Google Cloud Architect helping deliver in-depth workshops and handle pre-sales escalations for customers across North America. SME for Kubernetes, service mesh, serverless, CI/CD, and Anthos.

Google Cloud Engineer focused on helping large/strategic Retail customers make the best use of public and private cloud solutions. SME for Kubernetes, serverless, and Anthos.

I have been a senior member of the Release Engineering and now Systems Engineering Infra teams, focused on the InfraRed Kubernetes platform at Reddit. I have helped migrate large parts of our infrastructure to Kubernetes, build/troubleshoot core systems across the stack (CDN, DNS, LBs, Control Plane, Service Mesh, Databases, Python/Golang, AWS/Terraform) and am the DevOps liaison for Special Projects and Economy teams. I have helped train development teams on-boarding with InfraRed, and I participated as a mentor in our Grow And Improve New Skills (GAINS) program for junior/mid-level developers.

The Edge Foundation organization manages the CDN/DNS/Tier 1 HTTP ingress for all Walmart eCommerce properties and provides additional services like Edge Compute and Asset Optimization. As part of the operations team I support deployments across multiple private cloud data centers and multiple public cloud regions/providers. My responsibilities are:- Part of a 24/7 on-call rotation for a "top 15" web property- Designed and implemented our Azure public cloud infrastructure for WAF / Tier 1 Ingress- Maintained our Prometheus stack and NSQ based message bus for HTTP logs/metrics- Assisted in troubleshooting GSLB (geo/policy DNS LB) and Tier 2 SLB issues in our custom software solutions- Automated on-prem and cloud deployments using SaltStack, Terraform, and Azure ARM- Helped manage a fleet of hundreds of reverse proxy Ubuntu servers used by dozens of ingress domains with thousands of backend services- Onsite for Black Friday / Cyber Monday events, and often involved remotely for P1/P2 issues and Postmortems

SRE keep Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network online and make sure things run fast, secure, and smooth. My responsibilities are:- Part of a 24/7 on-call rotation covering all on-prem application/server/network systems for a "top 30" web property- Help design and implement our Bosun monitoring system and maintain the Windows and Linux versions of our Scollector monitoring agent- Rewrote our PowerShell Desired State Configuration system for managing Windows Servers to use WMF 5.1 and Partial Configurations- Perform maintenance and upgrades on our SQL Server Availability Groups and Data Warehouse (in total over 40TB)- Manage TeamCity build server, IIS web servers, Redis servers, and HAProxy load balancers. Also help manage AD/DNS/DFS/MDT/DHCP/Hypervisors.- Help maintain our Fastly CDN/WAF/rate limiting implementation- Perform infrastructure on boarding training for new developers and help troubleshoot critical performance, stability, and security issues

Full stack web/sql/application developer working on the 360 Encompass software that uses NLP to assists hospitals with coding medical records for reimbursement with ICD9/ICD10. Key projects that I have been involved in are:-Streamlining and redesigning SAML token based Single-Sign-On system using WIF 3.5 and Security Token Service consumed by multiple components in 360 Encompass.-Leading the redesign of all component installers away from MSI/Custom actions to instead use Powershell workflows, Web Deploy, and WMI based remote execution.-Help design the load balancing architecture for high availability of the 360 Encompass web and application tiers.-Fully automated the TFS and MSBuild compilation, packaging, and deployment process using Powershell and WinRM.-Lead system administrator for creating and maintaining all dev/qa/integration server environments. Also maintained Citrix environment for QA testing.-Help design automated testing framework using Nunit, Powershell, Autoit, and various other testing tools.-Aided in tracking down and resolving numerous customer issues using development and system administration tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, IIS FRT, Sysinternals, DebugDiag, Linqpad, Reflector, SQL Tracing, etc.

I currently work on the Engineering Services team in the Murray office and focus on automating system deployment and improving our engineering experience. Projects include:-Setup an End to End test lab using Active Directory, Hyper-V, System Center (VMM, SCOM, SCCM, SCO), MDT/WDS deployment servers, WSUS, and DFS with off-site replication.-Improved system deployment using MDT images and silent installation of all application tiers (ADFS, SQL, SharePoint, Visual Studio, etc).-Troubleshoot performance and networking issues on both virtual and physical hardware.-Assist IT Services with local and remote engineering lab hardware management.-Extensive automation using Powershell scripting and remote management tools.-Streamlined "multi-box" clustered server installations with network load balancing (NLB) and fail-over clustering (FOC).-Helped provide documentation and training for multiple internal development teams..

I worked on the Quality Improvement team for the Qualibria Clinical Knowledge Solution developing automation scripts for system deployment and testing.-Managed 100+ RHEL/Oracle servers using cobbler / kickstarts / KVM / custom dashboard-Wrote extensive BASH scripts to reduce deployment time and standardize install process-Setup LDAP/STS/XACML based authentication and authorization system for test lab-Helped configure NIS / Kerberos based domain logins for lab usersAlso helped setup and execute performance tests on High Availability production grade systems to verify that software meet HL7 message processing throughput requirements and Service Level Agreements..

Worked as the IT Manager for a small mental health outcome assessment company managing the technical support department for their OQ Analyst software product and maintaining all the servers for their SaaS product. I helped develop and refine business requirements for system proposals and was the technical liaison between the customers/management and 3rd party software developers. I created a functional test framework using WatiN that was used to validate each new release of the software and was responsible for developing and maintaining all of the internal LOB applications and websites.