Jared Keith Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

I have launched several platforms for Xcel Energy. A Jenkins, Sonarcube, Artifactory, Spinnaker for a greenfield Kubernetes platform, Xcel Energies first Container environment. I launched a Gitlab CICD platform that ran off of AWS EKS and used Fargate to cheaply run 10's of thousands of jobs for less than 30 dollars a month. I launched a 2nd container platform that uses Argocd, Helm, Helmfile, Kaniko Crossplane, Cert Manager, External DNS, Kubed. This platform fully automates Container platforming. Along this long road I have automated 100's of pipelines for a vast array of technologies. I have taught SRE skills from agents on clusters exporting metrics to synthetics constantly querying health of apps and dashboards to capture the data. I have brought in load testing frameworks, testing frameworks and converted old flaky frameworks to modern container solutions. AI is changing the way platform engineers work and I have fully embraced all the facets of how it accelerates me. I have demo'd value weekly to large groups, and have given conference talks at large cloud events. I have had a blog published by AWS about some of my fargate setups. I have lead teams small and large, and have elevated all whole interact with me. I feel I have pushed for several teams members to move up and beyond their traditional skill sets. Working with apprentices, mid level, senior, lead, director, vp level folks I defined roadmaps that transform the way business is done. Xcel Energy trusted me to set the vision and my teams have succeeded time and time again constantly receiving internal awards. The path I set forward has transformed Xcel Energy, and my teams have done this through dogged and relentless pursuit of excellence. What once was an experiment for Xcel is now just the way we do business.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Xcel is ambitious diving into a Cloud platform, pushing Devops/Secops/Gitops/SRE principles, Agile transformation and Micro service containers on K8s, all at once. I'm privileged to play Lead Devops role on this journey with them. I'm helping via direction/collaboration/hands on, ensuring project delivery with people, processes and tools.

Orange County, Ca, Us

I helped build out the Developer Tooling Service department at Weedmaps, the SRE role is one part of that department. I helped hire and train the new fleet of SREs at Weedmaps. My goal as a SRE is to help developers via observing their applications, reducing toil, streamlining logging, Implementing tools such as synthetic monitoring amongst other practices. We use tools(automation), methods(culture), best practices(documentation) to achieve these things.

Orange County, Ca, Us

As a Build and Release engineer at Weedmaps, I maintained all Core stacks and repos. I controlled the vigorous build and deployment schedule, however my main focus was on process implementation and process evolution. I helped the team move from monolith, fragile and snowflake build and deploy flows, to a much more consistent and repeatable build and deploy flow. As Weedmaps first B&R engineer I had many things to implement such as; Release schedules, Branching and Merging methods, formal cut lines, Environments used and deployed to, defining CI/CD pipelines, internal/external comm's, testing methodology, Monitoring, Service level Indicators, Performance testing, build tooling, and that's a short list. I took them from loose standards and many methods, to a consolidated and portable build and deploy workflow. By making a portable build and deploy system we eliminate the need for build and release engineers and allow Weedmaps to scale with as many repos as they would like.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

I helped refine the company's CI/CD processes. I believe release engineering is all about adhering to as simple and coherent a process as possible. I started with process documentation. Having the necessary documentation makes audits a breeze. ULS is in the financial sector so passing audits are crucial to keeping the entire company in business. The documents I created were a very central focus of these audits. Next I moved to the SDLC process inserting check points into the Dev, RM, QA and PM Fields. I then moved to versioning methods to maintain proper versions on all of our apps, frontend and backend. This helps to deploy any setup of code ULS desired with no doubts of what we're deploying. I implemented automated build and deployments using TFS release management suite in conjunction with custom PowerShell scripts. This helped with the volume of releases, deploying multiple applications every day to several environments. This in turn locks down the release process so we know what's being released and we eliminate human error, no more sshing onto servers to manually deploy. I helped the team transition to TFS; this will helped with the source control management and with the automated build/deployment process.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Quality Assurance Engineer for various on going projects. I work on many different types of projects from embedded software on devices, to front end websites and back end services. I work on iOS and Android mainly on the device side.

