SRE/DevOps team lead

Led a DevOps team to support software delivery and site reliability across 6 growing products including Untappd.comNotable Accomplishments ● Managed the post merger acquisition infrastructure migration for two acquisitions. ● Developed and implemented company-wide standards for software test, deployment, monitoring and security, based on Kubernetes, AWS, Cloudflare, New Relic and Github. ● Supported infrastructure and developer needs for a team of 20 engineers and millions of monthly active users on Untappd.com and Untappd for Business.

Worked on a Development Operations team to support and encourage DevOps cultureand methodologies for a rapidly growing educational software platform.● Architected hosted education platform for businesses and universities that resulted in millions in sustainable bookings for EdX.● Designed and implemented tools used by developers to deliver software to users quickly, including continuous deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code frameworks, and monitoring and alerting best practices.● Effectively scaled a microservice platform to serve a global audience with millions of active users, by leveraging Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare CDN.

Managed systems orchestration and AWS hosted, dynamically scalable infrastructure supporting a platform for hundreds of hosted customer support communities with over 10 million daily visitors.

Managed a global operations team in designing, building and maintaining High Performance Computing Clusters (SGE, GPFS.) Maintained thousands of physical servers, SAN, and a virtualized internal elastic cloud environment (KVM) to support automatic speech recognition researchers and developers.

Led operations team in depoying and supporting Nokia's data analytics platform (Hadoop) and high performance databases (Coherence, MySQL.)

Manage day-to-day IT, technology purchasing, and technical operations for customer facing SaaS platform.

Maintained approx. 50 production e-commerce sites running on dedicated RedHat Linux servers, including server hardware, middleware and infrastructure.

Developed custom hand-held applications for the City and State of New York running on PalmOS, Windows CE, and Windows XP Tablet.

Founder of web application and hosting services company. Hands free hosting model that allowed clients to run websites and applications on leased servers.

Developed automated regression and unit tests for MTV Interactive web properties, including mtv.com, nickelodeon.com and others. Assisted in high profile web deployments.

Developed and maintained a web based search index for a large peer to peer network on LAMP stack.