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San Francisco, CA, US

Oakland, CA, US

• Wrote customized Ansible tasks in Python when needed to significantly simplify Ansible playbooks, make them more readable, and work around an Ansible library bug
• Created a self-bootstrapping Ansible setup and install so that Ansible can be used in company's host imaging process
• Converted from legacy Python2 to Python3 in Ansible callbacks, facts generation, lookup plugins, etc.
• Adapted company's SSH daemon's AuthorizedKeysCommand Python scripts for LDAP authorization to successfully integrate with RedHat
• Successfully proved automation of Virtual Machine creation via RedHat Virtualization (RHV). This also included creating Ansible tasks that integrate with the company's legacy inventory system.
• Currently integrating disparate Ansible tasks and HashiCorp Vault secret integration to deploy new RedHat Virtualization Managers and Hypervisors on demand

SAN Francisco, California, US

• Automated dynamic creation of Jenkins Slave nodes (using Ansible) to facilitate testing with multiple versions of Python at Automatic Labs (a SiriusXM company)
• Created IaC representation of full AWS environment including VPC, networking, IAM, etc. using Terraform
• Instructed Advanced "Git Internals" course for DevOps team at Automatic Labs (a SiriusXM company)
• Led week-long "Exploring Kubernetes course" (Docker basics, KOPS, and EKS/eksctl) for DevOps team at Automatic Labs (a SiriusXM company)
• Instructed 6-week "Lean StartUp" course at Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, winning a 98.5% satisfaction score from students
• Created "Source Control for the DevOps Engineer" course material for UC Davis

Menlo Park, California, US

• Built and managed a highly effective 3-person DevOps team with no previous handoff
• Rebuilt deploy processes to reuse common Ansible roles decreasing deploy development from weeks to hours for each new microservice
• Wrote a DevOps CLI tool with Python and Click that generated initial Terraform and Ansible files, decreasing development time and eliminating the practice of copy-paste programming
• Managed on premise (vSphere) and AWS server infrastructure
• Pushed learning down by empowering team to select and implement SignalFx monitoring solution across microservices

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed and maintained production systems, including a 4-million visitor website, staging and Continuous Integration systems and AWS infrastructure
• Supported other development teams with infrastructure and production access needs
• Built a Blue-Green deploy process, ensuring fast and stable rollbacks, eliminating HTTP 500 errors, and increasing quality of deploys
• Improved release cadence and quality, achieving at least 3 releases per day (vs once weekly) by automating the code deployment process
• Improved developer productivity by getting full test suite results in less than 10 minutes (vs 2 hours) by building a custom Continuous Integration system using scalable AWS Spot instances communicating through SQS
• Wrote and maintained Ansible playbooks to manage AWS cloud-based servers

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Converted SpotCloud.com from Google App Engine (GAE) to stand-alone Django so it could serve as a private cloud solution
• Created an adaptor to translate SpotCloud communication with the xStream product (using Tornado and mongoDB technology)
• Built and led a team of 3 engineers for the SpotCloud product (using Scrum methodologies)
• Gave direct customer support on a multimillion dollar contract for the newly created SpotCloud product

• Wrote a categorization system in Python that increased targeted merchant retrieval accuracy
• Designed and wrote a system for automatic retrieval of merchants from varying external sources/APIs
• Wrote web scraping engine with Python and BeautifulSoup targeting specific restaurant websites
• Wrote Django backend code for Mobile Spinach website
• Performed Production Release Engineer duties when necessary

Berkeley, CA, US

• Ported and refactored existing software to new system, utilizing Python, Django, HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Designed QA/regression tests for new PhyloFacts system
• Wrote easy-to-use software to automate management of development, staging and production environments coordinating webserver, database, and code repository.
• Implemented a daily Python-based system health check that caught and eliminated potential errors before they became problematic
• Reorganized subversion repository, adding the ability to branch and tag
• Improved and refactored PostgreSQL database schema

• Porting existing software to new system, utilizing Python, Django, HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Migrated encyclopedic book data to new PhyloFacts resource using Python
• Improved PostgreSQL database schema by removing dependencies upon stale roles (users)
• Supported day-to-day operations of the PhyloFacts resource by providing Python programming and database administration for the Apache webserver and PostgreSQL database
• Implemented a daily Quality Assurance (QA) health check and backup procedure, written in Python, that caught and eliminated potential errors before they became problematic
• Designed QA/regression tests, with Selenium, for new PhyloFacts system

San Ramon, CA, US

* Designed and developed Python cron-job management and monitoring API* Designed and developed software tools to facilitate fast, robust and testable software release process* Designed and developed software frameworks to support rapid construction and deployment of business logic* Designed and developed software and strategies to provide configuration.

Rolla, MO, US

Undergraduate Bachelors of Science in Computer Science (Cum Laude), a minor in Leadership Communication. Additionally, took graduate courses in Bioinformatics.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Patched customers’ systems in emergency capacity using advanced knowledge of Informix in-cluding special internal certification (OnLine-3) and knowledge of proprietary source code
• Promoted to team leader
• Identified training-weak areas and initiated and authored yearlong training program. Program specialized in advanced HTML, advanced web servers and the Informix web datablade
• Applied combination of hardware and software knowledge of Unix, NT, RDBMS, datablades, C, GUI and X interfaces along with proven technical problem solving skills
• Applied time and customer management skills, written customer services and verbal business communication skills to balance casework
• Utilized product knowledge to provide technical assistance to other engineers

• Responded to and gave telephone support for multiple platforms
• Selected to be Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a customer designed Intranet application originally written by Netscape and Microsoft programmers
• Developed a segment of the application for the Sprint Chairman Quality Award that is modeled after the Malcom Baldridge National Quality Award
• Selected to be on the Business Process Improvement (BPI) team and helped develop BPI documentation
• Coached other associates in mentoring program

Certification, Unix/Linux Certification

Computer Science, Computer Science