developed software for use with an administration daemon to control internal systems, such as NIS+, NFS, user email accounts, FTP access, shell access and disk quotas.Created a multithreaded whois daemon based on Internet RFC 954 and RFC 1834.

Created applications with a team of developers to read and write various radar and IR sensor data formats for use with online data analysis tools. Included the ability to plot all sensor data and to compare any data to any other data in a set. Plots could be saved in any of eleven different graphics file formats. Written in C and perl.