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Austin, TX, US

• Spearheaded the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline that enabled the team to transition from bi-weekly deploys to daily deploys, with the added option for on-demand releases.
• Architected new API endpoints (following the OpenAPI specification) to support newintegrations with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) providers.
• Responsible for subscription billing framework (integration with Recurly and Braintree).
• Transitioned to trunk-based development to streamline the development process and promote collaboration across teams.
• Implemented feature flag tooling with improved UI and syncing between environments, allowing for more efficient testing and deployment.
• Set up sanitized and production-like environments, ensuring that the software is tested in environments that are representative of the production system.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Spearheaded feature development and platform maintenance/optimization, including extensive Ruby on Rails and Node.js development on Heroku and AWS Lambda platforms.Notable accomplishments:
• Successfully reduced Heroku and AWS costs by more than half, while maintaining the same level of performance and availability.
• Led the development effort to make Swarm platform available as a self-service application, integrated with Recurly for subscription-based billing.
• Migrated databases from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS Aurora (PostgreSQL).
• Engineered NodeJS backend that used Puppeteer (Headless Chrome) to spin up browser sessions responsible for hosting real-time Swarm sessions, resulting in improved performance and enhanced user experience.
• Automated account provisioning, including siloed databases for each tenant, leading to significant time and cost savings.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Managed and led the Engineering and DevOps teams responsible for designing and maintaining J2EE and Node.js applications running on AWS, utilizing various services such as EC2, VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, RDS, CloudFront, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, SES, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache.Transitioned in-house subscription billing systems to.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Notable accomplishments:
• Successfully spearheaded the migration of web and database tiers from physical hardware to AWS, resulting in improved scalability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Helped transition all development teams to Agile methodology.
• Migrated repositories from Subversion to Git.
• Implemented continuous integration using Bamboo.
• Implemented new search infrastructure with Solr 6.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of a high traffic web site.Notable accomplishments:
• Co-created dRACKula, a SAAS product aimed to help users manage the racks at their datacenters
• Engineered fault-tolerant infrastructure for dRACKula using nginx, php-fpm, and PostgreSQL
• Implemented Node.js infrastructure to use for real-time web applications, such as notifications and chat
• Integrated a Content Delivery Network into a JSP web application
• Created a web frontend and backend for automated content rollouts to test and production servers

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Responsible for keeping a high traffic website running 24/7.Notable accomplishments:
• Deployed SSL accelerators running nginx designed to support the secure traffic of hundreds of sites
• Automated the builds of a Java code base with builds triggered by commits to a Subversion repository
• Assisted in the deployment of a standalone remote datacenter for a full Java web stack running on FreeBSD
• Created various web-based tools and charts to help with server monitoring
• Created localized FreeBSD ports tree infrastructure for managing and distributing custom FreeBSD packages

Created a social bookmarking app using CakePHP on top of a MySQL database.