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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Doylestown, Pa, Us

Special Ops to shift the direction of the department on a short timelineTemporarily assuming roles of functional and technical team lead for DevSecOps team in a focused short-term engagement intended to shift the direction of the department to better align with business goals and stated security and compliance requirements* Kickstart Infrastructure as Code practices* Migrate SDLC to containers

Doylestown, Pa, Us

Advise leadership team on * technical direction and technology selection * security issues, resolutions and prevention * talent pipeline

San Francisco, California, Us

* Remediated 100s of thousands of reported security vulnerabilities (many duplicates reported due to autoscaling infrastructure) by refactoring all docker and virtual machine builds to pull from golden image w/ automatic updates (received letter of recognition for excellent work on this project)* Contributed, maintained GoLang CLI tool for automation and developer self-service* Reduced time of QA env Elastic Search data restore from 12 hours to several minutes and maintained backwards compatibility in platform tooling (Golang CLI -> Buildkite API) when migrating to new system

New York, Ny, Us

* network egress control with Squid* experimental implementation of custom CNI plugin for Nomad for distributed egress control* managed on-prem VMs via Proxmox and EC2 VMs in AWS* refactored ansible code to allow easier provisioning of complex NGINX configurations by applying factory pattern like semantics to NGINX configuration snippets

New York, Ny, Us

Create, maintain internal-facing platform tooling for developer workflowsThe Kubernetes and The Helm The DockersCI/CD configuration and integration (Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)AWS resource management patterns in code and process (reusable Terraform modules)On-call rotation for developer assistanceMonitoring on-call and incident response / remediation (plus automating the future incident resolutions)Groovy code for parsing YAML into Jenkins jobs, allowing management of jenkins jobs as YAML in arbitrary github reposSecurity incident remediationSecurity Appliance configuration (AlienVault/AT&T)Code review, code review, coooooddee rreevvviiieeewww. (also: code reviews)Interviews and assessments of potential new hiresResolve production incidents involving undocumented distributed applications

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Kickstarted Infrastructure as Code practices with TerraformHIPAA Compliance Enforcement of AWS resources and infrastructureMigrating Chef to AnsibleArtifact-Based Jenkins PipelinesOn Call RotationPerformance Testing and scaling out and up of application architecture and infrastructure

New York City, Ny, Us

Developed opensource project "Heet" for python-based AWS infrastructure provisioningRefactored deployment processes; created artifact-based patterns for cross-team coherenceMigrated existing CoLo systems to AWS EC2 with Heet and puppetWrote, maintained VCL code for Varnish Cache (90%+ Hit Rate)Administration of Akamai-based CDNFirst point of contact for several developer teamsFirst responder to security events/ analyzing and neutralizing real time threats1-2 days a week 24x7 pagerduty 1st contact, 1-2 days 2nd contact, 1-2 days 3rd contact, 24x7 4th contact

Designed a system and marketplace-based revenue model in the music production space

New York, Ny, Us

Led infrastructure as code initiativeCreated AWS automation workflows with PythonWhitelabel reselling product technical implementationVarnish VCLConfiguration Management with Chef

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Managed budget with Computer Science Director's oversightManaged 2 direct reportsDesigned and built high performance linux-based clusters for statistical analytical research of biometricsReported directly to the Director Of Computer ScienceMet with professors and researchers to feel out their needs and implement solutions

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Designed and implemented long term backup solution with Solaris, ZFS, tape and BaculaImplemented password change web page with Kerberos C APIs, PHP and cgiRoot access on systems for the entire school of sciences

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Helped manage system of 60+ NetBSD workstations and 12+ servers plus Cisco networking devices including NFS fileservers and tape robot programmed backupsPerformed and managed key distribution for initial IPSec deployment as well as necessary configuration to NetBSD nodes in our networkAssisted Systems Administrator with various tasks as requested

Houston, Tx, Us

Worked with the Network Administrators to help them utilize Linux-based solutions in their existing Windows-based network.