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Santa Monica, California, Us

Providing technical leadership and automated repeatable solutions for an industry leading high volume video security provider.• Manager for Splunk platform across Ring and other Amazon business units. Managing multiple clusters approaching a petabyte in daily ingest. Responsible for automating cluster buildout and new data ingests, platform stability, and planning within the larger organization.* Managing a diverse team of System Engineers, Data Engineers, Splunk SME, and Software Developers• DevOps mentor for Data Management team, including support for data warehouses, Kubernetes clusters, Airflow clusters, Kafka pipelines, ELK stacks, and software services.• Responsible for Infrastructure as Code, CI / CD, and other tooling within the Ring and the larger Amazon organization.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Providing technical leadership and automated repeatable solutions for an industry leading high volume video security provider.• Lead for Splunk platform across Ring and other Amazon business units. Managing multiple clusters approaching a petabyte in daily ingest. Responsible for automating cluster buildout and new data ingests, platform stability, and planning within the larger organization.• DevOps resource for Data Management team, including support for data warehouses, Kubernetes clusters, Airflow clusters, Kafka pipelines, ELK stacks, and software services.• Responsible for Infrastructure as Code, CI / CD, and other tooling within the Ring and the larger Amazon organization.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Heading Technical Operations for an industry leading marketing analytics platform. * Providing platform support and monitoring engineering for dozens of data pipelines working 24x7 to yield customer conversion insights.* Chief architect of Kubernetes clusters for ad hoc data pipeline jobs and other supporting DevOps tooling - using both "kops" and Amazon EKS for cluster management, kube2iam and aws-iam-authenticator for tight integration with AWS.* Responsible for Infrastructure and Corporate Security responsibilities - provided key input into crafting GDPR compliance program; and providing primary responses for RFP's in regards to InfoSec policy and PII management. Crafted InfoSec program including endpoint security, vulnerability scanning, security awareness training program, web application firewall, SAML SSO, and other security concerns.* Configured Hashicorp tools to organize TechOps and DevOps initiatives - Packer for AMI image building; Terraform for configuration managed AWS infrastructure; Vault for centralized secrets management.* Engineering CI / CD solutions to ensure timely and graceful deployments of data pipelines and platform software. Responsible for integrating Atlassian solutions (BitBucket, JIRA, Bamboo); Docker and Helm for container management and deployment to Kubernetes; Sonatype Nexus Repository for central managed Docker, PyPi, Maven, and NPM code repositories; Snyk for automated dependency vulnerability scanning in DevSecOps fashion.* Responsible for maintaining a balanced mix of spend and computing resources to meet customer SLA's, with a blend of reserved and spot instances.* Directing consultants and offsite engineers on DevOps, TechOps, and other software engineering projects. Collaborating with onsite Software Engineers and Data Scientists to ensure a robust platform.

Aliso Viejo, California, Us

Managing Technical, Data and Developer Operations work for an industry leading Single Sign-On solutions provider.• Responsible for stability efforts to guarantee 4 9's (99.99%) uptime across a global infrastructure, managing a team of Linux Systems Engineers, DevOps personnel, and DBA's that ensure stability for mission critical single sign-on services. Improved an underperforming historical uptime of 99.9% to 99.99%, including a 12 month stretch with 100% uptime per the OneLogin trust page.• Migrated full stack from managed co-location to AWS, with global load balancing and high availability strategies to maintain uptime despite any loss of Availability Zone or Regions.• Leading efforts to overhaul and adapt deploy processes using blue-green release techniques with AWS auto scaling groups to streamline software rollout and rollback procedures.• Consult with Data and Software Engineering to make technology decisions, shape roadmap outlook, and perform configuration management work for existing and future technology stacks.• Responsible for tracking budget and monitor AWS monthly spend closely to keep cloud operations cost within bounds.

Aliso Viejo, California, Us

Managed Technical Operations work for an industry leading Single Sign-On solutions provider. Responsible for uptime, cloud operations and code deployment.