• I Create modules to be used in all aspects of gaming from the actual characters, to the landscape, to the structures on the map.• Technical Design Engineering, implementing 3D applications to create online real time gaming world. That is maintained and supported to meet project guidelines. Tools used; AutoCAD, 3Dmax, 3D coat, Adobe Photoshop. • I have design control and direction and help our writers by creating demo worlds so they can apply story lines to said Characters/Landscapes/Structures.• I create all the animation used in the modules for special effects to character movements.• I run through all modules and QA all aspects to ensure they are ready for use by customers.• Project lead, maintaining communication with team to ensure writers and engineers are working together. Communication and tracking tools used Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Bug Tracker, Jira, SQL server 2005, Go to meeting, MS Outlook. • QA analyst Lead checking the multiple front end and backend services we have. Ensuring quality throughout all systems such as FTP sites, Web sites, Forums, Real world gaming tester, new design review, SQL data management for games and web sites.

Lakewood, Co, Us

I was a QA Engineer for 24tru working full time on their qualitative research platform. I enjoyed helping them transition fully into Agile. I'm also refined their SDLC by Implementing QA processes to protect the code pipeline.• I used Linux SSH/PUTTY to set up testing environments. I helped set up Rspec and CircleCI for continuous integration testing hooked through GIT. This helped get some of the manual QA process slimmed down on the front end and the continuous integration on the backend kept the build process honest and visible.• Set up Testing Architecture and move them from Gdocs to Test Rail which has made creating test metrics, linking defects to failed cases, spotting gaps in test coverage and running regression testing much more manageable. This was a huge effort and an important one as we released software every week. I have brought in some nice process docs like: test plans, test case templates and defect entry guidelines. • Refine their Agile process by defining teams and sprint life cycles. I worked with their product team to get formal product design meetings that included the dev team. This creates a better built product/feature, as full team has say in the initial design. With the product team I defined formal acceptance process for them on production ready features in demos, creating an extra layer of assurance that our feature is what our product team actually envisioned. I also helped define scoping methods for production issues.• Refine Release and Deploy process, focusing on branching and building a pre production environment to stage things.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Quality Assurance Engineer working on file transfer and file conversion validation. I work on weekly and hourly data validation for stock markets within the financial world. I also worked on a new data model used to create these stock market metrics.

Denver, Co, Us

I was a QA Consultant for Satellite based Work and Order Management company for mobile devices. I wrote regression test suites for main applications, defined customer environment set up permutations, defined certification plan for platform, enacted plan and certified version upgrade. Working in a Windows/Windows Mobile environment we used GPS based mobile applications to track work/orders

Worked as Regional Lead QA (US region) for large world wide media company.Controlled all aspects of country wide QA. From what projects were prioritized and worked on, communication to HQ in Madrid, to creating all process documentation and Test Case suites. Trained all QA resources on all aspects of company wide projects, methodologies, and processes. Controlled• Met all timelines with fewer resources and higher QA standards.• Implemented all QA processes in Miami when office moved from Denver.• Created migration plan to move entire US 'bare metal' Infrastructure set up from Denver to Miami along with testing strategy. Communicated Testing plan to all customers to ensure data integrity for customer confidence.• Maintain and manage QA BREW team to ensure proper work is preformed up to standards.• Created and updated Test Cases using BRDs to ensure new products were fully tested along every path and old products with new features were solid for our customers.• Testing methods - White Box, Gray Box, Black Box, Functional, Regression, Unit, Component, Integration, Usability, Performance, Load, Smoke, and Penetration. • Worked as a direct trouble shooting resource for partners around the world to ensure all issues were resolved quickly and with minimal downtime for our partners.• Worked as the final QA resource to package, document and submit applications to 3rd party testing labs. This is a very high pressure position that requires extreme diligence in details.• Works with Account managers, Project managers, Developers, Leads, Managers and C level using superb communications to work seamlessly with different personality types.• Worked on multiple platforms using multiple languages such as Web, CDMA, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, C, C#, Java, XML and HTML. • Used many project tracking systems such as Daptiv, SharePoint, VS and TFS to track all work and projects. • Created all UAT documentation for third parties for multiple platforms.

Worked as a Chemical engineer developing new types of epoxys and paint.Worked as in field QC trouble shooting and diagnosing the product issues, pairing with in house engineers to refine formulas.

Estimating all types of Jobs from large commercial HVAC installs in mines to smaller more custom home based metal work.Spent a large deal of time going over resource metrics to ensure project scope. Had a great eye for what it would take to complete project, lowering material waste and labor ty-up.

Designed AutoCAD blueprints for construction jobs ranging from large Civil Projects to smaller custom home designs.Helped build all designs created, ensured all specs were built as designed.Worked as in field QC so I could see where design flaws were if any and recreated blueprints to accommodate on field adjustments. Made for lower downtime on projects due to blueprint issues.

Aas, Mechanical Engineering

Aas, Architectural Engineering