Gabriel Stein Email & Phone Number

200 Applied Parkway, University Park, Il, Us

🌍🚴‍♂️ Exploring New Horizons: A 6-Month Bikepacking Journey Across New Zealand and JapanI recently took a break from the professional world to embark on an incredible 6-month bikepacking adventure across the breathtaking landscapes of New Zealand and Japan. This journey was more than just an escape; it was an opportunity for growth, resilience, and deep cultural immersion.In New Zealand, I navigated through stunning coastal trails and rugged mountain paths, experiencing the country's unique biodiversity and warm Kiwi hospitality. In Japan, I cycled through serene countryside, historical temples, and bustling cities, gaining insights into its rich cultural heritage and advanced infrastructure.This experience taught me invaluable lessons in perseverance, adaptability, and the importance of stepping out of my comfort zone. It was a transformative period that reinforced my passion for sustainability, adventure, and continuous learning.I'm excited to bring these refreshed perspectives and newfound energy back into my professional journey. 🚴‍♀️🌏

Seattle, Washington, Us

1. Java Event-Driven Application: Developed event-driven java applications integrating our internal and external event streams, reducing our process latency by roughly 100 ms.2. Crisis Management with Kubernetes: Utilized my understanding of cloud environments and Kubernetes to develop a script to rotate all kube secrets within 24 hours of a security breach.3. PostgreSQL Database Management: Migrated a PostgreSQL database from onprem servers to our new Amazon Aurora database. Used this Opportunity to normalize and update the database.4. Unit Testing: Used Mockito and Ginkgo to devise comprehensive unit testing strategies for Java and Golang applications, ensuring our code test coverage reached 95%.5. Kubernetes Mentorship: Leveraged extensive Kubernetes expertise to mentor a dozen team members, ensuring the seamless adoption and implementation of Kubernetes in various projects. Reduced our over-provisioning of CPU and memory resources, reducing team cost by 25%.

Seattle, Washington, Us

1. Terraform Module Architect: Developed on short notice a tenant registry component to manageand automate the deployment and resource quotas of all Kubernetes namespaces at Nordstrom2. Tech Lead for Terraform Investigation: Investigated the use of Terraform as a solution fordeploying managed EKS clusters, reducing overhead costs and provided feedback within 2 weeks.3. Platform Migration to EKS: Spearheaded the creation and migration of our existing platform toan entirely new system on EKS, providing a platform with zero downtime during high traffic events.4. Cluster Scaling for High Traffic Events: Scaled clusters from 100 to 1000 nodes in productionduring load testing to support Nordstrom’s Anniversary sale.5. Kubernetes Platform Support: Supported and augmented a Kubernetes platform running afleet of 11,000 vCPUs and 43TB of memory, managing 17,000 pods, and 2000 engineers.6. Infrastructure as Code: Wrote Terraform modules to support and ensure the success of all theengineering teams at Nordstrom, providing monitoring and scaling tools for 100% of teams.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Created integration tests for various microservices developed by the Checkout team at NordstromDesigned and implemented a debugging tool to assist in the investigation of orders and/or error patternsIntegrated the tool with the Splunk Python SDK to use as the data source Developed a single page application using Vue.Js to enable viewing service calls related to a shopper IDConstructed an HTTP web server with Python and Flask, which served data collected from the Splunk SDK

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked with the Amazon Smartplug Device teamDeveloped a GUI automation tool using Python and OpenCV to automate the flashing process of new firmware for embedded devices to increase the efficiency of testing Created a command line tool with C to enable a device to be programmed via its serial connection

Seattle, Washington, Us

Developed a cross-platform enterprise tool to analyse the health and status of all the microservices developed by the Checkout Team, which process billions in transactionsConstructed an HTTP web server with Go, which served data collected by a worker to the frontend assetsIntegrated the backend with Amazon Web Services, DataDog, and Pagerduty for data collectionDesigned and implemented a webpage using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to display the data pulled from the backend, and to provide tools to help troubleshooting

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Created a 3D model configurator for a ring product demo using HTML, CSS BootStrap and Clara.ioDesigned and implemented the following polygon modifiers using JavaScript and Three.Js: Bevel, Chamfer, Cut, Extrude, Mirror, Slice, TesselateFixed a Catmull-Clark based subdivision algorithm to support UV maps from imported scenes and added functionality to support new texture typesAdded functionality to existing data structures to increase efficiency in accessing specific vertices, edges and faces

Simulated the dispersion and effective refractive index of an optic fiber using Lumerical Mode SolutionsBuilt and aligned experimental setups for the linear and nonlinear optical characterization of AlGaAs waveguides and performed experiments to determine their propagation loss while collecting data using LabviewWrote Matlab scripts to quantify the propagation and coupling loss of waveguides

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Software Engineering