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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Engineer on the Site Infrastructure team.• Led the design and expansion of BuzzFeed’s security bounty program and engineering rotations resulting in the discovery and mitigation of major security issues.• Core contributor to the migration of BuzzFeed's legacy Perl monolith to a modern infrastructure stack (containerized Python services). Significantly reduced years of technical debt while improving operability and observability.• Led a team that implemented a new user-facing authentication system. Provided a more secure and flexible solution for internal and external applications.

New York, Ny, Us

Led and managed a small team working on developer tools.• Automated building and distribution of binary packages, codified standards and tooling, and captured these processes in configuration management (Ansible and Chef).• Rebuilt and refactored core test suites to improve speed of and confidence in deploys.• Oversaw the virtualization and automation of of engineer development environments.• Helped build services and fronting web UI to power legacy deployments with Ansible.

New York, Ny, Us

Joined BuzzFeed engineering when it numbered less than ten people.• Automated the creation and upkeep of local development environments with Ansible, Perl, and Bash scripts.• Automated the testing and deployment for the main buzzfeed.com website using Jenkins, Chef, and Ansible.• Oversaw releases and ensured test consistency for the full backend and frontend test suite for buzzfeed.com.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Worked in the Services group with enterprise clients such as MLB, Advance Digital, Washington Post, and Talking Points Memo to build and scale high availability media websites.• Performed launch and capacity planning, load testing, data and platform migrations, and analysis and mitigation for high traffic events.• Technologies and tools used included Linux, Sphinx, lightttpd, nginx, Apache, DNS, Movable Type, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Ruby, Python, and shell programming.• Built internal tools and processes using git and GitHub.

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