San Francisco, California, Us

Database and systems automation work for the fourth largest producer of U.S. Internet traffic and a leader in the video streaming space• Systems support for Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, and other emerging data technologies• Key architect in company migration to AWS: benchmarking equivalent AWS services, adapting metrics (mirroring CloudWatch metrics in Graphite), implementing framework solutions with Terraform / Puppet• Led effort to better DR with offsite backups to S3, implementing multi-region / DC data storage of NoSQL and relational databases

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed relational, NoSQL, Big Data solutions and team for a rapidly growing online dating service, with over 50 million users in 60 countries. Promoted from DBA position to lead.• Database support for over 40 MySQL high-availability clusters.• Architect and maintainer of MHA high availability solution• Database support for Cassandra clusters spanning multiple datacenters.• Support for Hadoop cluster running HA NameNode infrastructure on Cloudera software (stack including HBase, HDFS, Hive, Impala)• Manage DBA team and projects - set goals and projects within Engineering sprint schedules• Peer review with system administrators and developers on database design, query tuning, and integration with configuration management systems• Architect and maintainer of custom Python / MySQL backed monitoring services• Extensive experience with Percona tools such as pt-table-checksum, pt-online-schema-change, and pt-query-analyzer

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Responsible for maintaining and managing projects for content management company serving upwards of 600M page views per month and consistently exceeding promised SLA of 99.9%• Maintained a lead role in a rapidly growing environment that ranged from reporting directly to the CTO in a scaled down team to hiring a world-class team of network engineers, systems architects, and security specialists.• Lead architect for MySQL implementation, instituting backup and replication infrastructure, mitigating license costs and providing a solution that could scale to multiple datacenters.DBA responsibilities including peer schema review, profiling using Maatkit / Percona tools (particularly mk-query-digest) and MySQL Enterprise monitor. Oversaw upgrades from MySQL 5.0 to 5.5. Implemented partitioning schemes for transient tracking data. Implemented disk-to-disk-to-tape backup schemes with InnoBackup, Xtrabackup.• Managed expansion of datacenter presence from single point of failure to geographically distinct multiple points of presence. Oversaw a tripling of overall production devices and a migration from generic whitebox Linux servers to IBM Blade Centers and xSeries 64-bit servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.• Centralized operations by implementing LDAP for sitewide user authentication, Cobbler for networked buildout, and Puppet for systems change management. Transformed the time to build a new host from an imprecise, hours long process to one taking minutes, with consistent builds and ongoing system management.• Revamped push process from unwieldy Perl scripts to tight integration with Subversion, load balancer control of servers, and rapid but safe production deployment. Worked closely with software engineering group to hire a suitable code management engineer and developed practices in line with our managed servers.

Maintained production, pre-production, and corporate infrastructure for a major transactional ticketing webcompany.• Led project to migrate server systems from unsuitable office computer closet to officialTicketMaster datacenter in Los Angeles, coordinating efforts to move data from San Franciscowith minimal downtime.• Revamped monitoring systems and supervised communication process with client services, customer support, software engineering, and management to keep service interruptions to aminimum in a transactional environment where every minute of downtime cost money tocustomers and the company.• Planned and architected system migration from C based code running on Faircom database to aJava server infrastructure (JBoss) and Oracle. Trained and took on Oracle DBA duties within atight deadline and developed a nearly realtime backup system despite being denied funding toimplement a true replicated system.• Managed code integration environment (Perforce) and bug tracking. Responsible for gathering QAresources for code releases and troubleshooting onsite client installs.

Provided primary systems support for litigation database system.• Supervised web developers, systems administrators, and helped direct developers on key platformproducts.• Provided primary support to custom legal database system running on Solaris with specializedconsole / dumb terminal access to data entry operators.• Formed exploratory team to migrate from coding legal documents into a specialized database toscanning documents and making database results available online. Responsible for establishingcompany's first web presence.• Coded application to search across an arbitrary set of documents and print search results to paper or PDF for discovery process.• Spearheaded and individually coded project to migrate from old dial-up BBS system forcontractors to a 24x7 extranet site running Apache with custom Perl modules on a Linux system.